REAL ESTATE WEEKLY by LINDA O’FLANAGAN – December 23, 2010 – Partners with Colony Capital, WL Ross & Co and Mount Kellett to target distressed real estate The Cogsville Group, LLC and Colony Capital, LLC have closed on the purchase…

REAL ESTATE FINANCE AND INVESTMENT – December 22, 2010 – A partnership between The Cogsville Group and Colony Capital has purchased two more non-performing and performing loan portfolios from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The partnership purchased the steeply discounted…

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION  – December 21, 2010 – The Cogsville Group Participates as an Equity Partner The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has closed on a sale of a 40 percent equity interest in a newly-formed limited liability company…

AMERICAN BANKER by DONALD P. COGSVILLE – November 9, 2010 – Donald P. Cogsville is founder and chief executive of The Cogsville Group LLC, a private-equity and advisory firm. Minority banks have a central role to play in our nation’s…

THE COMMERCIAL OBSERVER  by JOTHAM SEDERSTROM – September 7, 2010 – Since 2007, the Cogsville Group has aligned itself with some of the largest development projects and distressed assets in the nation, including Brooklyn’s 46-building Starrett City complex. A former…

WALL STREET JOURNAL  by LINGLING WEI – July 14, 2010 – The FDIC retained the remaining 60% and offered seven-year, zero-interest financing to the Colony-Cogsville group, which reduces the venture’s upfront cash input to $218 million. This deal is the…

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION  – July 14, 2010 – FDIC Selects Colony Capital as Winning Bidder for Equity Interest in $1.85 Billion in Commercial Real Estate Loans The Cogsville Group Participates as Junior Equity Partner The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation…

CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS by AARON ELSTEIN – March 17, 2009 – Stymied in his attempt to acquire Starrett City when the federally subsidized housing complex was taken off the market earlier this year, financier Donald Cogsville is trying something…

THE NEW YORK TIMES by CHARLES V. BAGLI – February 18, 2009 – The owners of Starrett City, the country’s largest federally subsidized housing complex, have abandoned their heady dream of selling the property for more than a billion dollars.…

THE NEW YORK TIMES by CHARLES V. BAGLI  – December 20, 2008 – The owners of Starrett City, the sprawling low- and moderate-income housing complex on Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, are negotiating with the finalist in the bidding to buy…