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I agree with you, the silence makes one begin to wonder but if the deal were dead I think we would have heard that PR by now. So I will go with the saying - "Silence is Golden".
Well the PPS hasn't reacted a bit to any news. What I posted in an email I received from Pinhead was that he was saying try not to concentrate on the PPS but rather what is in your porfolio. Don't exactly know what he has planned so I will buy a few down at these pathetic levels and hope for the best. I wasted alot of time with Ralphy and will not leave until I feel I beat him.
Maronti: Go back a few posts and read icurnonittwo post # 18266 to you. I agree with the post although I don't think they would wait until the olympics are over if the deal is finalized and all parties are ready to move forward. Olympics are huge for them but business is business and bottom lines are more important than gold medals.
Appreciate a morning L2 snapshot before bell. It's storming here and my computer is acting strange.
jscot: Thanks for stopping by and giving the boardmark. I am sure when all is said and done that you will be purchasing shares in BCND. Either that or IMO you simply don't understand what is happening here as the story unfolds. Nobody is making anything out to be bigger than it is.
Beacon is buying multi-faceted properties with huge revenue potential. The main focus is to salvage/refurbish old and existing structures before building state of the art facilities on the property. The special surprise we all received is that Adam is buying those properties and then some. He is buying properties with other revenue sources such as natural gas and timber and the like. Why not use those resources to fund the projects. IMO it's a win, win for all of us.
Agreed, can't wait for the PR that states that he has selected the salvaging company on Westmoreland, the price they agreed upon and that the dismantling of those fine Chicago bricks are underway! :)
Not sure but don't think a name change will have any reflection on the PPS other than when all the paperwork settles.
Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation Agrees to Acquire an Additional 134.5 Acre Tract of Land in West Virginia
Monday August 11, 2008 12:23:00 EDT
NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa., Aug 11, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ --
Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation (OTC:BCND) today announced it has agreed to acquire an additional 134.5 acre tract of land in Lewis County, West Virginia that adjoins its previously announced acquisition of 125 acres at the same location.
This additional acquisition will bring the company's holdings to a total of 259.5 acres of land in the area, including natural gas rights (of which wells are currently operating) along with vast timber/logging rights, the company as always will take advantage of favorable financing terms that were offered and with more than one profit center. The new properties are located in the same area as the previously announced acquisition about ten miles from interstate 79 and are right off US 119/33 and have easy access to all major highways.
Beacon Redevelopment has agreed (on this acquisition) not to disclose the terms and price of the acquisition, this request has come from the seller and was a major factor in the negotiations and included in the contract.
"The company and I are very pleased to have been able to acquire these additional parcels as they fit right into our business plan of acquiring properties in this location that offer more then one area of revenue," said Adam Marek, President.
Mr. Marek also stated "It is the intent of the company to acquire land with additional resources (assets that could be sold) that will enable the company to pay for the land free and clear and then the company will develop said property with huge profit margins, to this point I believe we are on the right track."
About Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation:
Beacon specializes in acquiring undervalued properties that offer the potential for above average return on investment along with multiple assets and development ability at distressed prices, the properties must offer recyclable/salvageable materials along with the potential for redevelopment and or desirable development potential; the company also seeks along with the above for mentioned, properties that have the possibility for governmental grants, tax rebates or deferments as part of their criteria for acquisition. Please visit the company's website at www.beaconredevelopment.com for all the latest information and updates.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation Agrees to Acquire an Additional 134.5 Acre Tract of Land in West Virginia
Monday August 11, 2008 12:23:00 EDT
NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa., Aug 11, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ --
Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation (OTC:BCND) today announced it has agreed to acquire an additional 134.5 acre tract of land in Lewis County, West Virginia that adjoins its previously announced acquisition of 125 acres at the same location.
This additional acquisition will bring the company's holdings to a total of 259.5 acres of land in the area, including natural gas rights (of which wells are currently operating) along with vast timber/logging rights, the company as always will take advantage of favorable financing terms that were offered and with more than one profit center. The new properties are located in the same area as the previously announced acquisition about ten miles from interstate 79 and are right off US 119/33 and have easy access to all major highways.
Beacon Redevelopment has agreed (on this acquisition) not to disclose the terms and price of the acquisition, this request has come from the seller and was a major factor in the negotiations and included in the contract.
"The company and I are very pleased to have been able to acquire these additional parcels as they fit right into our business plan of acquiring properties in this location that offer more then one area of revenue," said Adam Marek, President.
Mr. Marek also stated "It is the intent of the company to acquire land with additional resources (assets that could be sold) that will enable the company to pay for the land free and clear and then the company will develop said property with huge profit margins, to this point I believe we are on the right track."
About Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation:
Beacon specializes in acquiring undervalued properties that offer the potential for above average return on investment along with multiple assets and development ability at distressed prices, the properties must offer recyclable/salvageable materials along with the potential for redevelopment and or desirable development potential; the company also seeks along with the above for mentioned, properties that have the possibility for governmental grants, tax rebates or deferments as part of their criteria for acquisition. Please visit the company's website at www.beaconredevelopment.com for all the latest information and updates.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
Agreed! Slow and steady will be healthy in the long run.
The deal is that peeps were loading 1's for weeks and months. Some accumulated 50-100 million shares. It's normal to take some profit but keep a nice chunk of shares in the portfolio for later. Once they flip some shares it should settle and have a nice steady rise.
This guy is amazing :) EOM
BCND action with volume, .0002 X .0003 day high .0004 last opportunity to load bargain prices. Read the PR's and enjoy the positive vibe of the BCND board and you will understand why this gem will be the next darling of da street.
BCND action with volume today, .0002 X .0003 day high .0004 last chance to load at bargain prices
Movin' on up just like George Jefferson
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Show them threes some more love and move to 4's
Let's hope this is the start of a new era for PGPM. I for one would vote to change the name to Arcland. Too many bad memories with Pilgrim.
Nice to see the 3 X 4's back. IMO MM's let somebody load 2's and should let her run a bit. GLTA
I agree, would love to see 4's today, hopefully the exposure on Globest.com will bring many new investors our way. GLTA.
Waiting for funds to clear for 2's?? You were grabbing 3's over a month ago, did you not realize the potential at that time?
SMACK THE ASK
I agree, I would think if Raphael wants to be treated as a true player now that PGPM is moving up to a new exchange that he would have to start hitting some of his self imposed deadlines. He has been notorious for missing them in the past. One recent PR stated first week of August and a second I believe he mentioned mid August. I would hope an update is forthcoming buy mid week. GLTA. If not, he will be bombarded with my morning emails.
Yes, BCND already owns the land. After salvaging/recycling they will build state of the art industrial parks which will be managed via their subsidiary Beacon Holdings. Win, win all around.
ROFL: Good stuff bro', or 200 natural gas tanks @ $15 a pop for the annual pink sheets barbeque.
MM's signaling they need shares
So far Adam has been incredibly transparent, has been a man of his word, has the shareholders best interest at stake. He has a great business plan and a great vision for where he wants to take his company. Kudos to Adam!
And on that land they will redevelop state of the art industrial parks that will be managed by Beacon Holdings.
Here is your answer re: adamblue
Posted by: adamblue1 Date: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:24:13 PM
In reply to: hokifan38 who wrote msg# 14788 Post # of 18177
im a 21 year old day trader and have only 300k shares....want to put some money in another stock this afternoon and buy ltdi later cause its going to be low for a while. i have my limit in at .0006 right now on scottrade and its not going through.
A newbie who is probably broke by now!!!
Patience and timing kids, patience and timing NUFF SAID!
The Palo Duro Basin is located in the Texas Panhandle district and is bound on the north by the Amarillo-Wichita Uplift in Oklahoma, to the south by the Matador Arch-Permian Basin in West Texas. The Palo Duro Basin prospect, which is currently being evaluated for further development, has been compared to the Barnett Shale discovery. Barnett Shale is estimated to contain some 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Management believes Palo Duro could prove to be one of the largest natural gas deposits in North America.
Info on leases are covered on the companies website:
http://www.apetroleum.com/index-2.html
I agree, I don't like the way the MM's are playing with this right now but as soon as the buying pressure increases they will have no choice but to let her run. .0005 would be a nice start but I see BCND a solid play and looking for much higher returns.
There’s a form of the securities fraud known as naked short selling that is becoming very popular and lucrative to the market makers that practice it. It is known as “Cellar boxing” and it has to do with the fact that the NASD and the SEC had to arbitrarily set a minimum level at which a stock can trade. This level was set at $.0001 or one-one hundredth of a penny. This level is appropriately referred to as “the cellar”. This $.0001 level can be used as a "backstop" for all kinds of market maker and naked short selling manipulations.
“Cellar boxing” has been one of the security frauds du jour since 1999 when the market went to a “decimalization” basis. In the pre-decimalization days the minimum market spread for most stocks was set at 1/8th of a dollar and the market makers were guaranteed a healthy “spread”. Since decimalization came into effect, those one-eighth of a dollar spreads now are often only a penny as you can see in Microsoft’s quote throughout the day. Where did the unscrupulous MMs go to make up for all of this lost income? They headed "south" to the OTCBB and Pink Sheets where the protective effects from naked short selling like Rule 10-a, and NASD Rules 3350, 3360, and 3370 are nonexistent.
The unique aspect of needing an arbitrary “cellar” level is that the lowest possible incremental gain above this cellar level represents a 100% spread available to MMs making a market in these securities. When compared to the typical spread in Microsoft of perhaps four-tenths of 1%, this is pretty tempting territory. In fact, when the market is no bid to $.0001 offer there is theoretically an infinite spread.
In order to participate in “cellar boxing”, the MMs first need to pummel the price per share down to these levels. The lower they can force the share price, the larger are the percentage spreads to feed off of. This is easily done via garden variety naked short selling. In fact if the MM is large enough and has enough visibility of buy and sell orders as well as order flow, he can simultaneously be acting as the conduit for the sale of nonexistent shares through Canadian co-conspiring broker/dealers and their associates with his right hand at the same time that his left hand is naked short selling into every buy order that appears through its own proprietary accounts. The key here is to be a dominant enough of a MM to have visibility of these buy orders. This is referred to as "broker/dealer internalization" or naked short selling via "desking" which refers to the market makers trading desk. While the right hand is busy flooding the victim company's market with "counterfeit" shares that can be sold at any instant in time the left hand is nullifying any upward pressure in share price by neutralizing the demand for the securities. The net effect becomes no demonstrable demand for shares and a huge oversupply of shares which induces a downward spiral in share price.
In fact, until the "beefed up" version of Rule 3370 (Affirmative determination in writing of "borrowability" by settlement date) becomes effective, U.S. MMs have been "legally" processing naked short sale orders out of Canada and other offshore locations even though they and the clearing firms involved knew by history that these shares were in no way going to be delivered. The question that then begs to be asked is how "the system" can allow these obviously bogus sell orders to clear and settle. To find the answer to this one need look no further than to Addendum "C" to the Rules and Regulations of the NSCC subdivision of the DTCC. This gaping loophole allows the DTCC, which is basically the 11,000 b/ds and banks that we refer to as "Wall Street”, to borrow shares from those investors naive enough to hold these shares in "street name" at their brokerage firm. This amounts to about 95% of us. Theoretically, this “borrow” was designed to allow trades to clear and settle that involved LEGITIMATE 1 OR 2 DAY delays in delivery. This "borrow" is done unbeknownst to the investor that purchased the shares in question and amounts to probably the largest "conflict of interest" known to mankind. The question becomes would these investors knowingly loan, without compensation, their shares to those whose intent is to bankrupt their investment if they knew that the loan process was the key mechanism needed for the naked short sellers to effect their goal? Another question that arises is should the investor's b/d who just earned a commission and therefore owes its client a fiduciary duty of care, be acting as the intermediary in this loan process keeping in mind that this b/d is being paid the cash value of the shares being loaned as a means of collateralizing the loan, all unbeknownst to his client the purchaser.
An interesting phenomenon occurs at these "cellar" levels. Since NASD Rule 3370 allows MMs to legally naked short sell into markets characterized by a plethora of buy orders at a time when few sell orders are in existence, a MM can theoretically "legally" sit at the $.0001 level and sell nonexistent shares all day long because at no bid and $.0001 ask there is obviously a huge disparity between buy orders and sell orders. What tends to happen is that every time the share price tries to get off of the cellar floor and onto the first step of the stairway at $.0001 there is somebody there to step on the hands of the victim corporation's market.
Once a given micro cap corporation is “boxed in the cellar” it doesn’t have a whole lot of options to climb its way out of the cellar. One obvious option would be for it to reverse split its way out of the cellar but history has shown that these are counter-productive as the market capitalization typically gets hammered and the post split share price level starts heading back to its original pre-split level.
Another option would be to organize a sustained buying effort and muscle your way out of the cellar but typically there will, as if by magic, be a naked short sell order there to meet each and every buy order. Sometimes the shareholder base can muster up enough buying pressure to put the market at $.0001 bid and $.0002 offer for a limited amount of time. Later the market makers will typically pound the $.0001 bids with a blitzkrieg of selling to wipe out all of the bids and the market goes back to no bid and $.0001 offer. When the weak-kneed shareholders see this a few times they usually make up their mind to sell their shares the next time that a $.0001 bid appears and to get the heck out of Dodge. This phenomenon is referred to as “shaking the tree” for weak-kneed investors and it is very effective.
At times the market will go to $.0001 bid and $.0003 offer. This sets up a juicy 200% spread for the MMs and tends to dissuade any buyers from reaching up to the "lofty" level of $.0003. If a $.0002 bid should appear from a MM not "playing ball" with the unscrupulous MMs, it will be hit so quickly that Level 2 will never reveal the existence of the bid. The $.0001 bid at $.0003 offer market sets up a "stalemate" wherein market makers can leisurely enjoy the huge spreads while the victim company slowly dilutes itself to death by paying the monthly bills with "real" shares sold at incredibly low levels. Since all of these development-stage corporations have to pay their monthly bills, time becomes on the side of the naked short sellers.
At times it almost seems that the unscrupulous market makers are not actively trying to kill the victim corporation but instead want to milk the situation for as long of a period of time as possible and let the corporation die a slow death by dilution. The reality is that it is extremely easy to strip away 99% of a victim company’s share price or market cap and to keep the victim corporation “boxed“ in the cellar, but it really is difficult to kill a corporation especially after management and the shareholder base have figured out the game that is being played at their expense.
As the weeks and months go by the market makers make a fortune with these huge percentage spreads but the net aggregate naked short positions become astronomical from all of this activity. This leads to some apprehension amongst the co-conspiring MMs. The predicament they find themselves in is that they can’t even stop naked short selling into every buy order that appears because if they do the share price will gap and this will put tremendous pressures on net capital reserves for the MMs and margin maintenance requirements for the co-conspiring hedge funds and others operating out of the more than 13,000 naked short selling margin accounts set up in Canada. And of course covering the naked short position is out of the question since they can’t even stop the day-to-day naked short selling in the first place and you can't be covering at the same time you continue to naked short sell.
What typically happens in these situations is that the victim company has to massively dilute its share structure from the constant paying of the monthly burn rate with money received from the selling of “real” shares at artificially low levels. Then the goal of the naked short sellers is to point out to the investors, usually via paid “Internet bashers”, that with the, let’s say, 50 billion shares currently issued and outstanding, that this lousy company is not worth the $5 million market cap it is trading at, especially if it is just a shell company whose primary business plan was wiped out by the naked short sellers’ tortuous interference earlier on.
The truth of the matter is that the single biggest asset of these victim companies often becomes the astronomically large aggregate naked short position that has accumulated throughout the initial “bear raid” and also during the “cellar boxing” phase. The goal of the victim company now becomes to avoid the 3 main goals of the naked short sellers, namely: bankruptcy, a reverse split, or the forced signing of a death spiral convertible debenture out of desperation. As long as the victim company can continue to pay the monthly burn rate, then the game plan becomes to make some of the strategic moves that hundreds of victim companies have been forced into doing which includes name changes, CUSIP # changes, cancel/reissue procedures, dividend distributions, amending of by-laws and Articles of Corporation, etc. Nevada domiciled companies usually cancel all of their shares in the system, both real and fake, and force shareholders and their b/ds to PROVE the ownership of the old “real” shares before they get a new “real” share. Many also file their civil suits at this time also. This indirect forcing of hundreds of U.S. micro cap corporations to go through all of these extraneous hoops and hurdles as a means to survive, whether it be due to regulatory apathy or lack of resources, is probably one of the biggest black eyes the U.S. financial systems have ever sustained. In a perfect world it would be the regulators that periodically audit the “C” and “D” sub-accounts at the DTCC, the proprietary accounts of the MMs, clearing firms, and Canadian b/ds, and force the buy-in of counterfeit shares, many of which are hiding behind altered CUSIP #s, that are detected above the Rule 11830 guidelines for allowable “failed deliveries” of one half of 1% of the shares issued. U.S. micro cap corporations should not have to periodically “purge” their share structure of counterfeit electronic book entries but if the regulators will not do it then management has a fiduciary duty to do it.
A lot of management teams become overwhelmed with grief and guilt in regards to the huge increase in the number of shares issued and outstanding that have accumulated during their “watch”. The truth however is that as long as management made the proper corporate governance moves throughout this ordeal then a huge number of resultant shares issued and outstanding is unavoidable and often indicative of an astronomically high naked short position and is nothing to be ashamed of. These massive naked short positions need to be looked upon as huge assets that need to be developed. Hopefully the regulators will come to grips with the reality of naked short selling and tactics like "Cellar boxing" and quickly address this fraud that has decimated thousands of U.S. micro cap corporations and the tens of millions of U.S. investors therein.
Call your order in. I have had issues with Scotty in the past but were always kind enough to buy or sell over the phone at the online rate.
BCND NEWS:
Press Release Source: Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation
Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation to Accept Bids for the Salvage and Demolition of its Westmoreland PA Property
Wednesday August 6, 9:58 am ET
NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation (OTC: BCND - News) today announced it will start accepting bids for the salvage and demolition of its Westmoreland PA property.
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The bidding will be open for the last two weeks of this month with the job being awarded to the highest bidder. The company had previously rejected a 5.5 million dollar unsolicited salvage offer for its Westmoreland PA property.
The company believes that the salvageable value of the property/building(s) to be in the range of $15,000,000 to $18,000,000 dollars based upon Beacon's estimates that there are between 9 and 10 million recyclable Chicago bricks that have a wholesale value of 0.50 to 0.75 cents a piece. In addition, Beacon also estimates that there is at least 40,000 tons of recyclable steel with a value (at today's scrap steel prices of $250.00 to $300.00 per ton).
"We want to fast track the demolishing and redevelopment of the Westmoreland site as soon as possible; we also believe that the bidding process will give us the highest price possible for the salvageable materials at the site," said Adam Marek, President.
Mr. Marek also added, "We encourage all capable firms to join the bidding process by contacting our office at (724) 871-7458."
About The Property:
A group of investors built the factory in 1889, and the first glass from the factory was sold in 1890. Historical documents indicate that the factory was purchased because of the natural gas on the land. To this day, natural gas wells exist on the property. It also has rail access that can be utilized once a new complex is built.
Beacon PA recognizes the historical impact of the former Westmoreland Glass Company factory and is investigating the feasibility of creating a commemorative brick to collectors with a notarized certificate of authenticity. The Westmoreland Glass Company factory is a famous facility and its glass is the subject of two separate collector organizations. The Westmoreland Glass Society (http://www.westmorelandglassclubs.org) and the National Westmoreland Glass Collectors Club (http://www.westmorelandglassclub.org) members monitor and collect Westmoreland Glass. Therefore, we believe that we should offer such a program to collectors.
About Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation
Beacon specializes in acquiring undervalued deteriorating properties that offer the potential for above average return on investment. The properties must offer recyclable/salvageable materials along with the potential for redevelopment; the company also seeks along with the aforementioned properties the possibility for governmental grants, tax rebates or deferments as part of their criteria for acquisition. Please visit the company's website at http://www.beaconredevelopment.com for all the latest information and updates.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
BCND NEWS: This guy is brilliant!
Press Release Source: Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation
Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation to Accept Bids for the Salvage and Demolition of its Westmoreland PA Property
Wednesday August 6, 9:58 am ET
NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation (OTC: BCND - News) today announced it will start accepting bids for the salvage and demolition of its Westmoreland PA property.
ADVERTISEMENT
The bidding will be open for the last two weeks of this month with the job being awarded to the highest bidder. The company had previously rejected a 5.5 million dollar unsolicited salvage offer for its Westmoreland PA property.
The company believes that the salvageable value of the property/building(s) to be in the range of $15,000,000 to $18,000,000 dollars based upon Beacon's estimates that there are between 9 and 10 million recyclable Chicago bricks that have a wholesale value of 0.50 to 0.75 cents a piece. In addition, Beacon also estimates that there is at least 40,000 tons of recyclable steel with a value (at today's scrap steel prices of $250.00 to $300.00 per ton).
"We want to fast track the demolishing and redevelopment of the Westmoreland site as soon as possible; we also believe that the bidding process will give us the highest price possible for the salvageable materials at the site," said Adam Marek, President.
Mr. Marek also added, "We encourage all capable firms to join the bidding process by contacting our office at (724) 871-7458."
About The Property:
A group of investors built the factory in 1889, and the first glass from the factory was sold in 1890. Historical documents indicate that the factory was purchased because of the natural gas on the land. To this day, natural gas wells exist on the property. It also has rail access that can be utilized once a new complex is built.
Beacon PA recognizes the historical impact of the former Westmoreland Glass Company factory and is investigating the feasibility of creating a commemorative brick to collectors with a notarized certificate of authenticity. The Westmoreland Glass Company factory is a famous facility and its glass is the subject of two separate collector organizations. The Westmoreland Glass Society (http://www.westmorelandglassclubs.org) and the National Westmoreland Glass Collectors Club (http://www.westmorelandglassclub.org) members monitor and collect Westmoreland Glass. Therefore, we believe that we should offer such a program to collectors.
About Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation
Beacon specializes in acquiring undervalued deteriorating properties that offer the potential for above average return on investment. The properties must offer recyclable/salvageable materials along with the potential for redevelopment; the company also seeks along with the aforementioned properties the possibility for governmental grants, tax rebates or deferments as part of their criteria for acquisition. Please visit the company's website at http://www.beaconredevelopment.com for all the latest information and updates.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.
I told you that he would smack it down baby. This guy is as brilliant as I thought he was.!!
GM all, what would send the MM's scrambling this morning would be for Adam to slap down a PR stating that a formal contract has been signed by a new Salvage Contractor for a figure close to the 15-18 mil value and that the dismantling of brick and steel are underway.
# 39 on IHUB actives
Buying distressed undervalued companies with recycling revenue, redevelopment revenue and natural gas revenue.
Doesn't seem like the news has hit many wires yet??
Breharb:
Adam Marek says hello!!!