Marie-Theresa Reichmann says that they might receive four or five government directives in a week.

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Reichmann's family, the high-flying Canadian developers of the 1980s, currently own about 6.5 percent of Canary Warf.

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Gerald Hines turned down London's Canary Wharf, which later bankrupted Canada's Reichmann family: He thought there wasn't enough mass transit serving the site.

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Gerald Hines turned down London's Canary Wharf, which later bankrupted Canada's Reichmann family: He thought there wasn't enough mass transit to serve the site.

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Canary Wharf, which was saved from bankruptcy in the 1990s by the Reichmann family and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, was floated on the London stock exchange in June 1999.

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