by a fund affiliated with Brookfield Asset Management. 2020s In September 2020, the company's retail group announced a layoff of 20% of its workforce of about 2,000 people. Zuccotti Park The company is the owner of Zuccotti Park, a publicly accessible park adjacent to one of its office buildings near Wall Street in the Manhattan borough of New York City, that in September 2011 became a site of protests by Occupy Wall Street. On October 11, 2011, Richard Clark, the company's CEO, sent a letter to NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly requesting to "clear the park" as its use by Occupy Wall Street "violates the law, violates the rules of the Park, deprives the community of its rights of quiet enjoyment to the Park, and creates health and public safety issues." The request was later withdrawn. On November 15, 2011, at around 1:00 a.m., the NYPD went in and cleared the park citing alleged health and safety hazards caused by the protestors. Later that morning, Judge Lucy Billings issued a court order for the NYPD to allow the protesters back into the park. That injunction was subsequently lifted by the NY Supreme Court and the police were allowed to keep the park cleared of tents at the request of Brookfield Properties. See also List of Brookfield Properties shopping malls List of real estate companies of Canada Boston Properties Silverstein Properties Inc. Vornado Realty Trust Cadillac Fairview Oxford Properties Green Parking Council Olympia and York – former firm from which many properties now belong to Brookfield References External links Brookfieldproperties.com – official website Brookfield Asset Management Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange Companies based in Manhattan Companies based in Toronto Property management companies Real estate companies of Canada Real estate companies of the United States Companies formerly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange Real estate companies established in 1923 1923 establishments in Quebec Canadian companies established in 1923