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Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned officers
and directors of Forest City Enterprises, Inc., an Ohio corporation ("the
Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints Charles A. Ratner, Thomas G. Smith
and William M. Warren, and each of them, as true and lawful attorney or
attorneys-in-fact for the undersigned, with full power of substitution and
revocation, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, to sign on
his or her behalf as an officer or director of the Company a Registration
Statement or Registration Statements on Form S-8 pursuant to the Securities Act
of 1933 concerning certain Common Shares of the Company to be offered in
connection with the Company's Deferred Compensation Plan for Nonemployee
Directors, and to sign any and all amendments or post-effective amendments to
such Registration Statement(s), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission or any state regulatory authority, granting unto said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform
each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as they might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney or
attorneys-in-fact or any of them or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each
of which shall be deemed an original with respect to the person executing it.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands as of
the 10th day of March, 2000.
/s/ Charles A. Ratner /s/ Brian J. Ratner
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Charles A. Ratner Brian J. Ratner
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Thomas G. Smith /s/ Deborah Ratner Salzberg
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Thomas G. Smith Deborah Ratner Salzberg
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Director
and Secretary
(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ Linda M. Kane /s/ Michael P. Esposito, Jr.
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Linda M. Kane Michael P. Esposito, Jr.
Vice President and Corporate Controller Director
(Principal Accounting Officer)
/s/ Albert B. Ratner /s/ Scott S. Cowen
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Albert B. Ratner Scott S. Cowen
Director Director
/s/ Samuel H. Miller /s/ Jerry V. Jarrett
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Samuel H. Miller Jerry V. Jarrett
Director Director
/s/ James A. Ratner /s/ Stan Ross
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James A. Ratner Stan Ross
Director Director
/s/ Ronald A. Ratner /s/ Joan K. Shafran
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Ronald A. Ratner Joan K. Shafran
Director Director
/s/ Louis Stokes
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Louis Stokes
Director
