AZ business exec Sam Grossman "has expanded the
investor group he has assembled to bid on" the Redskins and
Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, according to Heath & Clarke of the
WASHINGTON POST. By adding VA-based AOL CEO & Chair James
Kimsey and VA-based investment advisory firm J.E. Robert
Founder & Chair Joseph Robert Jr., Grossman "considerably
strengthens" his group's collective net worth and local ties
-- "two significant factors for NFL team owners, who must
approve the sale." Kimsey is estimated to have a net worth
of at least $2B, while Robert is considered one of the DC
area's "most successful real estate investors" of the past
decade. Kimsey and Robert join a venture that also includes
FedEx Chair Fred Smith and former Redskins coach Joe Gibbs,
who would serve as a consultant to the team. Grossman:
"We're going to be very aggressive and very rigorous in our
approach to this acquisition. I am going to have my hands
all over that football team." Grossman has said that he
will be the group's "lead partner" (WASHINGTON POST, 4/16).
