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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Form&nbsp;S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, INC.</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>

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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>Delaware</B>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>42-1283895</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(State or other jurisdiction of<BR>
incorporation or organization)
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
Identification No.)</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>110 North Wacker Drive<BR>
Chicago, Illinois</B>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="bottom"><B>60606</B></TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>General Growth 401(k) Savings Plan</B><BR>
(Full title of the plan)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>MR. JOHN BUCKSBAUM<BR>
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER<BR>
GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, INC.<BR>
110 NORTH WACKER DRIVE<BR>
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60606</B><BR>
(Name and address of agent for service)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt">(312)&nbsp;960-5000<BR>
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">class of securities</TD>
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    <TD valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Common Stock (par
value $.01 per
share)(1)(2)
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    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">1,500,000</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">43.62</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">$</TD>
    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">65,430,000</TD>
    <TD nowrap valign="top" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="right" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 1px solid #000000">7,002</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(1)</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The shares of common stock of General Growth Properties, Inc., $.01 par value per
share (the &#147;Common Stock&#148;), being registered hereby include associated preferred share
purchase rights, which attach to and trade with the shares of Common Stock.</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(2)</TD>
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    <TD>Pursuant to Rule&nbsp;416 under the Securities Act of 1933, such amount also covers such
additional number of shares as may be required in the event of a stock dividend, stock
split, recapitalization or other similar event. In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c)
under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate
amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described
herein.</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left">(3)</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance
with Rules 457(c) and (h)&nbsp;of the Securities Act of 1933 and based on the average of the
high and low prices of a share of Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange
on June, 15, 2006.</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>EXPLANATORY STATEMENT</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed to register an additional 1,500,000 shares of
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the &#147;Common Stock&#148;), of General Growth Properties, Inc.
(the &#147;Registrant&#148;) for the General Growth 401(k) Savings Plan, as amended (the &#147;Plan&#148;). The Plan
changed its name from the General Growth Management Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan to
the General Growth 401(k) Savings Plan as of January&nbsp;1, 2006.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">The Registrant previously filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 relating to the Plan with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;) on August&nbsp;30, 1996 (File No.&nbsp;333-11237).
This Registration Statement was prepared in accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8 and,
in accordance therewith, incorporates by reference the previously filed Registration Statement.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>PART II<BR>
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration
Statement:
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    <TD width="3%" nowrap align="left">23.1</TD>
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    <TD>Consent of Deloitte &#038; Touche LLP.</TD>
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    <TD>Consent of KPMG LLP.</TD>
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    <TD width="3%" nowrap align="left">24.1</TD>
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    <TD>Powers of Attorney (included on signature page).</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">The Registrant will submit or has submitted the Plan and any amendments thereto to the Internal
Revenue Service (the &#147;IRS&#148;) in a timely manner and will make all changes required by the IRS in
order to maintain the tax qualified status of the Plan.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, on June&nbsp;15, 2006.
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    <TD colspan="3" align="left"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS"><B>General Growth Properties, Inc.</B></FONT><BR>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
(Registrant)<BR>
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    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">
&nbsp;&nbsp;/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; JOHN BUCKSBAUM
&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="center"><FONT style="font-variant: SMALL-CAPS">John Bucksbaum</FONT>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="center"><I>Chief Executive Officer</I>&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">We, the undersigned officers and directors of General Growth Properties, Inc., hereby severally
constitute John Bucksbaum, Robert Michaels and Bernard Freibaum, and each of them singly, our true
and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our
names in the capacities indicated below, any and all amendments, including post-effective
amendments, to this registration statement, and to sign a new registration statement pursuant to
Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, and generally to do all such things in our name and
behalf in such capacities to enable General Growth Properties, Inc. to comply with the applicable
provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and we hereby ratify and confirm our signatures as they may be signed by our said
attorneys, or any of them, to any and all such amendments.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed on
June&nbsp;15, 2006 by the following persons in the capacities indicated:
</DIV>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ MATTHEW BUCKSBAUM
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Matthew Bucksbaum
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Chairman of the Board</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ JOHN BUCKSBAUM
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John Bucksbaum
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director and Chief Executive Officer<BR>(Principal
Executive Officer)</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ ROBERT MICHAELS
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Robert Michaels
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director, President and Chief Operating Officer</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ BERNARD FREIBAUM
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Bernard Freibaum
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director, Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer<BR>(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ ALAN COHEN
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Alan Cohen
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ ANTHONY DOWNS
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Anthony Downs
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ THOMAS H. NOLAN, JR.
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Thomas H. Nolan, Jr.
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ JOHN T. RIORDAN
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
John T. Riordan
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ BETH STEWART
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Beth Stewart
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Director</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">/s/ ADAM METZ
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-top: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV>
Adam Metz
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the trustees (or other persons who
administer the employee benefit plan) have duly cause this Registration Statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Chicago, State of
Illinois, on June&nbsp;15, 2006.
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    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">GENERAL GROWTH 401(k) SAVINGS PLAN<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD valign="top">By:&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">/s/ CHARLES LHOTKA
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">Charles Lhotka, as Authorized Signatory for&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="2" align="left">the General Growth 401(k) Savings Plan<BR>Administrative
Committee&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>EXHIBIT INDEX</B>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">Number</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Deloitte &#038; Touche LLP.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of KPMG LLP.</TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">24.1
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    <TD align="left" valign="top">Powers of Attorney (included on signature page).</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">The Registrant will submit or has submitted the Plan and any amendments thereto to the Internal
Revenue Service (the &#147;IRS&#148;) in a timely manner and will make all changes required by the IRS in
order to maintain the tax qualified status of the Plan.
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
42-1283895
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
110 North Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois
60606
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip code)
General Growth 401(k) Savings Plan
(Full title of the plan)
MR. JOHN BUCKSBAUM
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
GENERAL GROWTH PROPERTIES, INC.
110 NORTH WACKER DRIVE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60606
(Name and address of agent for service)
(312) 960-5000
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed
Proposed
Title of each
maximum
maximum
Amount of
class of securities
Amount to be
offering price
aggregate offering
registration
to be registered
registered (2)
per share (3)
price
fee
Common Stock (par
value $.01 per
share)(1)(2)
1,500,000
$
43.62
$
65,430,000
$
7,002
(1)
The shares of common stock of General Growth Properties, Inc., $.01 par value per
share (the "Common Stock"), being registered hereby include associated preferred share
purchase rights, which attach to and trade with the shares of Common Stock.
(2)
Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, such amount also covers such
additional number of shares as may be required in the event of a stock dividend, stock
split, recapitalization or other similar event. In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c)
under the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate
amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan described
herein.
(3)
Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance
with Rules 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act of 1933 and based on the average of the
high and low prices of a share of Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange
on June, 15, 2006.
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is filed to register an additional 1,500,000 shares of
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), of General Growth Properties, Inc.
(the "Registrant") for the General Growth 401(k) Savings Plan, as amended (the "Plan"). The Plan
changed its name from the General Growth Management Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan to
the General Growth 401(k) Savings Plan as of January 1, 2006.
The Registrant previously filed a Registration Statement on Form S-8 relating to the Plan with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on August 30, 1996 (File No. 333-11237).
This Registration Statement was prepared in accordance with General Instruction E of Form S-8 and,
in accordance therewith, incorporates by reference the previously filed Registration Statement.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration
Statement:
23.1
Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
23.2
Consent of KPMG LLP.
24.1
Powers of Attorney (included on signature page).
The Registrant will submit or has submitted the Plan and any amendments thereto to the Internal
Revenue Service (the "IRS") in a timely manner and will make all changes required by the IRS in
order to maintain the tax qualified status of the Plan.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has
duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, on June 15, 2006.
General Growth Properties, Inc.
(Registrant)
By:
/s/                 JOHN BUCKSBAUM
John Bucksbaum
Chief Executive Officer
We, the undersigned officers and directors of General Growth Properties, Inc., hereby severally
constitute John Bucksbaum, Robert Michaels and Bernard Freibaum, and each of them singly, our true
and lawful attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and in our
names in the capacities indicated below, any and all amendments, including post-effective
amendments, to this registration statement, and to sign a new registration statement pursuant to
Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, and generally to do all such things in our name and
behalf in such capacities to enable General Growth Properties, Inc. to comply with the applicable
provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and we hereby ratify and confirm our signatures as they may be signed by our said
attorneys, or any of them, to any and all such amendments.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Registration Statement has been signed on
June 15, 2006 by the following persons in the capacities indicated:
/s/ MATTHEW BUCKSBAUM
Matthew Bucksbaum
Chairman of the Board
/s/ JOHN BUCKSBAUM
John Bucksbaum
Director and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal
Executive Officer)
/s/ ROBERT MICHAELS
Robert Michaels
Director, President and Chief Operating Officer
/s/ BERNARD FREIBAUM
Bernard Freibaum
Director, Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
/s/ ALAN COHEN
Alan Cohen
Director
/s/ ANTHONY DOWNS
Anthony Downs
Director
/s/ THOMAS H. NOLAN, JR.
Thomas H. Nolan, Jr.
Director
/s/ JOHN T. RIORDAN
John T. Riordan
Director
/s/ BETH STEWART
Beth Stewart
Director
/s/ ADAM METZ
Adam Metz
Director
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the trustees (or other persons who
administer the employee benefit plan) have duly cause this Registration Statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Chicago, State of
Illinois, on June 15, 2006.
GENERAL GROWTH 401(k) SAVINGS PLAN
By:
/s/ CHARLES LHOTKA
Charles Lhotka, as Authorized Signatory for
the General Growth 401(k) Savings Plan
Administrative
Committee
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number
Document
23.1
Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
23.2
Consent of KPMG LLP.
24.1
Powers of Attorney (included on signature page).
The Registrant will submit or has submitted the Plan and any amendments thereto to the Internal
Revenue Service (the "IRS") in a timely manner and will make all changes required by the IRS in
order to maintain the tax qualified status of the Plan.