The following statement was released by Brookfield Office Properties Tuesday morning after Occupy Wall Street protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park, a plaza owned by the real-estate company:

Brookfield appreciates the peaceful and professional response of the NYPD, the FDNY, and the Department of Sanitation, and thanks Mayor Bloomberg for his leadership. As had been widely reported, conditions in Zuccotti Park had become dangerous, unhealthy and unsafe. In our view, these risks were unacceptable and it would have been...