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One Park Ave. may be sold all or in part to New York University. The NYU Langone Medical Center is already the 20-story building’s largest tenant, with 367,584 square feet. It also has rights to lease other floors in... October 24, 2012
From CommercialIn what will be a game changer for the neighborhood, Whole Foods has inked a deal to open in Harlem at 100 W. 125th St. on the southwest corner of Lenox Avenue. The organic grocery chain also signed to open on the... October 17, 2012
From CommercialThe office portion of the double tower at 866 United Nations Plaza has hit the sales block and could fetch around $180 million. Vornado Realty Trust has hired the “Queen of the Skyscrapers” Darcy Stacom, and her CBRE... October 10, 2012
From CommercialThe Meatpacking District building that houses Pastis, the famed French bistro, is headed for a historic redevelopment along with the adjacent property. William Gottlieb Real Estate, which owns 9-11 Ninth Ave. and 406 W... October 03, 2012
From CommercialAfter months of negotiations, Dick’s Sporting Goods has walked away from a fully negotiated deal with Malkin Holdings for 56,000 square feet at 1333 Broadway in Herald Square. “This is a phenomenal location with... September 26, 2012
From CommercialAnother bottle brawl has broken out — this time between nightlife operators and building owners. After the Chris Brown-Drake bottle-throwing melee at SoHo hot spot W.i.P., bottle sales at clubs are getting hammered by... September 19, 2012
From CommercialThe Israeli owners of 452 Fifth Ave. are wrapping up construction that will bring all five tower-floor elevators to the very top of the building where the late Edmond Safra used to have his isolated private office.... September 18, 2012
From BusinessThe 40-story Class A office building Tower 45 has just hit the market through CBRE on behalf of SL Green Realty Corp. with expectations it could sell for north of $270 million, or $600+ per square foot. The 475,000... September 12, 2012
From CommercialThe sponsors and other companies involved in the development and early management of the starchitect Richard Meier’-designed On Prospect Park, at One Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, are being sued for more than $200... September 11, 2012
From CommercialAxel Stawski’s office building at 579 Fifth Ave. has quietly undergone an entire artistic and mechanical transformation into a sleek modern boutique property. Kohn Pederson Fox designed the upgrades to the 1954-era... September 05, 2012
From CommercialAn entity advised by UBS has purchased the land under the Sports Illustrated Building for $279 million. The company already owned the operating lease, which does not end until 2106. The purchase of the land, with the... August 29, 2012
From CommercialSL Green has now hired Tara Stacom at Cushman & Wakefield to handle leasing of the nearly 850,000 square feet of space at 180 Maiden Lane that could be available in the middle of 2014 when AIG’s lease is up. Stacom is... August 22, 2012
From CommercialThe Winklevoss twins may believe that the cloud is the next big thing, but the duo is starting out small when it comes to their venture capital company. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss — who famously battled Facebook’s... August 15, 2012
From CommercialThe city’s first proton-based cancer-busting machine is now targeted on East Harlem. A consortium of area hospitals had been trying to get the machine in at a series of city sites since 2010 — first on West 57th Street... August 08, 2012
From CommercialAby Rosen is itching to get back in the buying game with what could be a $350 million splash. The German-born — but Americanized — art and landmark-building collector and his co-founder in RFR Realty, Michael Fuchs, are... August 01, 2012
From CommercialThe building where a Young & Rubicam employee died in a malfunctioning elevator last December is now for sale — and could fetch north of $150 million. The 1926-era building at 285 Madison Ave., on the northwest corner... July 25, 2012
From CommercialThe sale of One Court Square by SL Green Realty and JPMorgan to a group led by David Werner is set to close today. Earlier this year, the buyers agreed to shell out more money to extend the closing date, pushing the... July 18, 2012
From CommercialMorton’s The Steakhouse has signed a lease at 140 Washington St., which is in the base of the World Center Hotel at 130 Cedar Street, right opposite the World Trade Center. The duplex space will have 2,125 square feet... July 11, 2012
From CommercialNordstrom Rack, the off-price division of the Seattle-based department store chain, is said to be in preliminary discussions to dig into about 50,000 square feet — mostly underground — at Blackstone’s 1095 Ave. of the... July 04, 2012
From BusinessThe Brewster has landed a buyer. The 144-unit building at 21 W. 86th St. just traded for $98 million to Cornerstone with Adellco as the operating partner. Cornerstone is a division of Mass Mutual. The building was... June 27, 2012
From CommercialNormandy Partners and New York Life are in contract to buy the office building at 575 Lexington Ave. between 51st and 52nd streets in the Plaza District for about $360 million, sources said. The 740,000-square-foot... June 20, 2012
From CommercialA deal announced last fall between Ian Schrager and Durst Fetner Residential to build a ground-up Public Hotel in Herald Square is kaput. Before speaking at a Crain’s real estate event yesterday in Midtown, Schrager... June 13, 2012
From CommercialHarlem will soon benefit from a grand orchestration by retail maestro Jeff Sutton, who is developing 100 W. 125th St. on the southwest corner of Lenox Avenue into an approximately 180,000 square-foot shopping Mecca. We... June 06, 2012
From CommercialBrooks Brothers is on its way to Wall Street. The white-shoe fashion retailer is in negotiations to lease two floors totaling 7,000 square feet at 35 Wall St., just steps away from the New York Stock Exchange. “It’s... May 30, 2012
From CommercialShareholders are pushing family-controlled Reading International to sell Cinema 1, 2 & 3 on the Upper East Side and the Union Square Theatre as locals have already made offers. But the theater/real-estate company has... May 23, 2012
From CommercialJoseph Moinian is working to cobble together an 84,000-square-foot retail space at the base of the office building at 535-545 Fifth Ave. that will run the full 200-foot long block between East 44th and 45th streets —... May 16, 2012
From CommercialTwo older industrial office buildings near the Trump SoHo Hotel are being bought and combined into a new, modern entity called One SoHo Square, named after the park across Spring Street. Stellar Management’s Larry... May 09, 2012
From CommercialNow that 237 Park Ave. is fully in the hands of former lender Lehman Bros., and the holding company has hired Monday Properties to manage the 21-story building near Grand Central Terminal, the question making the rounds... May 08, 2012
From BusinessJCPenney just got a fair and square deal of its own with a lease for all 130,000 square feet of 200 Lafayette St. at Broome Street. The move is designed to attract a hip workforce and continue the corporate culture... May 02, 2012
From CommercialTalk about an early renewal. Last year’s overall Class A office-rent bounce of about 15 percent put some spring into one tenant’s decision-making. Random House, which had 645,000 square feet at its namesake building at... April 25, 2012
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