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• March 2022 New York Buildings For Sale
• For Sale: GFP Real Estate is looking to sell an industrial property (Bushwick Place) on the border of East Williamsburg and Bushwick for $30 million. The decision was made after a noodle manufacturer renewed its lease for the 71,500-square foot Brooklyn building for 10 years. Properties Sold: An institutional owner sold 375 West Broadway for $130 million. The building houses a 10,000-square-foot Gucci store on the ground floor beneath 60,000 square feet of office space. Oaktree Capital Management sold a condominium building at 90 Greene Street for $39.4 million to Acadia Realty Trust. The building contains 11,200-square-foot with four full-floor ...
  
  
• July 2021 New York Buildings For Sale
• Buildings for Sale: 14 Vesey Street, a rare historically vacant building, is for sale for an undisclosed amount in Downtown, Manhattan. A lot is available at 347 Lexington Avenue for sale to establish a hotel. The asking price is $10,000,000. It is 20 stories tall with 65 rooms. Two properties at 1984-90 3rd Avenue are for sale for $15,000,000. There are four retail units. Buildings Sold: Premier Equities acquired a 17,500-square-foot hotel building at 130 Duane Street for $18 million. The seller was Hersha Hospitality Management. Steven Schnall and Howard Lev sold an 8,300-square-foot, mixed-use building at 287 Bleecker Street ...
  
  
• January 2020 New York Buildings For Sale
• Buildings For Sale: Viacom is considering a sale of CBS’ 38-story Midtown headquarters. CBS occupies about a third of the 870,000-square-foot building at 51 West 52nd Street. Orda Management Corp. is looking to sell 225 and 233 Park Avenue South containing about 675,000-square-foot for as much as $800 million. Target signed a lease for a 33,000-square-foot store on 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The store will be Target’s 10th small-format shop in Manhattan, and is slated to open in 2022. Buildings Sold: McDonald’s sold a three-story retail building containing 5,800-square-foot at 429 Seventh Avenue for $35 million. The ...
  
  
• November 2019 New York New Developments
• Major Developments: Barneys has been sold to Authentic Brands Group and B. Riley for around $270 million. The new owners will likely shut Barneys’ locations, including its 275,000-square-foot flagship property at 660 Madison Avenue. IBM is looking for 500,000 square feet to consolidate its New York office space from multiple locations including a WeWork. IBM’s lease at WeWork’s 88 University runs through 2024. Vornado Realty Trust has encountered more retail challenges as Forever 21 filed for bankruptcy protection. However, Forever 21 may be able to keep its stores at 435 Seventh Avenue and 1540 Broadway open for a bit longer. ...
  
  
• October 2019 New York Buildings For Sale
• Buildings For Sale: Unizo Holdings Co. is selling two office buildings 40 West 25th Street and 685 Third Avenue. Blackstone subsidiary EQ Office put the 622,000-square-foot office building at 65 East 55th Street on the market. Asking more than $800 million. The land underneath Manhattan’s iconic Lipstick Building at 885 Third Avenue is for sale. Buildings Sold: A subsidiary of South Korean-based conglomerate Aju, bought 52 West 36th Street for $85.5 million and 30 West 31st Street for $51.2 million. Combined, the properties have 307 rooms. The seller was Chesapeake Lodging Trust. HUBB NYC purchased three commercial condo units at ...
  
  
• September 2019 New York Buildings For Sale
• Buildings Sold: A seven-story, 87-unit mixed-use building at 2785 Broadway traded for $22.6 million. The buyer was TriArch Real Estate Group. The sellers were five companies: Adama Holdings LLC, Crane Key Co. LLC, Noam Associates LLC, FLI Properties LLC and Israel Family Noam LLC. The Hospital for Special Surgery bought a six-story parking garage at 524 East 73rd Street for about $19.7 million. The seller was River Company LLC. The property is two blocks from the hospital’s main campus. JAM Real Estate Partners picked up a six-story, mixed-use walkup at 1685-1687 First Avenue for $13 million. The seller of the ...
  
  
• May 2019 New York Buildings For Sale
• Buildings For Sale: Marymount School of New York has listed its five-story, 12,300-square-foot townhouse at 2 East 82nd Street between Fifth and Madison avenues for $32 million. JPMorgan is looking to sell 195 Broadway for $800 million. The bank’s asset management arm owns a 95% stake in the 1.1 million-square-foot building through a partnership with L&L; Holding and Beacon Capital. JPMorgan Asset Management is considering bids ranging from a 49% stake to a sale of full ownership. If 195 Broadway sold for $800 million, the asset manager would be realizing roughly $730 a square foot. Buildings Sold: Savanna has a ...
  
  
• April 2019 New York New Developments
• Major Developments: Gyms and athletic wear retailers once again dominated the retail leasing scene last month in New York City, securing four of the top 10 biggest deals. The rest mostly comprised of restaurants. The biggest retail lease deals signed last month totaled 188,100 square feet, down 41,600 square feet from January’s total of 229,700 square feet. In February of 2018, the top 10 retail leases totaled 108,200 square feet. Hermès of Paris inked a lease for 40,000 square feet of space at 706 Madison Avenue for a new flagship location. The building’s landlord is Friedland Properties. Brooklyn Boulders signed ...
  
  
• January 2018 New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings For Sale: Chinese developer is looking to sell the 50-story, 492-key Holiday Inn Manhattan-Financial District. There is no official asking price for the hotel, which opened in 2014, but assumed to be north of $300 million for the property. RFR Realty has given up on developing condominiums at 67 Vestry Street, opting to sell the site to Elliott Aronson’s Iliad Realty Group for $55.5 million. New York Buildings Sold: Sunny K Realty paid $13.5 million for an 18-unit mixed-use building at 18 East 23rd Street. The Gramercy Park property includes 16 apartments and two commercial units, and ...
  
  
• May 2016: New York New Developments
• New Developments General Growth Properties and Thor Equities' are planning to add five new floors of office space at 685 Fifth Avenue. The developers are planning to redistribute space from the lower floors to create five new floors of office space that will be added to the 20-story building, raising its height from 227 feet to 292 feet.Isaac Chetrit">Isaac Chetrit and Ray Yadidi are planning a mixed-use skyscraper of up to 80 stories in a block-long assemblage on Sixth Avenue between West 36th and 37th streets, consisting of two existing buildings and 235,000 square feet of adjacent air rights. They ...
  
  
• May 2015: New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings sold Eliot Spitzer's sale of the Crown Building for $1.78 billion to Jeff Sutton and General Growth Properties set an all-time price per-square-foot record. The deal, which closed last month, marks the highest price paid per square foot ever paid for an entire office building. At 390,000 square feet, the price breaks down to $4,564 per square foot.Extell Development and the Group.">Carlyle Group sold a portion of their Riverside Center project on the Far West Side for $410.8 million to James Linsley's GID Development Group. GID purchased 40 Riverside Boulevard, one of five buildings in the 8-acre ...
  
  
• March 2015: New York Buildings For Sale
• NYC Buildings For Sale General Growth Properties is putting an 85,000 square feet of fully-leased Noho office space up for sale located a 200 Lafayette Street.Just three years after paying $360 million for an office tower at 575 Lexington Avenue, Normandy Real Estate Partners is looking to sell.The Chetrit Group is seeking a buyer for its Hudson Yards development site, but in the interim, the firm is planning on spending $29 million to more than double the buildable square footage the property allows as-of-right.433 Fifth Avenue is for sale asking $30 million for a six-story Midtown commercial building. The 17,000-square-foot ...
  
  
• September 2014: New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings sold A Greenwich, Conn.-based real estate investor group purchased the leasehold interest at the Midtown Extended-Stay Marriott at 144 East 48th Street from AEW Capital Management for $89.6 million. Barclays gave a $57 million loan.The single-room-occupancy Camden Hotel, which the 24th Precinct on the Upper West Side once ranked as the area's second most dangerous building, has sold for $15 million.A Real estate developer purchased the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village and will embark on a renovation that will see the independent theater redone as a repertory house.Normandy Real Estate Partners is purchasing a 50 percent stake ...
  
  
• March 2013: New York New Developments
• New York New Developments Acadia Realty Trust has defended its stance on hiring non-union workers for its City Point megaproject and responded to a trade group's accusation that the development exploits the community and wastes taxpayer dollars. They believe that City Point will generate thousands of jobs and enhance Downtown Brooklyn's quality of life. Acadia is committed to maximizing local and minority contracting and employment as they create a LEED-certified development with the affordable housing, retail and entertainment options that the neighborhood well deserves.A trio of Russian entrepreneurs is redeveloping a three-acre sports complex, slated to be the largest in ...
  
  
• February 2013: New York City New Developments
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave New Yorkers whose homes were devastated by Hurricane Sandy a 30-day extension on applications for home repairs. The Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, which has helped New Yorkers continue living in participating hotels and motels, will also be extended. Governor Cuomo requested that FEMA grant extensions. Alexander McQueen plans to decamp to 747 Madison Avenue. The designer will lease a double-height 3,300-square-foot space owned by Jeff Sutton, paying $1,300 per square foot during the 15-year lease. Fashion label Escada previously took up a portion of the retail space. Before that, Valentino occupied the space during ...
  
  
• April 2007 New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings sold Midtown portfolio, 8 office buildings, 6.5 million SF total, was sold to Macklowe Properties for $7 billion. 450 West 33rd Street, a 1.7 million SF office building, was sold to Broadway Partners for $700 million. 14 Wall Street, a 1 million SF office building, was sold to John Zamir, Capstone Equities for $325 million. Bruckner Plaza (The Bronx), a 386,000 SF shopping center, was sold to Vornado Realty Trust for $165 million. Albee Square Mall (Brooklyn) with a 70-year ground lease was sold to Acadia Realty Trust and P/A Associates for $125 million. 102-05 Ditmars Blvd ...