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249 West 17th Street -- the former Siegel-Cooper warehouse

Savanna Pays $75.8M for Adjacent Chelsea Loft Buildings

New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm Savanna has closed on its acquisition of two adjacent loft-style office buildings at 245 West 17th Street and 249 West 17th Street in Chelsea for $75.8 million, city records show.

Originally a dry goods warehouse and wagon house for the Siegel-Cooper Company department store, the property at 249 West 17th Street is a 145,000-square-foot, six-story building.  The other property, equal in square footage, is 12 stories high.

The two properties have a combined 40,000 square feet of office space and are located within a couple blocks of Chelsea Market, the Meatpacking District and Google’s 111 Eighth Avenue. Read More

Trade Secrets! ‘Wealthy Family’ Buys Devonshire Retail Space

The retail space on the ground floor of the Devonshire House, a prewar Greenwich Village beauty at 28 East 10th Street, has changed hands for $10.35 million. The buyer, according to broker Eric Anton, is “a very wealthy family here in New York.”

Eastern Consolidated represented the seller and, according to a release, “procured” the buyer, Read More

The Letterman Fan

Brian Ezratty had only been a broker for eight short years when he inked one of those once-in-a-lifetime fantasy deals that people tend to read about in the papers and then later wonder what would’ve happened had the sale not been successful.

In this case, it was a deal that not only established Mr. Ezratty Read More