Thor, GGP Close on Landmark Billionaire’s Row Building for $81.5M [Updated]
Month: June 2016
Berley-Led Investment Group Acquires Chelsea Building for $14M, Plans Coworking
Walker & Dunlop Secures $672M for Massive Student Housing Portfolio
Developer of Queen’s Tallest Building Buys Two LIC Buildings For Personal Office Space
Macklowe Properties Buys 432 Park Avenue Retail Condo for $411M
Pre-Built Expansion at 1 WTC Gets OK from Port Authority Board [Updated]
Hudson Companies Gets $30M Investors Bank Construction Refi for 22 Caton Place in Brooklyn
Thomas Webb, General Manager for the New York Metro Region at Skanska
Banks Were Tenants That Could Afford a Big Rent, but Now They’re Suddenly Shrinking. Why?
National Geographic Coming to Life With Interactive Exhibit in Times Square
Digital Research Firm Renews 13K-SF Lease on West 37th Street
Cap NYC Property Taxes, Get It Together on 421a: State Senate Leader
Clipper Realty Snags $70M for Acquisition of East Harlem Rental
Ali Esmaeilzadeh of Forest City Has Turned Downtown Brooklyn Into a Serious Player
Smorgasburg’s Jonathan Butler and Eric Demby Started a NYC Food Revolution—Now LA Calls
Brooklyn and Queens Have Become Hotel Havens. So When Will the Bubble Pop?
Gym Home to ‘Fittest Woman on Earth’ Opening Second NYC Location
Forest City Ratner’s Director of Retail, Kathryn Welch, Leaving the Company
Avanath Capital, Oak Tree Expand Affordable Housing Brooklyn Portfolio With $14.4M Buy
Architecture Firm Leaving Empire State Building After Three Decades
NY Workers’ Comp Insurance Company Admin Renews 25K SF at 110 William
Billionaire Steven Cohen’s Asset Management Firm Moving to 55 Hudson Yards
Raymond James Financial Nabs 11,518 SF at 200 Liberty Street
Chefs Club by Food & Wine Bringing High-End Fast-Casual Café to Spring Street
Meridian Negotiates $65M Freddie Mac Loan From Capital One for Long Island Buy
ASB Real Estate Investments Purchasing 155 Mercer Street From Thor for $90M
Madison Realty Capital Lends $44M on East Village Student Housing Development
Personal Trainer (and Investor) Buys Bronx Building Portfolio for $14.9M
Two Boots Pizza Coming to FiDi With Two-Story Pizzeria and Bar/Lounge
TITLE Boxing Club NYC to Open Second Big Apple Location—in Midtown East
NYC-Based Cuban Restaurant Sophie’s Opening New Midtown Location
FDNY Staying in 320K-SF 9 MetroTech Center HQ for 10 More Years
Reis Services Leaves Fifth Avenue for Sublease on Avenue of the Americas
Emerge212 Signs at Parent Company SL Green’s 1185 Avenue of the Americas
Blink Fitness Opening First Branch in Tremont Section of the Bronx
UES Preschool Attempts to Accommodate More Students by Expanding Next Door
9/11 Tribute Center Expanding to 88 Greenwich From First Makeshift Location
Virtual Reality Is About to Take A Big Leap Forward in Architecture, Design and Marketing
Cushman & Wakefield’s Newest Executive Vice Chairman Drops Some Science on NYC Real Estate
Disneyfication 2.0: Welcome to the New Wave of Entertainment Venues in Times Square
‘The McDonald’s of the Philippines’ Opening First Manhattan Outpost
Cardiovascular Research Foundation Signs 47K-SF Lease for New HQ at 1700 Bway
Yes, We Kent! XIN Development’s John Liang on His Record-Smashing Development, the Oosten
Javits Center Expansion May Finally Take Off After Three Bidders Get Shortlisted
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Taking 125K SF at RXR’s 75 Rock
Fitch: Oil Industry Exposure, Student Housing Spell Trouble for CMBS
Commonwealth and New Oak Relocate to Third Avenue Building in Midtown
Tailwind Capital Renews 14K-SF Lease at SL Green’s 485 Lexington Avenue
Wells Fargo’s Gregory Wolkom Talks Retail Lending Trends in a Changing Market
Slideshow: Industry Titans Honor 2016’s Most Powerful at Park Hyatt New York
Public Records Aggregator BeenVerified Triples Office Size to 12K SF in Garment District
Washington Heights Property Manager Snaps Up Apartment Building for $16M
French Billionaire Takes $250M J.P. Morgan Chase Loan to Fund Buy of Thor’s 693 Fifth
Suicide and Mental Health Issues—Unspoken Topics in the Construction Biz
Health Care Company Renews 18K SF at Financial District Building
Raising the Roof: Inside the Palace Theatre’s $2 Billion Plan to Elevate Itself to New Levels
Independence Party Backs 421a Substitute as Sun Sets on Albany Session
BTEA Stalwart Lou Coletti on How He Rose Through the Ranks, and What Lies Ahead for Unions
[Video] Commercial Observations: The Rezoning of Midtown East with Mary Ann Tighe
[Video] Commercial Observations: What’s Next for WTC with CBRE’s Mary Ann Tighe
No Longer an Insane Asylum or a Prison, Roosevelt Island Is in a Construction Revolution
Tucker Reed Departing Downtown Brooklyn Partnership in August
PR Agency, Software Company Renew 19K SF in Bryant Park Area
Construction Begins on 1.3M-SF, $4.2B Terminal Building at LaGuardia [Updated]
FinTech Firm, Investment Bank Take Full Floors at 19 West 24th Street
Law Firm Goldberg Segalla Relocating Within SL Green Portfolio, to 711 Third
Global Art Gallery Completes Lease for Entire Chelsea Building
Wagamama Takes Second NYC Space, Before First Pan-Asian Eatery Opens
Mass Mutual Relocating Offices to Charles S. Cohen’s 622 Third Avenue
After String of Deaths, Hammer of Justice Comes Down on Construction Firms
Hibachi Grill & Supreme Buffet Finds a New Home at Concourse Plaza
NYU Langone Brings New Life to $217M in Bonds for Kips Bay Properties
Paul Massey Taps SL Green Exec to Run de Blasio Challenge (Not That He’s Running)
David Lynch Foundation Relocates to Larger Space Next to Its Current Home [Updated]
Artificial Intelligence Company IPsoft Takes 27K SF in Sub-Sublease at 7 WTC
SLIDESHOW: Street Artists Take to Coney Island for Thor Equities’ Art Walls Program
Torchlight Shuffles Special Servicing Group, Steven Schwartz Shifts Focus to CMBS
ESRT’s Fred Posniak on W. 34th Street, TOMS and Why Brick-and-Mortar Is Alive and Well
LPC Forced to Pick Up Pace With One-Year Deadline for Landmarking Process
First Commercial Bank, Consulting Company Each Sign Full-Floor Deals at 750 Third Avenue
Fairway $140M Reorganization Plan Gets Unanimous Thumbs-Up From Lenders
Hudson Companies Buys Bergen Gardens Resi Complex in Brooklyn for $50M
Laurence Roberts is Forging Brooklyn’s Next Great Dining Destination
Be Afraid: $56B in Maturing Retail Loans Could Face Refinancing Troubles
Retail Is Reeling in Soho as Its Once Impregnable Neighbors Nervously Watch
Anchors Away: How the Loss of an Anchor Tenant Is Felt Down the Retail Chain
UWS Landlord to Pay $540K Settlement After Concealing Rent-Control Buyouts
It’s Official: Hard Rock International to Open New Hotel on West 48th Street
Triangle Assets Carves Out Part of Midtown East Lobby for Pressed Juicery
Plaza College, Children’s Counseling School Take Floors in Queens Office Building
Law Firm and JLL Sign Leases at Fosun’s 28 Liberty Street [Updated]
New York Life Insurance Company Renews, Expands to Over 110K SF at Graybar Building
Construction Firms Form Group to Bust Myths of Nonunion Workers
The Net Investment Income Tax: Does It Apply to Rental Real Estate?
Brack Capital and Media iQ Digital Grab Space at 853 Broadway
Boston Developer Lands $30M Construction Loan for Missouri Multifamily Development
Spitzer Snags $330M Starwood Loan for Waterfront Williamsburg Development
Dime Savings Bank Taking 42K-SF at Forest City’s 1 Pierrepont Plaza
Silverstein Signs Brennan Center in Relocation to 120 Broadway
BLDG Taps Meridian to Arrange $39M in Debt for Queens Resi Tower