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  • Facelift eyed for Plaza roof

    July 28, 2010

    The Plaza's condo board wants to dump some of the glass on the penthouse roof and replace it with copper and tile. According to the application filed with the Landmarks...

  • Jinx over at 100 Church St.

    Jinx over at 100 Church St.

    July 27, 2010

    It's good-bye tacky chandeliers, hello to the first large new tenant in years at 100 Church St. Six months after SL Green took over the 1-million-square-foot building near...

  • Milford Plaza's on sales block

    July 20, 2010

    The "Lullaby of Broad way" might become The Lulla-buy of Broadway. The owners of The shuttered Milford Plaza Hotel, which used The slogan for decades, have tapped a top hotel...

  • Argonaut building sold

    July 14, 2010

    The Middle East investment group that has been renovating the Argonaut Building at 224 W. 57 St. under a 99-year lease is now in contract to buy it. No price is available, but...

  • BNY Mellon eyeing 1 WTC

    July 13, 2010

    Bank of New York Mellon is considering a complex, three-way real estate maneuver that would include moving part of its operations to 1 World Trade Center and selling its historic...

  • Trading places for Deutsche

    July 07, 2010

    In an ingenious deal for downtown, Deutsche Bank is in the process of acquiring one of the former AIG headquarters buildings from Youngwoo & Associates and its Korean banking...

  • Best foot forward

    July 06, 2010

    A gleaming, four-story glass retail showcase is coming to 34th Street west of Macy's -- and bringing a giant DSW shoe emporium with it. It will make a splendid addition to the...

  • 4 WFC adds Deloitte renewal

    June 30, 2010

    Deloitte and Brook field Properties have finally completed their direct deal for the accounting giant to remain in 400,000 square feet at 4 World Financial Center -- and expand...

  • Loan woes at 757 Third

    Loan woes at 757 Third

    June 29, 2010

    The latest commercial property loan to go into special-servicing is at a surprising address: RFR Realty's 757 Third Ave. at 48th Street, a nearly 500,000-square-foot office...

  • Chase eyes move

    Chase eyes move

    June 23, 2010

    A juicy set of office moves are teeing up at 245 Park Ave., where JPMorgan Chase is apparently going to vacate its nearly 600,000 square feet. The bank's goal, "tellers" say,...

  • Wilhelmina in lease renewal

    June 22, 2010

    It's small as office deals go -- but a decision Wilhelmina Models has made to keep its New York headquarters at 300 Park Ave. South is sheer beauty for landlord Rockrose...

  • A new crop of Class B space

    June 16, 2010

    Now that the investment sales market has gotten comfortable with Class A office pricing and across-the-board leasing activity, a slew of Class B office buildings is coming to...

  • New 1WTC war of words

    New 1WTC war of words

    June 15, 2010

    The race to buy a piece of the Port Authority's 1 World Trade Center is getting down and dirty. Time Warner Center developer Stephen Ross unloaded yesterday on a claim that...

  • Sephora nails a new site

    June 09, 2010

    Sephora has just signed a lease for 4,500 feet of the newly redeveloped Meatpacking District site at 21-27 Ninth Avenue on the southwest corner of 13th Street. It was just...

  • Flagship sails

    Flagship sails

    June 01, 2010

    Hammacher Schlem mer will soon be history on East 57th Street. * The Hammacher Schlemmer building, the fabled gadget emporium's flagship since the 1920s, has been sold to a...

  • Condos lien on Post Office

    May 26, 2010

    The US Postal Service has be come a deadbeat. The Post Office has stopped paying common charges at two of its Manhattan locations and the respective condominium boards have...

  • Manhattan market is fine

    Manhattan market is fine

    May 25, 2010

    The Manhattan office market is doing just fine. Not every landlord would agree with that, but today's vacancy rate of 11.5 percent, according to Cushman & Wakefield, is much...

  • Same tower, different floors

    May 19, 2010

    Despite nervous nellies fretting a while back that Manhattan would be awash in large chunks of empty office space, a sudden dearth of big blocks of available space has prompted...

  • Lawyers are off Broadway

    May 18, 2010

    Law firm Proskauer, Rose's monumental lease for 406,000 square feet at 11 Times Square, signed yesterday, puts developer SJP Properties ahead of its projections for the 1.1...

  • All the views fit for new hotel

    May 12, 2010

    After completing a refinancing and an $85 million capital-improvement program, AFI USA wants to sell the belly of the former New York Times Building in Times Square to a luxury...

  • Lawyers rest their search

    May 11, 2010

    To complete one of the larger deals of the year, the stealthy lawyers at Willkie Farr & Gallagher invoked two five-year renewal options for 355,118 square feet at 787 Seventh...

  • Retail triple play set to $core

    May 05, 2010

    A trio of downtown retail condominiums are being marketed with price tags that could reach as high as $50 million each for the two more expensive properties. Bids are due...

  • Flourishing Fulton

    Flourishing Fulton

    May 04, 2010

    Long Island University's Brooklyn campus will take the upper floors at 490 Fulton St. for student housing leaving the retail space open in the heart of the Fulton St. Mall. IT...

  • Skechers ties up deals

    April 28, 2010

    Skechers USA just completed deals in both Manhattan and the Bronx. The athletic shoe retailer has signed on for 8,700 square feet at the Gateway Center near Yankee Stadium,...

  • Big deal nears in Midtown

    April 27, 2010

    A monumental deal for law firm Proskauer, Rose to move to SJP Properties' new 11 Times Square is "imminent," sources said yesterday. The lease -- first reported on The Post's...

  • New stake in the sky

    New stake in the sky

    April 27, 2010

    The field of developers chasing a stake in the Port Authority's 1 World Trade Center will be whittled down to a two- or three-horse race this week. Of the four major developers...

  • Rumors about downtown's woes are wrong

    April 27, 2010

    While doom-and-gloomers claim that downtown, and Brookfield in particular, face a meltdown because of a possible move-out by Merrill Lynch at the World Financial Center, actual...

  • Lawyers take a Fifth lease

    April 21, 2010

    Vinson & Elkins, a law firm whose practice focuses on the energy sector, is re-energizing 666 Fifth Avenue with a renewal and expansion to about 81,000 square feet. The firm...

  • Water splashes on World Wide

    April 20, 2010

    Marketing began today on $53 million in city-backed bonds to help finance construction of new public schools at World Wide Group's mixed-use project at Second Avenue between East...

  • 57th St. goes to the Maxx

    April 14, 2010

    Discount clothing chain TJ Maxx yesterday inked a deal to open a store at 250 W. 57th Street, where it will set the tone for a new fashion corridor. The retailer signed a...

  • Vornado's Penn tower deal

    Vornado's Penn tower deal

    April 13, 2010

    Vornado Realty Trust is offering a deal it hopes the city can't refuse. The publicly traded real estate giant is promising an unprecedented slew of improvements to the Herald...

  • This bill seeds $2.5B in deals

    April 07, 2010

    More than $2.5 billion worth of projects to build schools, hospitals and other non-profit buildings has been stalled for more than two years while a union battle for prevailing...

  • New lease on life at Katz

    March 31, 2010

    Katz Media Group has quietly renewed and rejiggered its lease to expand to about 200,000 square feet at 125 W. 55th Street. The 591,000 square foot building is owned by Boston...

  • WTC has a 6-year glitch

    WTC has a 6-year glitch

    March 30, 2010

    Despite a tentative deal between Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority providing public financing help for Silverstein's 3 World Trade Center, the 2.5 million square-foot...

  • Onex takes on Sky View Parc

    March 23, 2010

    Muss Development's equity partner in its massive Sky View Parc complex near Flushing Meadows Park "has taken over the driver's seat" in the slow-moving, $1 billion-plus scheme,...

  • One Broadway deal

    March 17, 2010

    In a deal that will likely be greeted as a sign of stability for both the building at One Broadway and downtown in general, law firm Kenyon & Kenyon is close to renewing its...

  • Clothes call on Park Ave.

    March 16, 2010

    HMX Group, the newly formed tailored-clothing firm under the creative direction of designer Joseph Abboud, needed a bit more in the shoulders. So the company -- which manages...

  • Vornado wants 510 Fifth

    March 10, 2010

    Vornado Realty Trust is swooping in to buy the landmarked 510 Fifth Avenue. Sources say the real estate investment trust led by Steven Roth and Michael Fascitelli is trying to...

  • What's two cents worth?

    March 09, 2010

    Call it the 2-cent turn around. According to Ken McCarthy, Cushman & Wakefield's New York-area research chief, the average Manhattan office building asking rent increased in...

  • Support for Hochfelder

    March 03, 2010

    Ad am Hochfelder was the baby-faced boy wonder who at the top of his game owned part of a Midtown office portfolio worth nearly $3 billion. Now, he's been indicted for...

  • Show us some glass

    March 02, 2010

    C harles Blaichman, developer of High Line-straddling 450 W. 14th St., insists there's nothing wrong with his 15-story project that's still a concrete skeleton, vowing that...

  • 340 Madison Ave. is a gem

    February 24, 2010

    The office building at 340 Madison Ave. is on the block, and thanks to its current cash flow it could be one of the few prime city offerings to fetch more than the sellers paid...

  • Ins & outs on 57th Street

    February 23, 2010

    Prominent auction eer Phillips de Pury is probably coming. Fabled gadget emporium Hammacher Schlemmer will probably go. Both "probablys" reflect the uncertain, shifting retail...

  • Landlord wants Daffy's booted

    February 17, 2010

    Discount retailer Daffy's is facing a lawsuit from Charles Cohen, who claims the chain backdated a renewal option for its East 57th Street store and thus should be booted out of...

  • Mosler plans C&W dream team

    Mosler plans C&W dream team

    February 16, 2010

    When Cushman & Wakefield CEO Bruce Mosler completes the transition to co-chairman of the global firm he has led for nearly five years, he'll no longer "be traveling like 300 days...

  • New subway line needs cash

    February 10, 2010

    Real estate executives are calling on Uncle Sam to provide federal stimulus money to build a new subway station at West 41st Street and Tenth Avenue for the No. 7 subway line...

  • Big 6 bid on part of 1 WTC

    February 09, 2010

    Port Authority Execu tive Director Chris Ward wasn't exaggerating when he said recently the PA would act swiftly to find a development partner for 1 World Trade Center. ...

  • Eagle has landed SoHo space

    February 03, 2010

    Popular teen clothier American Eagle is moving its nest in SoHo into a bigger and more prominent space. After company executives' eyes bulged at the numbers from the...

  • Why Silverstein is insecure

    February 02, 2010

    The worst news buried in the gloomy arbitration decision over Larry Silverstein's beefs with the Port Authority at the World Trade Center site was the fate of the underground...

  • Meredith looks for shelter

    January 27, 2010

    The publisher of Better Homes & Gardens is itself searching for a better home. Sources say that Meredith Corp., the publishing giant that owns that title along with 172 others...


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