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• September 2020 New York New Developments
• New York New Developments The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to cut service by 40% if Washington does not send $12 billion in federal aid, crippling the city’s chances to come back from the pandemic. The timeline for the overhaul of John F. Kennedy International Airport will likely be pushed back years because of plummeting passenger demand. Passenger volume is down 85%, and officials warn that passenger numbers might not match last year’s level of nearly 62 million passengers until 2023. July was the slowest month of the year for large construction applications. The total size of the 10 biggest projects …
  
  
• April 2019 New York Commercial Real Estate Market Report
• Manhattan Office: Midtown office leasing totaled 1.60 million square feet in January. The availability rate was 10.8% up slightly and average asking rent rose more than $4 to $82.45 per square foot. Midtown South leasing totaled 550,000 square feet in January, 53% more than the same period last year. Availability rate rose to 10%, up slightly from December, with average asking rent to $82.25. Lower Manhattan office leasing totaled 910,000 square feet in January. Availability rate is 13.3%, and the average asking rent is $61.80 per square foot. Half of the leasing volume came from one deal, New York City …
  
  
• February 2018 New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings for sale: Columbia Property Trust is looking to sell a nearly 400,000-square-foot Midtown building entirely leased to NYU Langone Medical Center. the 25-story property at 222 East 41st Street, which in 2016 saw one of the bigger long-term medical-use lease deals in recent years. Joseph P. Day Realty, which has owned the 100,000-square-foot property at 9 East 40th Street for around 50 years, is now looking to sell and could fetch between $65 million and $70 million. The 18-story building sits half a block from Bryant Park, between Fifth and Madison Avenues. JPMorgan Chase, Olmstead Properties and …
  
  
• March 2016: New York Buildings For Sale
• New York Buildings sold Gary Barnett's Extell Development made another deal with the Duell family, buying four adjacent commercial buildings on Sixth Avenue in the Flatiron District for a combined $50 million. The buildings collectively have about 63,500 buildable square feet. At 116 Seventh Avenue and 204 117th Street for $11 million. Extell also bought 502 Third Avenue, a rental property with ground-floor retail, from the family for another $11 million around the same time.Extell Development is in talks to buy a Greenwich Village commercial property with substantial development rights from the Duell family. 530 Sixth Avenue is an existing …
  
  
• September 2013: NYC Buildings For Sale
• NYC Buildings For Sale Developer Centaur Properties has paid $45 million to acquire a West Chelsea site with close to 110,000 square feet of unused air-rights.A developer known for converting old buildings into condominiums has paid $27 million for the former Ridley Department Story on the Lower East Side.Westwood’s company purchased a five-story townhouse for $13.5 million to plant the designer’s New York City flagship. The 12,000 square-foot townhouse at 14 East 55th Street, next to the St. Regis Hotel, will hold the corporate headquarters as well as a Vivienne Westwood retail store and showroom.Northwood Investors paid $150 million for …