Category : Featured

GRAD HABITS: Students have a lot to learn about NYC apartment hunting

REW August 31, 2018 August 31, 2018

by REWAugust 31, 2018August 31, 20183431

It’s a journey that typically begins with several weeks trying in vain to traverse the city’s online real estate jungle on their own, followed by a come-to-Jesus moment in which they submit to professional guidance.

Construction & Design Featured

Myer calls on ConEd to protect untouched Williamsburg waterfront from development

REW August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018

by REWAugust 30, 2018August 30, 20183296

One of Brooklyn’s leading economic development groups is pushing Con Edison to protect one of the last, untouched stretches of the Williamsburg waterfront. Regina Myer, head of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, wants the utility company to sell a 3.2-acre land assemblage on River Street to a buyer willing to dedicate...

Construction & Design Featured

Plaza Construction introduces gender neutral worksite signs

Linda O'Flanagan August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018

by Linda O'FlanaganAugust 30, 2018August 30, 20187083

Plaza Construction is replacing its men at work signs with new gender neutral signs. The move it part of a company-wide initiative to attract more women to the industry as it faces its worst skilled worker shortage in decades. Research has shown that level of gender inequality in construction pay...

Deals & Dealmakers Featured

Suite life gives Denihan scion an edge in hotel business

REW August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018

by REWAugust 30, 2018August 30, 20182705

Since Chrissy Denihan was a little girl, she’s been around the family business of hotels and hospitality. She grew up in the Lyden House hotel, a former property of the Denihan Hospitality Group’s portfolio that has since been transferred to Rockefeller University’s ownership. During those formative years, she was exposed...

Deals & Dealmakers Featured Retail

Brookfield sells shares in three more mall properties

REW August 29, 2018 August 29, 2018

by REWAugust 29, 2018August 29, 20187500

One day after completing a $15 billion acquisition of one of the largest retail portfolio’s in the country, Brookfield Property Partners has already closed two deals for six of those properties. After the property management company wrapped up its purchase of GGP Inc. and it’s 125 retail assets on Tuesday,...

Construction & Design Featured Lawsuits

Kushner Companies faces $210,000 in fines for withholding rent-regulated info

REW August 28, 2018 August 28, 2018

by REWAugust 28, 2018August 28, 20182260

Kushner Companies faces up to $210,000 in fines for filing false documents with the New York City Department of Buildings about rent-regulated tenants. On Monday, the DOB issued 42 violations to the landlord pertaining to 17 properties in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Kushner faces similar allegations in a civil lawsuit that...

Construction & Design Featured

DOB rolls out interactive construction map

REW August 24, 2018 August 24, 2018

by REWAugust 24, 2018August 24, 20181746

New York City is in the midst of a building boom, with nearly 200 million s/f of construction in the works throughout the five boroughs. It's a lot to keep track of.

Deals & Dealmakers Featured

How ballsy Scott Barone is gonna keep on tickin in NYC

REW August 23, 2018 August 23, 2018

by REWAugust 23, 2018August 23, 20185724

After nine years of steady, if unexciting work as a general contractor, Scott Barone’s big break was supposed to come in 2008 when his firm landed a ground-up residential project in Tribeca. But that job never got on its feet. Months after Ponte Equities filed permits for the 11-story condo...

Deals & Dealmakers Featured Office Market

WeWork closing the gap in office space race

REW August 23, 2018 August 23, 2018

by REWAugust 23, 2018August 23, 20183187

WeWork is on its way to becoming that largest private office tenant in Manhattan. The co-working behemoth signed a full building 258,344 s/f lease for 368 Ninth Avenue, a 16-story building owned by TH Real Estate, an affiliate of Nuveen (the investment management arm of TIAA). It also took 69,679...

Deals & Dealmakers Featured

Anita Laremont to replace Purnima Kapur as city planning chief

REW August 22, 2018 August 22, 2018

by REWAugust 22, 2018August 22, 20182373

Planning Director Marisa Lago just announced that the department’s general counsel, Anita Laremont, will replace Purnima Kapur as DCP’s next Executive Director. Laremont will begin in her new role September 4. “With a deep mastery of land use policy and planning, legendary problem solving abilities, a storied public service career...