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FIRST LOOK: Renderings released for Jehovah’s Witnesses Watchtower buildings transformation
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FIRST LOOK: Renderings released for Jehovah’s Witnesses Watchtower buildings transformation

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by REW1921
Columbia Heights Associates – a partnership of CIM Group, LIVWRK Holdings and Kushner Companies – has released renderings of its proposed transformation of the former Watchtower buildings at 25-30 Columbia Heights. To be called Panorama, the property will become an office and retail campus  with 635,000 s/f of interconnected, customizable, Class A office space with...
Attorney Sonia Bain finding rich rewards in practice of real estate law
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Attorney Sonia Bain finding rich rewards in practice of real estate law

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by REW1936
An injured ankle is what led commercial real estate attorney Sonia Bain, a partner at the firm Bryan Cave, to the field of law. The daughter of two doctors, Bain was following them into the field of medicine while still an undergraduate at Stony Brook University, where she was also...
Ivanhoe Cambridge partners with Callahan to buy 85 Broad for $650M
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Ivanhoe Cambridge partners with Callahan to buy 85 Broad for $650M

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by REW3280
Ivanhoe Cambridge and Callahan Capital Properties have acquired 85 Broad Street for $650 million, or about $580 per s/f. The property is a 1.1 million s/f office tower occupying a full block between South Williams and Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan. The two firms acquired the property from a joint...
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High-end home staging is big business in a slow market

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by REW1913
Home staging has always been an option for sellers, but in today’s market, it’s becoming almost mandatory. While the top of the luxury market has gone soft over the last several months, some brokers are seeing the price of home staging go up as companies look to take advantage of...
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Kurland keeping it real at RECon 2017

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by REW1594
LAS VEGAS, NV – Susan Kurland has been coming here to the ICSC RECon convention for nearly 20 years, but she’s not looking to make deals. “I just meet people,” said Kurland, who meets with owners and follows up with tenants she represents. “I find you don’t really need to...
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Airbnb partners with Jersey City apartment developer to offer home sharing services to residents

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by REW1939
Jersey City Urby today announced a major collaboration with Airbnb that will make it the first new building development in the tri-state area to take part in the home sharing marketplace’s Friendly Buildings Program. Residents of the new rental development located at 200 Greene Street in the Harborside neighborhood will...
Cuomo names LeFrak, Roth to Penn Station task force
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Cuomo names LeFrak, Roth to Penn Station task force

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by REW2401
Lefrak Organization CEO Richard LeFrak and Vornado CEO Steven Roth have been named to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s task force for rehabilitating Penn Station. The developers, who were tapped to lead President Donald Trump’s infrastructure council last January, will be part of a 14-member panel responsible for overhauling the transportation hub....
Community Land Trusts gaining traction in New York
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Community Land Trusts gaining traction in New York

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by REW3322
In the crusade to slow the spread of gentrification, local communities are taking a different route, one that runs counter to New York City’s current strategy of transferring public land to for-profit developers. According to an analysis from law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, the community land trusts model, designed...