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Big profit in Little Italy

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An investor who paid $10 million for a Little Itlay building has just sold it for $22.25 million. Josh Goldflam, managing principal of Manhattan based investment sales firm Highcap Group, says the deal is a perfect illustration of how well-located Manhattan buildings are still achieving prices that are comparable to the values seen in the boom years. “The building has been totally upgraded and renovated in recent years and the apartments are gorgeous,” said Goldflam,
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$11 billion down the drain

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By Al Barbarino Nearly $11 billion dollars went down the drain during the hey day of the mid-2000s real estate boom as prospecting developers delved into an easy flow of cash to finance projects that were based more on bright ideas than basic fundamentals.
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City reassures nervous workforce after elevator tragedy

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As experts continued their investigation into the cause of a freak elevator accident that killed a Madison Avenue office worker last week, the city’s Buildings Department was reassuring a nervous workforce of its safety According to DOB spokesman Anthony Sclafani, fatal elevator accidents are rare in New York — 2008 was the last time anyone was killed — and engineers and city officials continually work to improve elevator safety. Last Wednesday morning, engineers from Transel Elevator Inc, a Manhattan-based elevator maintenance company, were performing electrical work on elevators at 285 Madison when advertising executive Suzanne Hart was killed after stepping into the elevator from the building's lobby.
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Retail deal offers food for thought

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By Liana Grey Chop’t, a chain of salad bars with several Manhattan locations, just leased a 1,909 s/f retail space on the ground floor of … Continued
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Hines comes full circle at 1 Jackson

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Developer Hines announced the sale of the retail condominium at One Jackson Square to American Realty Capital for $22.5 million. ONE JACKSON SQUARE The retail … Continued
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Cornell to build new science campus on Roosevelt Island

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Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute are to build a new two million square feet applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island. In addition to the Roosevelt Island site, the City will also provide $100 million in City capital to assist with site infrastructure, construction, and related costs. The new campus is expected generate more than $23 billion in overall economic activity over the course of the next three decades, as well as $1.4 billion in total tax revenue. The campus alone will help create up to 20,000 construction jobs and up to 8,000 permanent jobs.
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A new APPtitude

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By Liana Grey Several years ago, retailers began inserting electronic billboards into video games. Sony has an advertisement in the virtual world Second Life, and the Adidas logo is splashed across a soccer stadium in the game FIFA. Last winter, Century21 applied a similar strategy to real estate marketing and tapped into mobile gaming — a move that earned the firm’s chief marketing officer, Bev Thorne, a Stevie Award for Women in Business several weeks ago.
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Deal closes for note at tangled up Thread

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A chunk of the luxury Thread condominium in Union City, NJ, has just been sold after the developer defaulted on his mortgage. Things at the much-lauded Thread Condominium, located at 3312 Hudson Avenue, appear to have unraveled after the developer failed to pay off his loan when the housing market turned south.
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Too much holiday cheer can squash seasonal home sale

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As she does at the start of every holiday season, Neila Deen, director of sales and business development at RealDirect, recently sent out an email blast to clients reminding them to tone down their Christmas and Hanukkah decorations. “I tell sellers to keep them simple, elegant, and to a minimum,” she said. “Even a simple thing, such as a child’s snowflake cutout on the window, shouldn’t be there. You want to let light in, and show the view.” Few sellers list their apartments in December, and many remove their homes from the market between Thanksgiving and New Year. But for those who do, overdoing the decorations can derail a sale …