Just as workers were milling about 100 Church Street’s famously gaudy lobby at lunch hour on Aug. 26, an official from the Department of Buildings began plastering two violation notices in the windows of Bank of America on the ground floor. The citation faulted “signage,” in this case a racy advertisement for a teenage television Read More
With the announcement of two major leases at coupled with being relatively new to the game—dies hard. “They’re a tough landlord,” said one tenant-side broker who asked to remain anonymous. “In this market, I’ve got options. And I’m going to drive them towards landlords who have been really solid members of the community for a long Read More
Newsweek, which for decades has called midtown its home, is nearing a deal that would move its offices downtown to 100 Church Street. According to a source, the magazine giant has a lease out with the building’s owner, Alex Sapir, president of the Sapir Organization, though the papers have yet to be signed.
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The Observer sat down with both Donald Trump and Alex Sapir last year. The two are partners in the Trump SoHo, the new condo-hotel at 246 Spring Street where a construction worker this afternoon died in an apparent accident.
Here’s Mr. Sapir on the Trump SoHo:
Now, Trump SoHo. Some people say it’s Read More
In a decidedly unhip slice of Manhattan, two scions of New York real-estate tycoons, average age 27½, plan to create a gleaming, 45-story condo-hotel, a rarity in city development.
Alex Sapir, 26, tumbled onto the New York City real-estate radar a year ago in March, taking the reins of his father Tamir’s real-estate empire as Read More
