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Clear! Rudins Revive Village Hospital, Save Landmark

Nearly a year after St. Vincent’s closed, a hospital is returning to Greenwich Village, albeit a much smaller one. St. Vincent and North Shore-Long Island Jewish have just announced a deal that, along with developer Rudin Management, will place an emergency care facility within the O’Toole Building, the distinctive “overbite building” on the west side Read More

Awards

And the Golden Apple Goes To …

“Everybody’s bitchin’ because there’s been too much competition.” 

And so Newmark Knight Frank’s Jimmy Kuhn kicked off the star panel at this year’s Capital Markets in Real Estate Global Markets Recovery with an unintential real estate rap.

Sadly, not all real estate gurus can rhyme, but everyone’s got some talent. We bring you the juicy Read More

Mad Men Stretching at Rudin Tower

Publicis, the advertising firm that somehow convinced Chevy Chase to reprise his hilariously hapless Clark Griswold character during the Super Bowl, all to market a little-known house-swapping Web site called HomeAway, will consolidate its New York operations at Bill Rudin‘s 35-story tower at Broadway and 52nd Street.

Publicis employees Read More

Op-Ed: Getting in Front of the Liquidity Crisis

Toward the end of 2008, the meltdown in the financial and residential mortgage markets led to a credit crisis that froze lending nationwide. Over the course of the past year, analysts have been forecasting another looming credit crisis—this time with the commercial real estate market.

What makes this latest threat to U.S. lending Read More

Real Estate Titans Gather, Express Commercial Confidence

Amid increasingly apocalyptic prophecies about the fate of  New York’s commercial property market, more than a dozen “Masters of Real Estate” convened at the Metropolitan Club on Tuesday for an eponymous conference hosted by The Observer devoted to making sense of the market’s troubles. The major players appear to have emerged from the Read More

The Other Shoe

Almost from the moment that the financial industry entered its tailspin a year ago, landlords and developers began to sound the warnings that commercial real estate would be the other shoe to drop in the economy. Then early in the Obama administration, regulators threw the real estate industry a bone, expanding a financial rescue program, Read More