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David E. Green

The Repositionist of 2 Park Avenue

Even in Manhattan, a building can go stale.

In Midtown South, for example, a commercial property can amass a litany of blue-chip legal practices and financial services firms in one decade, and then, 10 years later, watch as its tenant portfolio withers in prestige.

Take 2 Park Avenue. The building once served as the base of operations for Newsday and Times Mirror Inc. back in the 1980s and 1990s and more recently for The Hartford, the Connecticut-based insurance company. Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 2/01/10 4:35pm

Elk Hunts

The Hartford insurance firm, which fled Lower Manhattan following Sept. 11 for midtown south, ending up in about 145,000 square feet at Morgan Stanley’s 2 Park Avenue, is again looking for office space, though this time at a far more leisurely pace.

The Hartford, as the insurance company is Read More