Holy Cow! Downtown’s Biggest Leasing Challenge

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

Claremont Prep Looking at 200K Feet in 25 Broadway

The Claremont Preparatory high school is negotiating for about 200,000 square feet at the Cunard Lines Building at 25 Broadway, according to sources familiar with negotiations. If inked, it would be one of 2009’s biggest commercial leases.

Claremont, one of educational firm MetSchool’s handful of for-profit private academies in New York City, earlier this year Read More

Schooled! Biggest Lease of ’09 Near At 100 Church

There’s a new prom queen in town. The Sapir Organization is in negotiations to lease a mega 255,000 square feet of 100 Church Street, its ersatz wallflower of an office building, to the new Claremont Preparatory High School, in what would be the biggest new lease of 2009.

The school, which will open this Read More