Stuy Town Owners Triggering Default, Officially

When Tishman Speyer and BlackRock assembled $6.29 billion from a long roster of investors and lenders to bid on Stuveysant Town in late 2006, their prize was the biggest sale ever by price of an individual property. (The complex was sold for $5.4 billion, and another $900 million was rounded up for reserves and capital Read More

Tenants Want Protections After Stuy Town Default

Looks like the tenants at Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village are viewing the impending default on the 11,200-apartment property with some hope they can get new layers of protection from market rate conversions. The Times reported that owners Tishman Speyer and BlackRock, along with their investors, will miss a debt payment Friday, plunging the $5.4 Read More

O Stuy Town!

Three years ago this month, Stuyvesant Town was a bees’ nest of tenant activism. Rallies with bullhorns, press conferences and elected officials littered the 80-acre brick city on the East Side. The reason? MetLife was selling the longtime middle-class enclave that was Stuy Town and Peter Cooper Village, and the tenants, terrified of the pressure Read More

Stuy Town Brings All the Boys to the Yard

Looks like Tishman Speyer is ramping up its campaign to attract the kind of new market-rate renters that long-time Stuy Town and Cooper Village residents hate: kids fresh out of college who pile into units to keep the rent down (and tend to be the ones responsible for beer cans and vomit in the morning). Read More

Mort’s Bad News Good News for Market

Much as we’re occasionally charmed by the artificially youthful Mort Zuckerman, what’s bad for Boston Properties, which he chairs, is sometimes good for New York City’s leasing market.

The postponement of Boston Properties’ plan to erect a $1 billion glass glacier of a skyscraper at 55th Street and Eighth Avenue has hurled two big Read More