The Weekly Walk-Through
We learned that:
There's a competition to chart the Grand Concourse's future. Public review for New Domino condo to start soon. New Gowanus rezoning details: 3,200 apartments! Big Real Estate scores big federal win on CMBS. Bank of America took control of Merrill's old 222 Broadway. Manhattan apartment rents kept a-tumbling in January. New property assessments out--outer-boroughs a little blue. MAS hosted a Coney Island forum; Mom invoked. Joe Sitt happy to talk Red Hook mall plans (details out!) but not Coney. Wowee! Garment District building trades for around $580 a foot. Nadler's $3 billion for transit chopped from final stimulus. Dolly Lenz and Ilan Bracha won big at Douglas Elliman's annual awards. Quinn: Unsold condos? Make 'em affordable housing. CMBS dilinquency rate jumped 224 percent in '08. Manhattan hotel occupancy down to '94 levels; room revenues way off, too. Atlantic Yards could get stimulus cash. Bloomberg tapped Rafael Cestero to succeed Shaun Donovan at HPD.
Copyright 2009  The New York Observer
