Council Hands a Rare Defeat to Related Over Armory Project [Updated]
The City Council is preparing to hand a defeat Monday to the Related Companies, the normally-successful development powerhouse that sought to turn the giant Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a mall....
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Related Not a Total Loser Today: Council O.K.’s Key West Side Rail Yards...
While the Related Companies on Monday was handed a rare, high-profile rebuke by the City Council over its $323 million Kingsbridge Armory retail project, the giant developer did happen to win the...
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Bloomberg’s Related (Cos.) Events
For the second day in a row, Mayor Bloomberg is headed to the West Side for a late morning press conference. And, once again, the mayor will be hailing progress on a development project by the Related...
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Another Two Months for Related at Rail Yards; Goldman Bails as Partner
Giant developer Related Companies will have another two months before it must sign a contract with the M.T.A. to develop the West Side rail yards, Manhattan's largest remaining development site,...
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Silverstein, Douglaston, Related Vying to Develop Willets Point
World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein, Queens developer Jeff Levine and Related Cos. chairman Stephen Ross are among those seeking to develop Willets Point, the polluted, 62-acre auto repair...
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M.T.A. Set to Approve Related’s West Side Rail Yards Mega-Deal (Again)
A $1 billion deal to develop the giant West Side rail yards is up for approval by an M.T.A. committee on Monday, as the development giant Related Companies has nearly completed an agreement with the...
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For Steve Ross, Rail Yards Rent Starts When Apartments Cost $1,200 a Foot
The M.T.A. on Monday made public its new $1 billion deal with Stephen Ross' Related Companies to develop the West Side rail yards, and in it are some details about just when the agency can start to...
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Related and the Wilpons Team Up for Willets Point Pitch
A handful of developers are competing to redevelop the so-called "Iron Triangle." (The NYC Economic Development Corporation) While some people are hoping—futilely, perhaps—for a high-tech college at...
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600,000 Square Feet of Office Space in the Bag for Coach
Luxury handbag stalwart Coach will relocate its offices to the Hudson Yards, scooping up approximately one-third of the planned south office tower as a commercial condo in a deal that will give the New...
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Construction Attorney Warns, Developers need to Get off the Sidelines and do...
He’s the Cassandra of the construction industry, the rabble-rouser of rubble. Attorney Barry LePatner, founder of LePatner & Associates LLP and author of construction shock books Too Big to Fall:...
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What’s MIPIM? In NYC, Nobody Knows.
It’s not just the biggest real estate conference no one has heard of. It’s the biggest real estate conference period. And, yes, most real estate professionals, at least in New York, haven’t heard of...
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To REIT or Not To REIT: The Question
Having spent time working with ownership groups that operated like Real Estate Investment Trusts, working for The Winter Organization has been a welcome change for Robert Fink, who joined the group...
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Financing in Place for Related’s 500 West 30th Street Tower
Wells Fargo has provided a $190 million construction loan for the Related Co.’s multifamily development at 500 West 30th Street, just off the Hudson Yards development site. The 32-story tower will...
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Campaign Finance Analysis Shows Real Estate Execs Buttering Up Multiple...
Did you ever uncover that your grandmother had numerous “favorite” grandchildren, or that your brother or sister was earning a bigger allowance? If so, you might have felt like the city’s mayoral...
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King of the Yard: Related’s Jay Cross on Reimagining the Far West Side
As president of the New York Jets, Jay Cross spent the first half of the 2000s immersed in the plans for the New York Sports and Convention Center on the Far West Side. The plan collapsed and the Jets’...
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Fourth and Long on Real Estate
Stephen Ross, chairman of Related Companies, has come under fire in recent weeks due to his ownership of the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins, a franchise that is embroiled in a bullying...
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Inside the 10th Floor of 55 Hudson Yards
55 Hudson Yards' podium. (The Related Companies) The Related Companies’ 55 Hudson Yards, a 51-story, 1.4 million-square-foot office tower rising from 11th Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets, will...
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Related Acquires Bronx Apartment Building with NYCB Loan
The Bronx is garnering more attention from a major Manhattan developer: The Related Companies. Related's real estate fund management team and New York City's pension funds purchased a 17-story...
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Deutsche Bank Finances Related High Line Acquisition
The Related Companies has closed on the acquisition of two sites along the High Line for the firm’s latest Hudson Yards development with a $125 million loan from Deutsche Bank, city records show....
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Stephen Winter: Related’s Secret Weapon For Leasing Hudson Yards
Related's Stephen Winter (image: Michael Nagle). Stephen Winter is unabashedly, unequivocally, obsessed with real estate. As a vice president of commercial leasing at Related Companies, Mr. Winter has...
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