Charles Cohen’s Designs on the Future (They Include Madoff)
Charles Cohen has weathered the downturn well. The design-oriented president and CEO of Cohen Brothers Realty has been overseeing a bevy of construction and redevelopment projects nationwide, including...
View ArticleMadoff Victims’ Counsel Renews in Rockefeller Center
Baker Hostetler has renewed 120,000 square feet at 45 Rockefeller Plaza. As The Observer reported in March, the world's 85th-largest law firm, which represented Bernie Madoff's victims in their search...
View ArticleTrumpeting Change on Third
Since 2009, Gerard Nocera, Michael Reid and John Monaco have helmed Herald Square Properties, an investment and operating company that has, since launching, provided asset management services for more...
View ArticleStruggling Yeshiva University Refinances Manhattan Properties in Turnaround...
The New York-based private Orthodox Jewish institution Yeshiva University received proceeds from the sale of $175 million in taxable bonds serviced by Kansas City, Mo.-based UMB Bank to refinance five...
View ArticleHerald Square’s Gerard Nocera On Chelsea, Music Studios and the Lipstick...
Gerard Nocera, a co-founder and managing partner of the real estate investment and management firm Herald Square Properties, has experienced virtually every aspect of the commercial real estate...
View ArticleHow Batting Averages Can Impact a Stadium’s Bond Rating
Citi Field was open for six years before it saw a playoff game. From 2009 to 2014, its gates had shut for the season by the first weekend of October, when there were few fans left in the stands. When...
View ArticleRockefeller Group’s Dan Rashin on MLB, 1271 Avenue of the Americas and...
Armed with a spanking new degree from Harvard Law School, a B.A. in economics from Williams College and a couple of distinguished clerkships, Daniel Rashin began his legal career at a prestigious firm...
View ArticleDivorce Law Firm Cohen Clair Renews at Lipstick Building
Law firm Cohen Clair Lans Greifer Thorpe & Rottenstreich has agreed to renew its 13,500-square-foot space at the Lipstick Building in Midtown East, Commercial Observer has learned. Cohen Clair,...
View ArticleLaw Firm Fox Horan & Camerini Takes 19K-SF Sublease in Lipstick Building
Fox Horan & Camerini has signed a long-term deal to sublease the 19,270-square-foot 17th floor in the Lipstick Building, Commercial Observer has learned. The international law firm will be...
View ArticleBernie Madoff, Infamous Ponzi Schemer Who Bilked NYC Real Estate Community, Dies
Bernard Madoff, New York City financier and orchestrator of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history that bilked many New York City real estate figures out of millions, died in federal prison of...
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