Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Thu, 15 May 2008 04:47:04 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Articles from the Real Estate Section of The New York Sun. http://www2.nysun.com/section/22 istoll@nysun.com (Ira Stoll) webmaster@nysun.com en-us CANDACE TAYLOR http://www2.nysun.com/real-estate/stood-up-jilted-and-abandoned-100-church-st/ Wed, 14 May 2008 23:46:22 EST Renovations are set to begin on the façade at 100 Church St. in the next two weeks, a face-lift the landlord aims to use to attract tenants to a 21-story office building that has sat almost half-empty since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. After losing a widely publicized lease 10 days ago when Newsweek magazine balked, choosing to move to SoHo instead, the landlord, the Sapir Organization, is sitting on some 400,000 square feet of space that has been vacant for almost seven years... Staff Reporter of the Sun http://www2.nysun.com/real-estate/web-site-seeks-to-take-real-estate-networking/ Wed, 14 May 2008 23:46:22 EST Ryan Slack was waiting in the coat-check line last year following a networking event — a real estate mixer sponsored by the Web site PropertyShark.com — when he overheard a conversation between two men ahead of him. The men, who were each holding a stack of business cards, said the party was the best networking event they'd ever been to, Mr. Slack, who at the time was PropertyShark's chief executive officer, said. Mr. Slack was pleased with their reaction, but nonetheless wondered how to... MICHAEL STOLER http://www2.nysun.com/real-estate/gauging-the-slowdowns-impact-on-office-space/ Wed, 14 May 2008 23:46:22 EST The biggest question in the minds of real estate executives is what effect the Wall Street layoffs and the prospect of a recession will have on New York City's commercial office marketplace. "Nearly 50,000 Jobs Slashed This Year: More Lehman Pain" a headline warned in the May 10 edition of the Wall Street Journal. On Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase announced that 50% of employees at Bear Sterns would be axed, and the bank announced plans to eliminate about 1 million square feet of its office space in... CARTER B. HORSLEY http://www2.nysun.com/real-estate/abs-of-steel/ Wed, 14 May 2008 23:46:22 EST Survival of the fittest is the often the best way to describe life in the highly competitive world of luxury residential condominium development. That may explain why a couple of new towers have "abs" — protruding elements on a building's façade that indicate strength and good health, and not, of course, the midriffs bared at fitness centers. Two new towers showing off abs are Platinum, at 247 W. 46th St., and the Atelier, at 635 W. 42nd St. One of the city's most prolific architects of... CANDACE TAYLOR http://www2.nysun.com/real-estate/building-sales-report-may-be-bad-news-for-city/ Wed, 14 May 2008 23:46:22 EST In what likely portends to a tough year for real estate sales, a new report shows the number of apartment buildings sold citywide plunged during the second half of 2007, though sales prices increased slightly. The report to be released today by the brokerage firm Massey Knakal Realty Services is one of the first to look at the pace of building sales during the second half of last year. It found that the number of apartment buildings sold fell 16.9% compared with the first half of 2007, to...