Category: commercial real estate

First Picture & Info on Starwood Capital & Tribeca Associates 53rd Street Hotel Project

| June 18, 2011 | 0 Comments
First Picture & Info on Starwood Capital & Tribeca Associates 53rd Street Hotel Project

After looking at Tribeca Associates website for information on their new hotel project with Starwood Capital, I came across a picture and some basic information on this large project.

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What Almost Became The Biggest Little DealBreaker for 1 WTC

| June 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

Amazing how a kitchen vent almost became the deal breaker for Conde Nast’s lease at 1 WTC.

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Insights into Shopping Center Department Store Leases – And Apple’s Impact On Them

| June 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

As the Apple Stores located in malls throughout America grow in popularity, the scales of power are starting to tip in their direction and away from the anchor stores.

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The Meadowland’s Xanadu Getting New Name and Developer

| April 29, 2011 | 0 Comments
The Meadowland’s Xanadu Getting New Name and Developer

One of the biggest developments on the East coast that was caught up in the recession is Xanadu located in the Meadowlands, adjacent to the Giants Stadium and the New Jersey Turnpike. First planned almost 10 years ago, it was finally built, but never finished. It’s a huge monstrosity that takes up over 2.4 million [...]

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Starwood Capital Buys 1414 Ave of the Americas for Hotel Conversion

| January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment
Starwood Capital Buys 1414 Ave of the Americas for Hotel Conversion

In the last few hours my email inbox has been bombarded with news that Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital has purchased 1414 Ave of the Americas in Manhattan for a conversion into a hotel. This is pretty exciting news because its one of the first purchases that Starwood has made in years on a property to [...]

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Riviera Finally Might Be Under Starwood Capitals Control

| July 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

All the news out of Vegas in the past few days has been about the Riveria being put into bankruptcy, with Starwood Capital being one if the mortgage holders who pushed for the bankruptcy filing. My friends over at VegasChatter seem to think this could be the first Barry Sternlicht-ing of Vegas since the days [...]

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Starwood Capital Now Has The Rio Casino In It’s Sights

| April 26, 2010 | 0 Comments

Another day, another casino on its way to being bought out for cheap. Another day, another casino in the sights of the Starwood Capital Group. What’s going on here? It’s interesting to watch how Starwood Capital has shown so much interest in Las Vegas casinos over the past month or so – the past few [...]

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My Thoughts on Dubai

| November 30, 2009 | 4 Comments

Just some of my thoughts on Dubai’s monetary woes..

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iStar Financial Takes Over Asbury Partners

| November 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

I’ve written about Asbury Park’s redevelopment in the past, because of my personal attachment to the town I grew up in (even if it wasn’t the greatest place for a kid to ride his bike around the block). Asbury Park always seems to be on its way to a renaissance, and then some external factor comes and sets it back a few years.

I’ve just learned that Asbury Partners, the Master Developer of the town has essentially been foreclosed upon by its lender: iStar Financial. With that, iStar is taking over the Master Developer designation. Sounds great right?

Well – unless I’m mistaken.. iStar is a real estate finance company. Not a developer.

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Starwood Hotels Moving Headquarters 20 Minutes Away to Stamford, CT

| November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

After a 3 1/2 year search, Starwood Hotels is moving their headquarters to Stamford, CT in January 2012 in a building that Starwood is calling a “brand showcase”.

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Starwood Capital Has An Impressive Showing In Hotel Magazine’s “325 Largest Hotel Companies”

| July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

This years HOTELS Magazine 325 Worlds Largest Hotel Companies list is showing that Starwood Capital is coming out of almost nowhere and jumping to number 8 on the list. Pretty impressive for a company that a few years ago seemed like it would never again be a major player in the hotel business.

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