Pier 40: Durst to the rescue
Douglas Durst wants to save crumbling Pier 40 with a half-million square feet of new, rent-producing “high-tech” facilities, office space and stores. The 15-acre relic at the foot of Houston Street, where Holland America liners once set sail across the Atlantic, now threatens to sink the finances of the Hudson River Park of which it’s part.
Date 2012-08-27
Author Steve Cuozzo
The Durst Organization Appoints Joy Habian as Director of Marketing and Robert Becker and Rocco Romeo as Senior Leasing Managers
The Durst Organization today announced the appointment of three senior managers. Joy Habian is the new Director of Marketing, Robert Becker joined the firm as the Senior Leasing Manager for One World Trade Center and Rocco Romeo is a Senior Leasing Manager overseeing portions of The Durst Organization’s Midtown West portfolio.
Author Jordan Barowitz
Durst in China
Durst in China: Development Is for Locavores <p> By Matt Chaban 7/30 7:04pm Stick to your back yard. (Durst Organization) </p><p>Leonine developer Douglas Durst might not be quite the public presence than his father Seymour once was—a regular in the letters to the editor column and on local talk shows, among other outlets for his restless mind—yet he still very much knows his way around a podium. Last week, he found himself in China, talking about New York, and he even seems to admit that the one investment his firm recently made just across the Formosa Strait might not have been…</p>
Author Matt Chaban
Durst in China: Development Is for Locavores
Leonine developer Douglas Durst might not be quite the public presence than his father Seymour once was—a regular in the letters to the editor column and on local talk shows, among other outlets for his restless mind—yet he still very much knows his way around a podium. Last week, he found himself in China, talking about New York, and he even seems to admit that the one investment his firm recently made just across the Formosa Strait might not have been its best.
Date 2012-07-30
Author Matt Chaban
Landlords Turn On Green Plumbing
Please see the below article from Crain’s New York Business Crain’s New York Business Landlords turn on green plumbing Water-saving taps, toilets used to save money and boost LEED ratings. By Anne Field Published: July 22, 2012 - 5:59 am It's hard for an office building to be greener than the new Bank of America Tower. The 54-story, 2.1 million-square-foot LEED Platinum-certified Goliath features everything from a state-of-the-art air-filtration system and its own co-generation plant that supplies 65% of the tower's energy, to something a bit more basic that most people don't talk about. The spire, also known as 1…
Date 2012-07-23
Author Anne Field