New
York City developer Harry Macklowe now owns the General Motors Building after paying Conseco Inc. a record $ 1.4 billion for the 50 - story midtown Manhattan office tower.
Marchione's campaign countered that Democrats take just as readily from developer LLCs, particularly Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose campaign received $ 800,000 from LLCs linked to billionaire New
York City developer Leonard Litwin.
Among Republican voters, Trump led all GOP candidates, with 34 percent saying they'd vote for the New
York City developer if New York's GOP primary were held today.
The New
York City developer has met with Republican leaders about a possible challenge to Cuomo.
New
York City developers and builders certainly won't strike gold with the Trump administration's recent metal tariffs.
Before then, lawmakers and Cuomo must negotiate major pieces of legislation, including the renewal of a lucrative tax break program for New
York City developers that also plays a role in the criminal complaint against Skelos.
By most ways of measuring, New
York City developers are the largest source of campaign funds in the state — they accounted for 10 percent of total contributions in the last election cycle.
Heastie said there are also agreements on an affordable housing tax credit for New
York City developers and a proposal to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18.
In 2013, REBNY was joined by four New
York City developers among the state's 25 largest donors; in 2016, no individual real estate development interest made the list.
But the battle is at its fiercest in the Catskills, where major players such as Caesars and Empire Resorts — controlled by a Malaysian gambling giant — are competing with New
York City developers such as Muss Development to nab the license.
Also linked to the debate over rent stabilization is a real estate tax break that saved New
York City developers more than $ 1 billion last year.
One answer to Quinn's question: Progressives believe (with some cause) that Cuomo has abetted GOP control of the State Senate by coddling the turncoat Democrats of the IDC and approving gerrymandered district maps that aid upstate Republicans — and (with indisputable cause) that Albany is a bastion of corruption where well - heeled interests (most conspicuously, New
York City developers) can purchase favors at bargain prices.
The break for New
York City developers expired at the beginning of 2016, and Senate Republicans had backed budget language that would both renew the program and expand it into outer borough condos, a move seemingly designed to benefit breakaway Democrat Simcha Felder.
Four New
York City developers cracked the top 25 in 2013 but only one, Howard Milstein, an ally to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, made it in 2015.
Two New
York City developers, Palladium Management and SG Blocks, have formed a partnership to use repurposed shipping containers to develop multifamily and retail in the city's borough infill sites.
Not exact matches
As the New
York Times reports, the contest will supply local programmers and
developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to help them build
city - related apps for the web and smart phones.
The group and a
city councilman said at a press conference that they had uncovered evidence that Kushner Companies, the
developer headed by Kushner until early last year, had falsified more than 80 work permits involving 34 buildings in New
York.
Their cluelessness hit Mellinger when he and an employee of the New
York City - based financial - services software
developer were traveling by plane.
• Y - mAbs Therapeutics Inc, a New
York City and Denmark - based
developer of cancer treatments, raised $ 30 million in funding.
That's why in 2012 they launched New
York City - based Temboo, a repository of programming processes that
developers can use to connect to code utilities, databases and more than 100 application programming interfaces (APIs) for online services ranging from Amazon Web Services cloud storage to real - estate site Zillow.
The New
York Central accomplished this by selling its «air rights» — a new thing at the time — to real estate
developers who built neoclassical apartment towers that still line the
city's Street of Dreams, the most exclusive residential enclave in America.
Square Earth Inc., for example, a $ 2 - million New
York City - based Web - systems
developer, tried but failed to qualify for a term loan by itself.
Building homes in overseas markets like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia or New
York City and marketing them to investment - minded buyers back home has become a cottage industry for China's larger property
developers, who also promote the strategy as a way to help export China's industrial overcapacity.
The author founded an anti-corruption campaign that resulted in putting «a couple of municipal politicians and a
developer in jail,» and she was subsequently elected to council for the
City of
York.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New
York City, Quovo partnered with SoFi to present How Quovo & SoFi Perfected Bank Authentication at our
developers conference, FinDEVr New
York 2017.
Squeezing New
York City condo
developers further is the fact that many of the active players in the construction lending space have been alternative lenders that charge higher rates.
Shopify eCommerce website
developer New
York City.
«The job comes with many risks, including the ability to repay, cost of maintenance, plumbing repairs needed, electric blackouts, appliances that break, local and state regulations, fire codes, and taxes and insurance required,» says Arik Kislin, real estate
developer and CEO of New
York City - based Linx Industries.
With active engagements in excess of $ 400 million, BCG is currently overseeing construction of projects for some of New
York City's most esteemed
developers.
With 350 million people slated to move into urban China in the next 20 years,
developers are erecting the floor - space equivalent of two New
York Cities every year.
FCR's assets total about $ 11 billion and include projects that formed its legacy as one of the
city's most ambitious
developers: MetroTech in Brooklyn, the Frank Gehry - Designed 8 Spruce Street and the New
York Times Building at 620 Eighth Avenue.
Prior to joining the casino resort in 2016, Beford worked for restaurant and nightlife
developer The TAO GROUP, where he managed hospitality offerings for the Dream Hotel brand in New
York City.
Perry is a food writer, photographer and recipe
developer based in New
York City.
He's a greedy
developer - type out of New
York City.
New
York City has a rental control system designed to prevent the wealthy from exploiting the poor (with mixed results) and many other places in the U.S. have affordable housing system that creates some stock of affordable priced, price controlled housing at the expense of
developer who want to sell market priced housing.
Yet its donors include groups and individuals with wide - ranging business with the
City of New
York — including the American Federation of Teachers,
developer Two Trees Management and supporters of the effort to ban horse carriages in Central Park.
Spitzer is the son of the successful New
York developer Bernard Spitzer, whose Spitzer Engineering built several famous residential properties including The Corinthian (once the largest apartment building in New
York City) and 200 Central Park South.
She commented about the problem of getting
developers to commit to actually building what they promise to build, and noted that this problem is endemic to the land use process in New
York City generally.
hether it came out of love, or out of convenience, there is little question that New
York City's top landlords and
developers are wedded to their politicians.
«It's hard to make a case that right now
developers need a tax incentive because New
York City is in the process of a building boom,» Sheinkopf said.
It has strong positions on several issues sunsetting in June, including the 421a and J - 51 tax abatement programs as well as rent control in New
York City, which
developers oppose expanding.
Whether it came out of love, or out of convenience, there is little question that New
York City's top landlords and
developers are wedded to their politicians.
Ten of the biggest landlords and
developers in New
York City together donated approximately $ 6.5 million to political campaigns between 2013 and 2014, according to a Commercial Observer analysis of the most recent election cycle and state campaign finance records.
«It's hard for a business person who has business interests in New
York City to tell the mayor no, especially real estate
developers,» Peebles said.
Major real estate
developers, using limited liability companies, funneled six figures in donations to the Democratic Organization of Queens County in the time before U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley, its chair, selected gentrification - friendly Councilmember Corey Johnson as the new speaker of the New
York City Council.
Developer Forest
City: $ 90.8 million for the Bank of New
York Mellon building — in Brooklyn (for non-Americans, Midtown and Brooklyn are not any part of WTC or its environs).
The New
York City Council passed 18 bills as part of the Stand for Tenant Safety package of legislation that promises sweeping reforms to tenant protections in the face of abusive landlords and
developers.
The
city's major
developers, represented by the Real Estate Board of New
York, have balked at Mr. Cuomo's insistence that 421a projects pay union labor rates.
DNAinfo New
York reported earlier this week that federal authorities were scrutinizing de Blasio's 2013 campaign for possible straw donors and how a
developer with business before the
city said it was hard to say no when the mayor called and requested a $ 20,000 for one of his nonprofits in 2014.
But it has been delayed due a legal dispute between Kingsbridge National Ice Center, the project's
developer, and the New
York City Economic Development Corporation, which de Blasio controls.