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Entries from August 2009

Square Feet | The 30-Minute Interview: Burton P. Resnick

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Mr. Resnick, the chairman and chief executive of Jack Resnick & Sons, owns and manages more than five million square feet of commercial space along with more than 1,500 apartments.


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For Now, It’s All Yours

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Sarah Milstein, Tony Stubblebine and Eggs spent the summer in two sublets in New York. Furnished sublets and rentals are on the rise in New York, thanks to situations ranging from job loss to wanderlust and combinations of the two.


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Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Builders covet a green certification, but many buildings do not save as much energy as their designs predicted.


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Construction That Fueled Growth in the Sun Belt Slows

August 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Areas that tasted the excesses of the housing boom are suffering as the influx of people moving from the Rust Belt has slowed.


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REITs Are Poised to Pick Up the Pieces

August 30th, 2009 · No Comments

While overleveraged private real-estate funds are gasping for money, public property companies are now poised to become more-dominant players.

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Posting: Making Way for Electric Cars

August 29th, 2009 · No Comments

A car-charging station in the parking garage of the Verdesian, a rental building in Battery Park City.Some real estate developers are getting ahead of what could be an influx of electric cars by installing car-charging stations in their apartment buildings.


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A New Spin on Emery Roth

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

An undated photograph of the Devonshire lobby.Longtime residents of the Devonshire House, a 1928 Emery Roth building, worry that the building’s distinctive lobby will be destroyed by a renovation.


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In the Region | Connecticut: Towns Accommodate ‘Affordable’

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Simsbury is taking part in a program that encourages a proactive approach to mixed-income housing — rather than having to accept a developer’s choice of site.Several Connecticut communities are planning ahead for mixed-income housing — before a developer picks out a site for them.


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Streetscapes | 19-21 Beekman Place: House of Sweetness and Spite

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Ellen Biddle Shipman, the landscape architect, bought an old brownstone on Beekman Place, and made it over in red brick in the 1920s. A later owner built a wall that partially blocked the view of the Paul Rudolph town house next door. A new owner is renovating the town house owned by the landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman.


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Get It in Writing

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

If you’re considering renting out your apartment or being a subtenant yourself, brokers and lawyers offer a few tips.


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