Mets proprietor Steve Cohen isn’t simply buying and selling gamers this summer season.
The hedge fund billionaire might also be making a commerce on the house entrance, the place his West Village fortress is unofficially in the marketplace for “effectively over” $150 million, sources inform Gimme Shelter solely.
Cohen’s spokesperson declined to remark.
The mighty 30,000-square-foot residence, at 703-711 Washington St., is a newly constructed townhouse — one thing uncommon for the historic neighborhood.
Cohen purchased 145 Perry St., on the nook of Washington, for $28.8 million in 2012.
He additionally purchased 703 Washington St. for $38.8 million the identical yr.
Then he spent years — and tens of hundreds of thousands of dollars — to create a single-family megamansion.
The lot — a former two-story parking storage — is so huge that at one level it was slated to change into a seven-story, 93-room resort. It was additionally pitched as two $20 million, six-story townhouses.
However the plan morphed right into a mansion designed by Leroy Avenue Studio, with Robert Silman Associates Structural Engineers.
This time, Cohen’s plans to promote his citadel are extra, effectively, discreet. The final time he put his private residence in the marketplace, he was in for a crushing actuality.
In 2013, Cohen listed his Midtown duplex penthouse at One Beacon Court docket — also called Bloomberg Tower — for $115 million.
However the 9,000-square-foot residence, designed by late architect Charles Gwathmey, was finally topic to a 75% value chop.
It lastly offered for $30.5 million eight years later. (It resold in April for $33 million, in keeping with property data.)
Cohen’s bronze, terracotta and wooden mansion boasts a curving staircase, an elevator, a number of fireplaces, a house theater, a chef’s kitchen, a landscaped roof deck and a rear backyard.
It had been the thing of curiosity for years till the scaffolding was eliminated final yr.
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