The proprietor of 9 West 57th Avenue, Stefan Soloviev, insists the Soloviev Group has no plans to promote the enduring property.
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The house owners of 9 West 57th Avenue insist they don't have any plans to promote the enduring property, one among Manhattan’s premier workplace towers, regardless of a bombshell report which claimed a deal was within the works.
“There are not any plans to promote the constructing,” Hayden Soloviev, a son of and a spokesman for Soloviev Group chairman Stefan Soloviev advised Realty Examine.
“The information should’ve been combined up with the residential gross sales,” Hayden Soloviev speculated. (Soloviev Group has in actual fact been promoting off a few of its luxurious rental condo buildings).
An article within the Actual Deal final month set off a wild guessing sport when it reported that Stefan was “finalizing an settlement” to promote 9 West. It cited a supply as saying that high-profile actual property investor Michael Shvo was a part of the buying group.
A supply outdoors the Soloviev household advised us, “If there ever was a bunch making an attempt to purchase 9 West, Shvo wasn’t a part of it.”
However Hayden advised us, “No, there by no means was a deal. Individuals name us on a regular basis asking us if we need to promote numerous properties, each in New York and out west. Any individual’s most likely making an attempt to make a reputation for themself.”
If such a deal have been ever to occur, it might be an enormous breakthrough for the sagging investment-sale market. The tower was final appraised at $3.4 billion in 2016.
The skyscraper enjoys a mythic stature in Manhattan industrial actual property, so distinctive that it’s often known as merely “9 West.” Accomplished by the late developer Sheldon Solow, Stefan’s father, in 1972, it's famed for its huge presence on the block between Fifth and Sixth avenues, unparalleled Central Park views, and top-tier tenants.
It was additionally recognized for bitter authorized battles between Solow and former tenants resembling Morgan Warranty Belief, Avon, and Arista Data when Solow alleged that they didn’t correctly restore their areas after they moved out.
Tenants in right this moment’s extra peaceable occasions embrace Apollo International Administration, D1 Capital Companions, Chanel, and, most not too long ago, Loews Corp., which signed for 65,000 sq. toes in October. Rents within the 1.4 million-square-foot tower are within the $200 per sq. foot vary.
Hayden Soloviev additionally advised us that plans stay on observe to open the tower’s controversial, tax-exempt artwork gallery to the general public — as we first reported in January.
“As we’ve acknowledged beforehand, my father plans to open the gallery within the second half of 2023, when the transforming of 9 West 57th Avenue finishes. The gallery shall be at 9 West 57th Avenue,” Hayden mentioned.
The gallery shows masterpieces by Matisse, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon however they’re solely seen from the road. Critics have lengthy argued that as a result of the household artwork basis enjoys tax-exempt standing, the gallery needs to be open to the general public as IRS guidelines require.
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