Archive for February, 2010
When Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez moved to 15 Central Park West, he joined an A-list of bankable stars and star bankers who have settled at one of Manhattan’s hottest addresses.
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Funding to Create, Preserve 397 Affordable Rental, Homeownership Units (PRWeb Feb 26, 2010)
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United Law Group clients continue to benefit from the firm’s ongoing litigation efforts. Dr. Vanessa Taylor of Norco received a permanent loan modification that reduced the rate from 9.5% to 4.98% for her disabled, aged parents who found themselves in a predatory loan. This will save the couple $288,600 over the 26-year life of the loan. Dr. Taylor’s ARM which was over 8% is now set at 4.9% rate. (PRWeb Feb 26, 2010)
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Not many New Yorkers would call an area of the Bronx packed with people, national retail, city buses, slightly decaying housing stock and a booming commercial infrastructure precious. To some, though, thats exactly what the neighborhoods around East Fordham Road, Fordham University,
Crappy real estate market or not, it seems the state of California is in even more dire straits. So follows a plan to sell off a number of state office buildings — 24 across 11 sites — and then lease them back. According to the general services director, California would be “freeing up hundreds of millions of dollars to help the citizens of California by retiring billions of debt.” San Francisco buildings that are being sloughed off include the big rounded Public Utilities Commission building at 505 Van Ness, and two more at 350 McAllister and 455 Golden Gate. [LAT]
It’s time now to end our hard-hitting, weeklong investigative report into which San Francisco building is too ugly to live. The surprise winner: The City Center, the suburban-style big box fortress on the corner of Geary and Masonic. After Fox Plaza was independently nominated about a dozen times, it seemed like we would have a sure winner in the brutalist brown building on Market. But out of the 1157 votes tallied by this morning, Fox Plaza had received 201 votes, while City Center had pulled ahead to take the lead with 248 votes. Shown above is a MapJack photo of the plaza in its Mervyn’s heyday — the discount clothing store has since shuttered, as we all know, leaving an already pretty lifeless street front even more zombiefied. Curbed readers have spoken: if any building in San Francisco should be demolished purely for ugliness, it’s this one. (Take notice, forces that be.)
2. Fox Plaza (201 votes)
3. Marriott Marquis (99 votes)
4. One Rincon Hill (84 votes) [Photo via Flickr/Troy Holden]
5. Holiday Inn on Van Ness (63 votes, tied)
5. Old AAA buildings on Van Ness (63 votes, tied)