Today's your lucky day! 'Cause as of last night, the guy who was supposed to buy the building currently inhabited by RBS Greenwich Capital (though they're moving people to the new place in Stamford like now) on Steamboat Road hadn't done anything about finalizing the purchase. Supposedly he may walk away from the $20 million deposit and then this baby can be yours. Apparently she's a fixer-upper (GC tenants say the place is "quite grubby after 14 years of packin 'em in," with bathrooms "reminiscent of the Port Authority") but there's 350 feet of dock space and a big ass parking lot for all the entertaining you'll be doing in the new pad. Interested buyers (and we can think of one very worthy one in particular) should contact General Re, or just go through us and we'll quote you a finder's fee.
Anyone In The Market For A 200,000 Square Foot Bachelor Pad?
Posted by Bess Levin, May 08, 2009, 1:38pm
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Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:45PM
bathroom's like the port authority? sign me up.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:48PM
Who supposedly was going to take it?
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:51PM
@2- click the "this guy" link.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:53PM
@- George Constantin, Heritage Realty.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:55PM
H'mm you should also buy the building that contains the AQR main-office a 100 feet away. Wouldn't be too difficult to throw those guys on to the streets of Greenwich.
true story:
The bomb and anthrax scares at that office building got old real quickly.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:55PM
The guy wanted to fix it up and rent it out for $150/square foot, and there's "For Lease" signs up all over Greenwich. Better to walk away than to fix it up and lose a bundle.
Plus, it's an extra $20 mil for Warren B.'s walking-around money.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:56PM
a place to park big asses ! holla
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:57PM
@7: best laugh I had all day.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:58PM
the $20mil deposit should keep that commercial paper safe til... next month!
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 1:58PM
they now refer to themselves as RBS securities
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 2:02PM
cliff asness is in.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 2:10PM
http://www.stationstops.com/2008/08/14/greenwich-anthrax-scare-evacuates-building-fbi-investigates/
RBS on the left. AQR on the right.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 2:14PM
Favorite movie: Dr. Zhivago - that and the hair line say his wife fills out his profile page. No wonder he needed a pad.
Posted by er666 , May 08, 2009 2:15PM
Fred Goodwin probably called in the bomb threat.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 2:21PM
AQR will expand into that office space and more than double their ability to produce TPS reports.
Just Sayin'
Posted by Anal_yst , May 08, 2009 2:24PM
$150/sqft in Greenwich? HAHA, good luck getting even half that.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 2:27PM
What's with the airbrushed picture of that guy anyway? Looks like he's made of plastic.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 2:50PM
@12: Wrong. AQR is on the right, but that is Greenwich Plaza, at the Greenwich RR station. RBS is on the water, on perpendicular Steamboat Road, pic below:
http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/tag/600-steamboat-road/
@16: seriously. I've seen A-building stuff now at $50-$60/sq ft, going begging. Not like Tontine is expanding any time soon. Cliffy desperate to sublet some of his Greenwich Plaza space, and has been for some time.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 2:55PM
@18- can Tontine even afford the office space they have anymore?
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 2:58PM
@19: Tontine can't even afford the toilet paper they have anymore. -91%, and Madoff is goign to be returning 10%, so you would have done better giving money to an out-and-out fraud than to Gendell. Truly, you have to try to be -91%.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 3:01PM
@18 My bad. However, there is an RBS office of some sort in the building on the left - I guess I haven't been paying too much attention to exactly what arm of RBS.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 3:01PM
Stevie C should take the place...or is it not secluded enough?
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 3:05PM
"fixer-upper" is the mother of all understatements. the place is a shithole.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 3:08PM
@21: Yes, I don't know what that is, but it's a small remnant which probably is on its way to Stamford to the new building, or to Bridgeport to the local unemployment office.
Posted by guest , May 08, 2009 4:34PM
What's up with all the fly fishing these wups do?
Introspectively - TOGFD
Posted by guest , May 09, 2009 9:51AM
Silverpoint (Mule, O'Shea) is on the right, first floor.
Lone Pine Capital (Mandel) is on the right, second floor.
AQR is on the right, third floor.
I'd be afraid if I owned or was lending to the building.
Posted by guest , May 09, 2009 2:12PM
Number 23 nailed it! I did 10 years of hard time in that place. It's an absolute dump. I wouldn't pee on that place if it was on fire:)
Posted by guest , May 09, 2009 6:19PM
it should come with a cook and cleaner but it's better if it comes with blow job doer.
_Gynecologist Guy from Delaware_
Posted by guest , May 11, 2009 10:32PM
so what are you going to do about it?