• 08 May 2009 at 1:38 PM

Anyone In The Market For A 200,000 Square Foot Bachelor Pad?

By Bess Levin

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.

Comments (31)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    bathroom’s like the port authority? sign me up.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    Who supposedly was going to take it?

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    @- George Constantin, Heritage Realty.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    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.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    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.

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:56 PM

    a place to park big asses ! holla

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:57 PM

    @7: best laugh I had all day.

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    the $20mil deposit should keep that commercial paper safe til… next month!

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    they now refer to themselves as RBS securities

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    cliff asness is in.

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 2:10 PM

    http://www.stationstops.com/2008/08/14/greenwich-anthrax-scare-evacuates-building-fbi-investigates/
    RBS on the left. AQR on the right.

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 2:14 PM

    Favorite movie: Dr. Zhivago – that and the hair line say his wife fills out his profile page. No wonder he needed a pad.

  13. 13
    Posted by er666 | May 8, 2009 at 2:15 PM

    Fred Goodwin probably called in the bomb threat.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    AQR will expand into that office space and more than double their ability to produce TPS reports.
    Just Sayin’

  15. 15
    Posted by Anal_yst | May 8, 2009 at 2:24 PM

    $150/sqft in Greenwich? HAHA, good luck getting even half that.

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM

    What’s with the airbrushed picture of that guy anyway? Looks like he’s made of plastic.

  17. 17
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 2:50 PM

    @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.

  18. 18
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    @18- can Tontine even afford the office space they have anymore?

  19. 19
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 2:58 PM

    @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%.

  20. 20
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM

    @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.

  21. 21
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM

    Stevie C should take the place…or is it not secluded enough?

  22. 22
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 3:05 PM

    “fixer-upper” is the mother of all understatements. the place is a shithole.

  23. 23
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM

    @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.

  24. 24
    Posted by guest | May 8, 2009 at 4:34 PM

    What’s up with all the fly fishing these wups do?
    Introspectively – TOGFD

  25. 25
    Posted by guest | May 9, 2009 at 9:51 AM

    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.

  26. 26
    Posted by guest | May 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM

    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:)

  27. 27
    Posted by guest | May 9, 2009 at 6:19 PM

    it should come with a cook and cleaner but it’s better if it comes with blow job doer.
    _Gynecologist Guy from Delaware_

  28. 28
    Posted by guest | May 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM

    so what are you going to do about it?

  29. 29
    Posted by Channery | December 13, 2011 at 1:04 PM

    Thanks for introducing a little raitonailty into this debate.

  30. 30
    Posted by djssiykg | December 14, 2011 at 6:51 AM

    18McWU pjudmmmoamzd

  31. 31
    Posted by pdjoxumt | December 15, 2011 at 4:58 AM

    FRxa41 scujqwhgahgl

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