Subject: Tishman Speyer Properties LP

• The Hudson Railyard Bids Are In

  October 11, 2007

• The End of the Landmark Eatery Era?

  (photo courtesy tavernonthegreen.com)The fates of two of the city's landmark restaurants are growing ever bleaker. An untold number of tourists may soon be hungry and disappointed. It seems the Rainbow Room drama has come to an end. Court documents show that the Cipriani family has agreed to clear out of the legendary restaurant by August 1st in a settlement with landlords Rockefeller Center Properties and Tishman Speyer. The landlords moved to evict the Ciprianis at the end of last year for unp

  February 4, 2009

• Yankee Lobbyists on Taxpayers' Tab

  July 18, 2006

• Campaign Cash

  Vallone Leads Pack in Real Estate Dollars

  January 25, 2000

• Bloomberg Keeps His Billions Separate From His Mayoral Obligations? Yeah, Right!

  September 1, 2009

• Stuy Town Owners Back in Court to Defend Jacked-Up Rents

  After nearly three years of veritable civil war between two powerful real estate executives and thousands of tenants, the owners of the historic downtown residential complexes, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, will appear in court again today. Landlords Jerry and Rob Speyer, and their partner, private equity giant BlackRock Realty, will face an Albany appeals court judge in an attempt to overturn a March verdict which said that the landlords owed hundreds of million dollars in rent re

  September 10, 2009

• Tishman Loses Stuy Town Fight; May Have to Pay $200 Million, Default

  When Tishman Speyer Properties took thousands of units in Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village -- longtime middle-class bastions on the edge of the hyper-gentrified East Village -- out of regulation and raised rents, tenants sued and a court found that the properties could not be deregulated, because Tishman and former owner Met Life enjoyed J-51 tax breaks and building assistance from the city. So Tishman took the case to the Second New York State Court of Appeals, which today upheld the p

  October 22, 2009

• After Stuy Town Decision, Experts See Real Estate Market "Collapse." Really?

  When a state appeals court decision came down today that private equity-backed realty company Tishman Speyer illegally converted thousands of Stuyvesant Town tenants into luxury units, the company pleaded with the judge that the ruling could be a death blow. Tishman and its partner, the firm Black Rock Realty, do have troubles: they already owe bondholders $1 billion more than the property is worth. The companies are at risk of defaulting on a $3 billion loan, and now they owe thousands of ten

  October 22, 2009

• Stuy Town Tenants Don't Get a Break on November Rents, Despite Ruling

  After last week's landmark Stuyvesant Town decision -- in which a state appeals court found that the mega-developer Tishman Speyer had misused city tax breaks and illegally converted to market rate thousands of rent-controlled apartments in the historic complex -- one would expect some confusion. But one wouldn't expect the tenants whose apartments were illegally deregulated to be told that, at least for now, they should continue paying market-rate rents. But that's just what tenants are being

  October 27, 2009

• The Mayor's Press Pass

  October 27, 2009

• Stuy Town/Peter Cooper mortgage changes hands

  ​Tishman Speyer and BlackRock, the owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, turned over the main mortgage for the 11,200-unit complex to a "special servicer". Special servicers are given the power to renegotiate the terms of a failing loan and possibly sell the assets to pay off bondholders holding $3 billion in bonds. The current value of the building is thought to be $1.8 billion.

  November 7, 2009

• A Thanksgiving Honor Roll: NYC's Unsung Heroes

  November 24, 2009