From the NY Post:
Muss Development's equity partner in its massive Sky View Parc complex near Flushing Meadows Park "has taken over the driver's seat" in the slow-moving, $1 billion-plus scheme, sources said.
Toronto-based private-equity firm Onex "started calling the shots," an insider said, even before it brought Related Cos. into the huge Queens project as a "consultant" with a role in apartment-sale marketing at three towers now under construction, as well as in retail leasing and management.
A Related source said the Time Warner Center developer has sent in an army of specialists before it even formalizes a deal with Onex.
Related will have no equity. But the arrangement would seem to open the door to the Stephen M. Ross-led development giant to one day land such a role in Joshua and Jason Muss's second trio of planned luxury apartment towers at the site, for which no start date is set.
The source close to Related said the company understood that there's "full commitment" for Muss and Onex to put up the three additional towers, but noted, "it would be timed to market demand."
Onex, which pumped at least $70 million into Sky View Parc, left decision-making to Muss until recently, but has since "restructured" the relationship.
5 comments:
One X? The Trib will get interested if it were triple X!
A dump that sits on a dump and is surrounded by a dump... $500K per unit???!!!! NUTS!
Muss is in a mess!
Change the complex's name to
"Low Tide Stench"....or "Da Nose Knows" the "aroma" of the Flushing River sewage.
Yeah, this is a spec project built and marketed at upscale Asians in Flushing, post boom peak, thus is already underwater.
Asian with money are never going to live next to the cesspool location of Flushing Marina and all of brown field it's sits on and surrounded by.
Restructuring the development along with new equity and marketing will allow offerings to be priced lower or even provide rentals to the market in certain portions of the market to ride out the decade.
they have a terrible sales team.
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