Thursday, June 14, 2012

Baiting buyers with gummy bears


From The Real Deal:

The sales team behind Flushing’s $1 billion luxury condominium towers Skyview Parc won’t be marketing tower two until towers one and three are 75 percent sold. And that isn’t expected to happen until spring 2013, Helen Lee, the director of the Onex Group, which is marketing the building, told The Real Deal. As The Real Deal previously reported, towers two and three recently hit the 50 percent sold mark. Lee said that the prices of units in tower two, which Onex touts as having Skyview’s best light and Manhattan views, have not yet been determined.

The development recently celebrated the opening of “dEmo at the Parc,” an alfresco exhibit featuring the work of the Spanish artist Eladio de Mora, who is known as dEmo. In the four-acre rooftop garden, which boasts a tennis court, a playground and a putting course, dEmo’s 30 rainbow-colored plastic “gummy bears” of various sizes were on display. Top-40 hits played from a D.J. booth added to the promotional event’s playful vibe.

The event’s curator, Maria Boobis of Flushing’s Crossing Art, told The Real Deal that the artist’s goal was simply to make the party’s 81 brokers and 189 residents, guests and VIPs smile.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOL !!

"To the rescue.
This project is in deep bear poo-poo.

G-R-R-R-R....rah, rah, rah....
go, go, go....my fellow gummy bears.

Let's do it for the team"!

LOL !!!!

Anonymous said...

Does a bear shit in the woods?

Sky View ain't doin' so well, is it?

ex-gov.a.schwarzenegger said...

Ja, der bear shitz in der voods. Und zo do I. Itz very hellty und natchurel. Sqvatting alvays bilts der leck mussels. Hahr-hahr!

Anonymous said...

As The Real Deal previously reported, towers two and three recently hit the 50 percent sold mark. Lee said that the prices of units in tower two, which Onex touts as having Skyview’s best light and Manhattan views, have not yet been determined.

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Ho is it 50% sold if the prices haven't been determined?!

Anonymous said...

I think they meant towers one and three.
That's a great way to sell units. We won't offer the "best" units for sale to you, you have to buy the less desirable (it's a fine line) units so the better units can be offered to someone else. I hope the investors lose their shirts.

Anonymous said...

The immigrants settling in Flushing can't afford to buy housing. They can only rent and that's with sharing the load with other family members.
The area is still a slum. The bay surrounding the building stinks at low tide.
The area is too congested.
Who would want to buy here?
Many 1st generation Chinese Americans are high-tailing it out of Flushing and moving to Fresh Meadows, Bayside, and Forest Hills, where quality of life is better.

Anonymous said...

"Hello Kitty" would be more appropriate.

Anonymous said...

Tate notorious criminal developer Tommy Huang used to lie about his buildings being fully occupied too.

His relatives held the deeds to most of the condos units he built and were renting them out.

That's a very old real estate maneuver.

Muss f----d himself in the ass when he built these pieces of crap.

Gary the Agnostic said...

"Maria Boobis"?