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NEW YORK, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nordstrom, Inc. has finalized an agreement with Extell Development Company to build Nordstrom's first full-line store in New York City. This new flagship store will open along Manhattan's bustling 57th Street corridor at 225 West 57th Street, between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, in the Columbus Circle area of Manhattan. The 285,000 square-foot store is expected to open in 2018. The announcement of the Extell/Nordstrom deal was announced at...
NEW YORK, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Extell Development Company announced today that ONE57, slated to be the tallest residential building in New York City, has reached a record milestone of $1 billion in sales and is 50% sold since launching just six months ago. The 90-story glass tower, which is expected to top off this July, also announced a record-breaking penthouse sale. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120518/NY10152) "Our buyers are visionaries who recognize...
By Keith Coffman BOULDER, Colorado (Reuters) - The head football coach at the University of Colorado, who kept his job despite a 2004 recruiting scandal, was fired on Thursday after his team's late season collapse. Gary Barnett, who has one year left on his contract that paid him $1.1 million annually, will get a $3 million buyout, athletic director Mike Bohn said. "No single factor or incident lead to this decision. This has to do with new leadership," Bohn said. Two lopsided losses...
By Joan Gralla NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York State agency on Wednesday approved developer Forest City Ratner Companies' $3.5 billion project in Brooklyn that combines a new arena for the Nets basketball team with 16 office and apartment buildings. Civic advocates and Brooklyn residents, who addressed the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York before it voted, said the project was so dense that it would destroy Brooklyn's neighborhoods. Warning...
By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of Hong Kong businessmen being sued by their partner Donald Trump said on Friday the U.S. developer's accusations that they undersold prime Manhattan real estate are tactics to wring more money from them. "The allegations are malicious and untrue and were deliberately intended by Trump to divert attention from the fact that there is no factual basis for his lawsuit other than his desire to extract additional money from the other investors to which...
