20110718-NEWS--0001-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 7/15/2011 8:25 PM Page 1 INSIDE REPORT TOP STORIES REAL ESTATE Picture this: Staten Hospitals Shift Spending Island is becoming Top Office Leases and Property Sales an artist magnet ® NEIGHBORHOODS, PAGE 12 PAGE 17-22 Barclays Center VOL. XXVII, NO. 29 WWW.CRAINSNEWYORK.COM JULY 18-24, 2011 PRICE: $3.00 makes play for profits PAGE 2 These new guests will create a buzz at the InterContinental PAGE 4 One way Walmart could enter NYC: Buy Rite Aid chain IN THE MARKETS, PAGE 4 WEALTH OF GREEN: Battery Park City is Are Jann Wenner’s flanked by riverfront mags for sale? parks full of playing kids, strollers and picnicking NEW YORK, NEW YORK, P. 6 families. THE NEW BUSINESS LIVES GOTHAM GIGS Salvaging hardwoods NEW DOWNTOWN from the wreckage P. 31 buck ennis ● ANNE FISHER Tech challenged? Help types who made up their social circle, the family is is on the way P. 31 Vibrant, sustainable, moving back to the neighborhood. Now a lively stretch filled with eclectic restaurants, Stone Street is Murdoch ● MOVERS & SHAKERS and family-friendly, transformed but no less appealing. Newmark’s Jeffrey Gural “I was blown away,”said Mr.Pasquarelli.“It defines is off to the races P. 32 lower Manhattan is the change downtown.” empire ● GAEL GREENE eats well From the eateries on Stone Street to the luxury res- at Grandma’s house P. 34 now an urban model idential buildings to the hotels to the towers rising at the World Trade Center site, signs of lower Manhat- rocked tan’s blossoming are unmistakable. For all the Sturm / BY THERESA AGOVINO und Drang that accompanied the reconstruction, the Observers say crisis INDEX 9 11 rebound is remarkable for its speed and for what it is TEN Stone Street was a desolate cob- on the brink of creating: a modern, dynamic urban will move the family THE INSIDER _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _8 YEARS blestone drag when Richard center. With its dense concentration of out of the C-suite OPINION _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _11 LATER Pasquarelli jogged there be- smart, skilled people in an environmental- GREG DAVID _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _12 fore he and his family fled to ly progressive live-work-play neighbor- BY MATTHEW FLAMM SMALL BUSINESS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _14 Hoboken, N.J., to escape the lingering effects of hood, downtown offers a version of what a the Sept. 11 attacks. 21st-century global metropolis should be. CLASSIFIEDS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _24 “It looked like it was going to collapse, but it “Downtown is a City Planning 101 If the sky isn’t falling on Rupert FOR THE RECORD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _28 reminded me of what it must have been like when success story,” says Vishaan Murdoch, the ground underneath EXECUTIVE MOVES _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _31 Manhattan was New Amsterdam,” said Mr. Chakrabarti, director of the him is certainly crumbling. THE WEEK AHEAD _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _34 Pasquarelli, 42, a married father of two who left his real estate development Last week, which had to be one WEEK ON THE WEB _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _35 home on Nassau Street in 2003. program at Columbia of the worst in News Corp.’s histo- Missing the city’s energy and the creative See DOWNTOWN on Page 29 ry, Murdoch loyalists Les Hinton and Rebekah Brooks resigned in the wake of a phone-hacking and police bribery scandal at London Q&A LARRY SILVERSTEIN tabloid News of the World. The developer on surviving governors, Mr. Hinton, who was CEO of ELECTRONIC EDITION Dow Jones & Co. and publisher of bureaucracy and high drama to get towers The Wall Street Journal, had been chairman of British subsidiary NEWSPAPER rebuilt at the WTC site PAGE 28 See MURDOCH on Page 30 20110718-NEWS--0002-NAT-CCI-CN_-- 7/15/2011 8:26 PM Page 1 NET WORTH: Regardess of the IN BRIEF controversy, many say the city needs another large venue. SOHO CHINA, THE LARGEST REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER IN BEIJING, HAS AGREED TO invest between $500 million and $700 million with Vornado Realty Trust to jump-start the construction of a long-planned office tower over the Port Authority Bus Terminal, sources close to the deal said. Negotiations over building the 1.3 million-square foot tower are at a critical juncture because a deal that gives a partnership between Vornado and Lawrence Ruben Co. the rights to build over the bus terminal expires next month. Negotiations are continuing between the partners and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, the site’s owner. GOV. ANDREW CUOMO SIGNED LEGISLATION LAST FRIDAY THAT ALLOWS THE UNITED Nations to construct another building on what is now a park on First Avenue and East 42nd Street.The transaction is part of a complex plan to fill a 21-block gap in the East Side waterfront promenade that runs between East 38th and East 60th streets.The money received from the sale of the parkland, combined with funds the city would garner from selling two office buildings, would be used to extend the promenade.The legislation was necessary buck ennis because it takes state approval to eliminate a park.The U.N. is expected to decide in the fall whether to move forward with the plan. A STATE APPELLATE COURT LAST WEEK CAME Barclays Center takes DOWN HEAVILY AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL Brooklyn-based architect Robert Scarano Jr., upholding an earlier decision that bars him from filing documents with the city’s Department of shape at Atlantic Yards Buildings. Earlier this year, he told The New York Times that if the decision was upheld, he “could be put out of business.” He said his firm, Yormark said he aims to have more than of five or six years ago,” he said. Scarano Architect, has been halved to roughly Due to open in ’12, 220 events in total. But developers of the 22-acre Atlantic 20 employees, and clients were steered away A major highlight will be the site’s first Yards have yet to convince opponents that from doing business with him. n centerpiece of basketball game, a college matchup of the project is a good deal for the public.Just project is booking Kentucky versus Maryland, according to last week, a state Supreme Court judge sources. Also scheduled are boxing and sided with community groups and ruled BY THE NUMBERS events, selling tickets tennis events, as well as 48 Feld Entertain- against Forest City Ratner and the Empire ment productions, including the Ringling State Development Corp. The judge or- Weekly shift of the city’s economy Bros. circus and Disney on Ice. dered a halt to the second phase of Atlantic BY MATTHEW FLAMM Additionally, sales of the 4,400 premi- Yards until the agency conducts a new en- POLITICIANS BEHAVING BADLY further raised the specter of default not only by Greece and um season tickets, which top out at $1,500 vironmental review. other euro members but also by the U.S. That’s Rising at the intersection of Flatbush and a game, have “exceeded” expectations, Mr. bad news for the economy. Atlantic avenues,the new home of the New Yormark said, though he declined to give Timing questioned Jersey Nets has survived lawsuits,neighbor- an exact figure. Foes say the economic benefits depend hood protests and a severe recession. The He insists that the borough is showing on unrealistic timetables for completing 10K+ $3.76 1 in 3 latest insult is called The Battle for Brooklyn, its support. the 17-building project—which includes BOOKINGS made PRICE of a gallon PORTION of pay a documentary critical of the project that “Both in tickets sales and dollars, office and retail space for which there is for first-day tickets of gas in NYC on phones that opened recently to favorable reviews.