CategoryDevelopment/Remodeling

1 Seaport: When A Developer “Leans” Into Not Paying Their Vendors

Fortis Ghosted My Firm To Avoid Paying For Services Already Rendered Like Owning A Restaurant, Condo Development Is An Unusually Risky Business Avoid Extending Financial Credit To Someone Not On The Hook Personally Well before the Manhattan luxury condo tower 1 Seaport (aka 161 Maiden Lane) topped out (that was in 2018), its superstar sales team of Fredrik Eklund/John Gomes asked me to give a...

You Can Get Anything You Want At Alice’s Restaurant, Starbucks, and Whole Foods Because It Makes Housing Grow

Remembering The Alice Of Alice's Restaurant Fame Premium Grocery Brands Like Whole Foods, Drive Apartment Rents Higher The "Third Place" In A Neighborhood Such As Starbucks Fosters Entrepreneurialism The woman who owned the restaurant made famous by Brooklyn's Arlo Guthrie in his 1967 song Alice's Restaurant Massacree just [gift link>] passed away. It's a tradition that this fun song always gets...

Condo Developers Are Told “No” For A Living

The Alexander Twins Scandal Is Changing The Marketing/Branding Calculus Developers Shvo and Stern Show Opposite Strategies In Response To The Scandal With The High Rate Environment, Branding Risks Become Front & Center Being Michael Shvo and Michael Stern got a lot tougher this week. These wellknown luxury residential condo developers have been grappling with weakening market conditions in...