The week in industry hires and promotions: April 27-May 1
Who got hired or promoted this week? Here’s our weekly rundown, in chronological order. Monday, April 27 Lawrence Yuan Former LinkedIn and Yahoo! engineer Lawrence Yuanwas named senior director of engineering for Auction.com. “User experience has always been a top...
Investors, developers looking to Northern Manhattan
Emerging markets like Northern Manhattan are offering real estate investors “huge potential for growth,” though such growth is dependent on continued investments in transportation and infrastructure, market players said at a Midtown panel discussion Thursday....
HAP to launch IPO on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
HAP Investment Developers plans to launch an initial public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange later this year, the latest in a line of New York City developers going to Israel for capital. HAP is looking to raise $30 million, or roughly 120 million shekels, in...
HAP Investments Opens Eight Unit Apartment Building in East Harlem
NEW YORK CITY — HAP Investments LLC has opened HAP 1, a residential building located at 419 East 117th St. in East Harlem. The six-story property features eight apartments, including a duplex penthouse and full-floor garden apartment. The original building was...
YIMBY Today: Details For Five-Story Building Coming To 89 South Street In Seaport District, More
89 South Street [Curbed]: At a recent Special Landmarks Committee meeting, SHoP revealed a five-story mixed-use affordable housing and retail building — to be clad in “real brick” — at the vacant lot of 89 South Street, in South Street Seaport. The proposal, along...
Day in the Life of: Eran Polack
Eran Polack (credit: Dominique Pettway) Eran Polack is CEO and co-founder of HAP Investment Developers, best known for its collaborations with architect/designer Karim Rashid in northern Manhattan. Polack, 41, launched HAP in the 1990s with investments in Kiev,...
The most attention-grabbing renderings from 2014
A stark-white building with magenta-rimmed balconies will take shape on a century-old block in East Harlem. In Brooklyn, a hotel appearing like something out of “Star Trek” will rise 20 stories above the neighborhood of Williamsburg. These are just a few projects in...
Leasing Is Healthy All Around Town
LEASING NEW YORK CITY—Jack Resnick & Sons has attracted another media tenant to 315 Hudson St. Intent Media, an online advertising company, has signed a four-year, 34,942-square-foot lease at the nine-story, 481,184 square-foot building. The firm is currently...
New Look: HAP Tower, 500 Summit Avenue, Journal Square
Update: Per HAP, both versions depict “different design studies for the site, and are simply conceptual at this time. They may not reflect the final approved design which is not expected for several years.” Back in August, YIMBY featured a first look at HAP’s plans...
NEW DEVELOPMENT: Paris-inspired Greenwich Village homes begin leasing, HAP announces newest project
●Edward J. Minskoff Equities Village gets its own French quarter Edward J. Minskoff Equities has introduced the first luxury homes at its Paris-inspired conversion at 37 East 12th Street. Douglas Elliman’s Madeline Hult Elghanayan, Dennis Mangone and Kirk Rundhaug...