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111 8th Avenue Carrier Hotel is For Sale
The 2.9 million square foot carrier hotel at 111 8th Avenue in Manhattan.
111 8th Avenue, one of the most important telecom hubs in Manhattan, is up for sale. The enormous building houses major data center operations for Digital Realty Trust, Equinix, Telx and many other providers and networks, as well as 500,000 square feet of office space for Google.
The 2.9 million square foot building, which occupies the entire city block between 15th & 16th Streets from Eighth to Ninth Avenues, has been placed for sale by an ownership group including Taconic Investment Partners, the New York State Common Retirement Fund and the German investment group Jamestown. The ownership group hopes to do a 90 percent recapitalization, leaving it with a minority stake, according to the New York Post.
111 Eighth Avenue is among the world’s most wired buildings. It was originally built as the Port Authority Commerce Building in 1932, and was redeveloped for telecom use by Taconic in the late 90s. Manhattan real estate watchers speculate that due the building’s size and strategic importance, a sale could fetch as much as $2 billion. The offering is being closely watched as a barometer of the Manhattan real estate market.
“Investors, brokers and analysts are divided over whether the listing will hark back to the era of billion-dollar transactions or represent an outbreak of irrational exuberance only two years after the financial crisis snuffed out the greatest real estate boom of all time,” the New York Times writes. “Whatever happens, experts say, the sale may amount to a verdict on the vitality of the New York market, or at least the appetite for big deals.”
This aerial photo shows the scale of 111 8th Avenue, which occupies an entire city block in New York City.
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Posted September 14th, 2010Let’s buy it Rich!
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Posted September 14th, 2010[...] want to buy a datacenter? 111 8th Avenue Carrier Hotel is For Sale Well, OK, so it's not a data centre as we know it, but there's some big tenants in there! [...]
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Posted September 14th, 2010No surprises here. Financial companies are moving their data centers out of 111th 8th as the main routes change (exchanges move) and more direct paths are available – namely between Mahwah (NYSE), Carteret (NASDAQ), Secaucus (ISE, Direct Edge, CBOE2, BOX), and Weehawken (BATS) – and also to/from Chicago. So for this reason alone, demand for data center space in 111 8th will continue to decline, and I can’t see any reason for financial companies to be in there in the long run. Lastly, they have a number of telco dependant tenants paying rents way above market rates for office space. This will also change as leased line costs come down. It’s no surprise the owners are now looking to sell.
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