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Walking Tour through West Village
L to R: Mark Williams CEO RWC, successful bidder of Didgeridoo John Stricker, Auctioneer Peter Matthews.
Yankee Stadium
Statue of Liberty and cruise down the Hudson
The Chrysler building
Foyer of the iconic Chrysler building
Foyer of the iconic Chrysler building
The foyer of the Plaza Hotel refurbishment where we visited a $14.5M apartment
An inspection of the West Village terrace houses
The Soho Mews foyer
Brian Hodges and Merryn Hodges
The Glasshouse space of the cocktail function
The winning bidder was Evelyn Royale, together with Peter, Mark, Gerard Seeber (Senior Trade Commissioner) and John Olsen (Consul General). Evelyn kindly put the didgeridoo back up for a second round and the second highest bidder John Stricker (Chairman of Sentinel Funds Growth). Evelyn Royale in the centre with the didgeridoo, winning bidder who donated her winning bid proceeds to charity. The side of her left is John Olsen and Peter Matthews, and on her right is Gerard Seeber (Senior Trade Commissioner for New York) and Mark Williams.
Handing out thankyou’s to people who assisted greatly with the tour
Industry cocktail function of over 120 guests from the NY property and finance industry attended a function in the Arts space and meatpackers district
Architects offices near World Trade Centre
From the 52nd Floor looking on the 16 acres of the World Trade Centre Development site. When completed the site will host more A grade space than all of Atlantic City and all of Brisbane CBD.
View from the 52nd Floor of the World Trade Centre 7 looking at the Woolworths Building
Don Preate (Senior Director, Office Leasing, Cushman & Wakefield NY) & Mark Williams
Jon Kaplan (Head of Capital Transactions, Cushman & Wakefield NY [Boomerang Thrower]) & Don Preate. Jon has negotiated in excess of 20 transactions in New York of $1/2B or more each, including the Plaza Hotel and the Met Life Building for $1.3B.
Opening presentations from various parties
Don Ha (RWC Manukau) with Mike and Bettina King (RW Prestige Palm Beach)
Josh Hall (RWC Broadbeach), Alyson Williams, Moto Waters, Jamie Nelson (GPT) & Merryn Hodges
Portia Creevey, eyeing the opening cocktails
Tony & Linda Young (BDO Kendalls), Angela & Roy Havig
Merryn Hodges (RWC Toowoomba), Moto Waters (RWC Gold Coast) & Alyson Williams (RWC Brisbane)
Peter Matthews (RW Neutral Bay Mosman & Crows Nest) talks about the Sydney residential market
John Olsen (Australian Consul General to New York) opens the Australian Property Forum in “The Monash Room”, Australian Consulate General Offices.
Sun sets on the Chrysler Building
Columbus Circle from Time Warner Building
Gerard Seeber (Senior Trade Commissioner) at the Australian Property Forum, attended by over 60 New Yorkers interested to hear from 5 RW Principals on the Australian property market
Chrysler Building Foyer
Inside a gutted townhouse in West Village where two young developers have purchased the building and then bought out the tenant control occupants to create vacant possession. Having done so they then gutted the particular townhouse ready for refit. They purchased for $6 million and sold for $9 million to an unidentified A-list actor who is about to undertake a $4 million fit-out of this four storey townhouse.
Out the front of Time Warner Building, inspection of the whole foods Ninetie on the Bust, going through whole foods having just eaten cupcakes from Magnolia’s, famous in Sex in the City
Foyer of the World Trade Centre 7 Building owned by Silvesteen Properties and Dara McQuillan welcomes the group to the main foyer
Inspections through West Village on the corner opposite Magnolia’s Cupcakes
Soho Mews excursion 2d
The inspection of the Soho Mews, marketed by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing
The inspection of the Soho Mews, marketed by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing
Charity auction of a didgeridoo. This was expertly auctioned off by Peter Matthews (RW Neutral Bay Mosman & Crows Nest)
World Trade Centre model
The Architects Level 10 of the World Trade Centre 7 houses the development offices for Silverteen Properties as well as the design centre which is home for the 3 architects awarded with the task of the project design
Level 52 view. John Price & Doug O’Mara (RWC Canberra)
Level 52 view
Mark Creevey (RW Special Projects Qld) presents on development opportunities in Queensland
Soho Mews excursion
Model within the architects’ offices
The World Trade Centre 7 team walk through the offices of the architects whilst meetings are taking place about the future development of the site. What an experience
Artists’ impressions
Mark Williams talking about an overview of Ray White to the group