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2010年12月9日 星期四

Hangar "Spuce Goose" for Facelift by Ratkovich

LOS ANGELES - At the height of the frenzy of real property at the beginning of 2007, the real estate company based in New York Tishman Speyer paid 200 million for land build a Park Office in Silicon Valley-style at Playa Vista, a new community amounting on West Side city.

Sometimes occurs in real estate transactions, 64-acre site came with something Tishman Speyer didn't really: the enormous hangar in the 1940s Howard Hughes built vessel flying meets 200 tons Birch wood who came to be called the Spruce goose.

Next year, Tishman Speyer, the owner of the Rockefeller Center and its financial partner, Walton Street Capital in Chicago, has decided to sell the hangar, which has been used for years as a stage in his film and television. "We claim know this company" an Executive told the Los Angeles Times when the hangar is the market.

Today, thanks to decrease the values of real estate, the hangar has a new owner, Wayne Ratkovich, one of the first developer in Los Angeles to recognize the value in the restoration of historic buildings. Mr. Ratkovich plans to redevelop the cavernous structure that 204 feet on 700, as the central element of stage sound and offices of measures tailored to the business of entertainment complex.

Mr. Ratkovich not to purchase the hangar and the other 10 Hughes war world-era buildings in Tishman Speyer, however. In 2009, Tishman Speyer has defaulted on the loan of $ 155 million and had to abandon most of its goods at Playa Vista, which is located about three miles north of Los Angeles international airport on land formerly owned by Mr. Hughes. New York-based company, who also lost 110-building Stuyvesant town and Peter Cooper Village complex of apartments on the East Side of Manhattan by locking earlier this year, kept four buildings Playa Vista that it had already been completed.

Playa Vista property has been sold into three separate segments. Mr. Ratkovich and its donor funds, Penwood Real Estate Investment Management in Hartford, Conn., paid 32.4 million cash for 28 acres that included the old buildings. Lincoln property Company in Dallas, which has developed new offices at Playa Vista 488,000 square foot 10.5 acres for future expansion, purchased pay 14 cents for every dollar 2006 Award for the acquisition of Tishman, said David s. Binswanger, an Executive Vice-President.

Third-party purchaser was Tishman Speyer itself, which acquired for $19 acres he gave back 35 million. Society representatives refused to be interviewed, but has already said that they had no immediate plans for the site. The main buildings of the West Coast, including sublet space, vacancy rate amounted to 18.4% in the third quarter, according to the firm broker Cushman & Wakefield.

William j. Hoffman, President of Trigild San Diego receiver appointed to the Court, said that it was unusual for an owner to buy the property which it had lost in a foreclosure. Practice is even prohibited in some jurisdictions, so that the borrower did not benefit at the expense of the creditor. "My experience of more than 30 years, it is very rare," said Mr. Hoffman. "In this case, it was the best solution."

Objective development more extended battles of Los Angeles history due to its proximity to the fragile wetland of Ballona East Lincoln Boulevard, Playa Vista is finally taking shape as a master-planned community. Its 6,000 residents, including families more that had been planned, live within blocks of buildings in four floors in the middle of the parks, shops and a branch of the library. A school is under construction. A shopping centre is planned but has been blocked because of litigation, said Patricia t. Sinclair, co-Chair of master developer community, Playa Capital Company, whose partners include Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and OakTree Capital.

In April, Los Angeles City Council approved an additional of 2,800 residential units, the final phase of a project development proposed for the first (by a previous owner) in 1978. During the past three years, Tishman Speyer and Lincoln created one million square feet of low-rise aimed to attract the type of new media jumped on the West Coast during the boom years companies office space.

Point of sale is an eight-acre park recently completed with a bunch of shell and the theatre designed by the architect of Los Angeles Michael Maltzan, a sand volleyball court, a soccer field and a basketball court. Tenants include electronic society Belkin International and the Institute for technology of creation of the University of Southern California, a military contractor.

Two years ago, in what has seemed to be a major coup for Playa Vista, Fox Interactive Media signed a $ 350 million for 420,000 square feet for the horizon of the complex property Lincoln long-term lease. But the decline of social media, MySpace, Fox Interactive staff filling site and cancel the travel. Society, which is to only 50,000 square-foot at the present time, is liable to pay a rent of $44 per foot square to 10.5 years remaining on the lease, said Mr. Binswanger.

Mr. Binswanger said that he did not Fox Interactive to his empty space sublet - and therefore compete with space remaining on the horizon, but despite this, the vacancy means that the commercial zone of Playa Vista is strangely quiet. H. Carl Muhlstein, Executive Vice President of Cushman & Wakefield, said that these problems are temporary. "You cannot blame Playa Vista to the global collapse," said Mr. Muhlstein. "The fundamentals of the site are still incredible." This is why players have doubled down and invested more. ?

For Mr. Ratkovich, Hughes buildings represent the latest in a series of redevelopment projects which started there are more than thirty years with the 1928 Oviatt building, a former notions on the streets of olive and sixth in downtown Los Angeles. The success of this project taught her that "historic architecture can be very marketable," he said.


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