The Marina Bay Sands hotel is located in Singapore and it currently holds the title of the most expensive hotel built till this day, as its investment by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation reaches $5 billion. Comprised of 2,560-rooms and three 55-story towers, one of its most beautifully executed design features of this hotel is its 150 meter infinity pool which lines the top of the three towers. Unbelievable!
Last night in NYC, Target staged an innovative fashion event called The Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular at the Standard Hotel. Each of the 155 rooms of the hotel had LED lights installed, and over 60 dancers performed in the windows in time to broadcasted music. The creative team that brought this performance together is Mother New York, the same team that brought us the Target Harlem package.
CORE has taken on the challenge of selling the converted condos at Chelsea’s 650 6th avenue. Now known as The Cammeyer- a tribute to a shoe store that was once in the Ladies’ Mile building, the development has been getting lots of postitive press about sales momentum since making the marketing switch from white-box galleries to historic lofts. CORE has brought one of the buildings crown jewels back to the market. John Gomes and Frederik Eklund are our agents for this listing.
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Shows like CORE’s own Selling New York and Million Dollar Listing have become so popular that reality TV directors are now in search of star broker talent for yet another popular reality show on nationally broadcast television. Casting is currently underway for Season 8 of TLC’s What Not to Wear and the producers are seeking a female New York Real Estate agent.
HGTV is teaming up with the W Downtown hotel to promote and give away a luxurious loft. The lucky winner of the HGTV Urban Oasis Giveaway will get a $1.5 million package that includes the fully furnished 900 square foot apartment in the W and a brand-new Acura Sports Coupe. The last episode of HGTV Selling New York featuring CORE Real Estate dealt with selling some of our highest priced properties while racing the clock. Something tells us finding someone who wants this “Urban Oasis” wont be as hard.
For those New Yorkers who never received a coveted invitation last summer to dive into Dumpsters converted into pools in Brooklyn, there is a much easier alternative this year: Park Avenue. Mayor Bloomberg will open three pools on Park Ave. Here is a link to the article from the NY Times.
A new building at 257 Bowery is making the elevator its prime asset. More than just an elevator it is a 12’ by 20’ feet moving room with a gallery space and surrounded by milled glass. The lift will also boast a red glow that will be sure to light up a late night stroll down the Bowery
Sundays are no longer lazy thanks to the Sunday Night Film Club at the Crosby Street Hotel. The dinner and movie concept is upgraded with the Crosby’s plush interors and gourmet food/drink offerings from the Crosby Bar. All movies are screened in the hotels state of the art cinema.
Continuing a theme from my previous appearance on Selling New York, in the April 22nd episode I had a chance to focus on identifying and addressing the inherent “energy” of the apartment that I was tasked to sell. An apartment, house or any kind of home acquires its energy not only from its own history, but from the histories—the experiences, goals, aspirations, obstacles and anxieties—of the people who live in it, as well as of their guests, their neighbors and, dare I say, their brokers. I was educated in the existence and power of this type of energy by my friend and colleague Reginald Arthur, who for years has studied the energies of individuals, their homes and their environments. Almost as soon as I took over the listing of an apartment at 50 Gramercy Park North, I brought Reggie in to help promote the residence’s positive energies. Similar to the penthouse (at 350 West 23rd Street) featured in my previous episode, the one at 50 Gramercy is a relatively new construction and its current occupants have lived there for less than three years. Reggie and I have come to understand that new developments often attract and absorb negative forces that accompany the building process: the stresses of financing, the convulsions of construction, the uncertainties of the marketplace in which the apartments are sold. Furthermore, the 50 Gramercy project incorporates an old New York hotel that has hosted many unusual guests over the years, each of whom contributes his or her own energy to the bones of the building. All of these factors, if sufficiently negative, can create a pall that, on a certain level, deters buyers. Reggie identified this immediately and took measures to reverse its effects. He tries to help homes release negative energies from dark periods in their histories by assisting their owners and brokers in doing the same. In other words, if the people who live and pass through an apartment are able to expel their negative energies, so too will those energies be expelled from the apartment itself, resulting in a space that is brighter and more attractive to prospective buyers. Whether or not they believe in the veracity of Reggie’s methods, my sellers (and I) are always filled with confidence by his presence and charisma. And, after all, isn’t confidence just another form of positive energy?
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