Blackstone sells London NYC to Abu Dhabi fund for $382M

The ADIA also bought the debt and the ground least at the 563-key Midtown hotel

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The London NYC Hotel at 151 West 54th Street in Midtown (inset: The ADIA's Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Blackstone's Jonathan Gray)

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, has added to its portfolio of Manhattan hotels.




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Blackstone Group

The fund paid $382 million, or $678,000 per room, to the Blackstone Group for the leasehold for the 563-key London NYC Hotel at 151 West 54th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues in Midtown.

Of that total, $194 million paid for the property itself, with the remaining $154 million made on the building’s debt. As per the lease agreement, the ADIA will pay $157 million to the Sol Goldman estate through 2136.

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Roy March, Larry Wolfe and Mark Schoenholtz of Eastdil Secured represented Blackstone in the deal.

Blackstone bought the lease for the 575,000-square-foot hotel in 2004 from Lehman Brothers, paying $193 million. It then spent about $100 million refurbishing the structure.

The ADIA also owns the Hyatt Times Square and the Marriott Edition near Madison Square Park. [NYP]Ariel Stulberg