The Robert A.M. Stern-designed blockbuster condominium conversion Superior Ink is now virtually sold out, with only a couple of townhouses remaining on the market. But Stern-ophiles who missed out on buying a place now have the opportunity to rent a three-bedroom, three-bath unit in the 17-story project, located at 400 West 12th Street. Apartment 7B hit the market last week for $30,950 with Elliot Bogod of A & I Broadway. [more]
Between its celebrity residents, blockbuster sales and jealousy-inducing freebies, Superior Ink, the West Village condominium dubbed “the 15 Central Park West of Downtown,” has undoubtedly captured the spotlight in 2010. Which is why the latest sale at the Related Companies’ new trophy is likely to snap even the most weather-weary New Yorkers out of that end-of-the-year haze: unit 16C, an unlisted 3,234-square-foot one-bedroom with exposures to the north, east and west, has just sold for $258,705. That’s $80 per square foot. By comparison, unit 8C, which also contains 3,234 square feet, sold in July for $11.75 million, or $3,633 per square foot, property records show.
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The deed for an unlisted fourth-floor condominium at the Related Companies’ recently record-breaking Superior Ink condominium was quietly transferred earlier this month to the Related mastermind himself, CEO Stephen Ross. The price of unit 4J at 400 West 12th Street? Zero dollars, of course — and it isn’t the first time. Ross currently lives in a sprawling, 9,290-square-foot penthouse at the Time Warner Center, which he “bought” in 2006 for an equally-low $0. And in June, Curbed reported that Superior Ink apartment #6D went in a freebie transfer to Susan De Franca, president of sales at Related. Ross wasn’t immediately available for comment, and since a listing for unit 4J never surfaced, not much information is available about the new spread. But by comparison, unit 3J, which went into contract last month, was last listed for $5.125 million. Click here for more.
West Village condo Superior Ink has nabbed yet another celebrity, this time Anthony Caleb Followhill, the lead singer of popular rock band Kings of Leon, according to the New York Post. Followhill and his supermodel girlfriend Lily Aldridge are renting a two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit at 400 West 12th Street that was listed for $8,000 per month. [more]
Superior Ink and Rockets owner Leslie AlexanderCeleb-heavy condo Superior Ink at 400 West 12th Street along the Hudson River has just seen its 6,321-square-foot penthouse’s price reduced by $6 million to $33.5 million, according to Curbed. The unit, which Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander bought in October last year for $25 million, was immediately placed back on the market for $39.5 million. [more]
In a housing market that’s been brutal to luxury apartments, one residential development seems untouchable: Superior Ink. Only five units remain available in the 17-story, 68-unit building at 400 West 12th Street, developed by Related Companies, as celebrities like Hilary Swank and Marc Jacobs have flocked to pick up some of the former factory’s seven- and eight-figure homes. To ask Eric Zollinger, a senior sales associate with Related, the building’s appeal lies in its chic affect and prime locale. “You know, everyone wants to be downtown now, it’s cool and hip,” Zollinger said.
A limited liability company affiliated with Showtime Networks chairman and CEO Matthew Blank paid $11.2 million for a condominium unit at the new West Village building Superior Ink at 400 West 12th Street near the West Side Highway.
The purchasing company, identified as Superior 10C LLC, went into contract on the four-bedroom sponsor unit October 2007 and closed on the purchase Nov. 30, city property records published yesterday show.
Blank, the head of the cable media company based in Midtown, paid about $3,463 per square foot for the 3,234-square foot unit. The transfer was made without a mortgage, indicating an all-cash purchase. [more]
The penthouse unit at the new far West Village condominium development known as Superior Ink sold for $25 million, or about $4,192 per square foot. The sponsor unit sale of the 6,321-square-foot unit in the 15-story building built by the Related Companies at 400 West 12th Street closed Sept. 27, after going into contract in December 2007, city property records published today show. The buyer is identified only as 400 West LLC, and paid all cash, city property records indicate. The purchase was the second largest sale reported this week. A buyer paid $37 million for a penthouse unit in 15 Central Park West, the Observer reported. more
