SL Green CEO Marc Holliday and Hines Interest founder Gerald Hines

SL Green Realty has brought in Hines Interest to help the firm in a rare ground-up construction attempt across the street from Grand Central Terminal, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move marks the first step forward for the firm’s planned 1.2 million-square-foot building along Madison Avenue between 42nd and 43rd streets, since it acquired its last needed lot, at 51 East 42nd Street, in December. [more]