Linden78 and Chris Westley of the eponymous marketing firm

New York real estate sales and marketing representative Chris Westley of CW Management, whose most recent project was attempting to turn around sales at condominium Linden78 at 230 West 78th Street, is setting up shop in Hollywood. Linden78,  Urban Residential’s development, whose exclusive sales and marketing agent is the Marketing Directors, has weathered broken contracts and construction delays and saw around 90 percent of its buyers pull out when the recession hit, the New York Daily News reported. Westley, who is considered by some to be a guru of selling units in troubled buildings, said he plans to use his same repackaging skills on the other coast. “The idea is to generate sales of underperforming properties whose initial efforts didn’t deliver desired results,” Westley said. “My role is to… tweak the asset identity and manage the sales.

The city Department of Buildings announced it will share information
about tower cranes with Chicago and Philadelphia in an effort to track
equipment failures, recalls, accidents and industry trends. Over the
past year, 12 tower cranes have come to New York City from other
places. The new system will track where the cranes work, who owns them
and will include any information on accidents involving the machines.
This is the latest in a series of measures instituted after two tower
crane accidents in Manhattan resulted in nine people dead last year.
There is currently no national database to track tower cranes and their
parts, and several other places, including California, Connecticut and
Dallas, have expressed interest in the new program. [more]