Magic Johnson’s real estate development firm, Canyon Johnson Urban Funds, is being criticized for hiring Leviathan Construction Management, a company with a history of safety violations. Councilman Steve Levin slammed the former basketball legend’s company for tapping Leviathan to turn a former candy factory at 20 Henry Street into an upscale condominium with 39 units. “They have not had a good history in terms of safety on their work sites,” Levin told the Daily News. The Department of Buildings gave Leviathan a partial work order Dec. 30
for unsafe scaffolding at the site, for which the company faces $35,000
in fines. [more]

Most
of the 190 units at One Hanson Place have sold, but the remaining units
are now available for rent. On Stribling Marketing Associates’ Web site, 19 units are
listed as rentals, with monthly rents ranging from $3,400 to $4,900.
Three other units have been listed for-rent-by-owner since the
fall. One Hanson Place was converted into a residential building in 2006 by
Dermot Company and the Canyon-Johnson Urban Funds. [more]