Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander has pulled off a successful flip at Robert A.M. Stern’s Superior Ink with the $31.5 million sale of his unfinished penthouse, and set a new record price for a downtown Manhattan condominium to boot. The Wall Street Journal reports that a foreign, non-celebrity buyer closed yesterday on the 6,300-square-foot full-floor spread after winning a bidding war, and plans to use the apartment as a pied-à-terre. [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]
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]
