400 West 12th Street and Showtime’s Matthew Blank (Building photo source: PropertyShark)

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]

Ever wish you could live the lifestyle of your favorite television characters? If you’re a fan of Showtime you can — for a few hours. Metropolitan Home and Showtime Networks teamed up to create a multi-media show house (see images taken by The Real Deal’s Derek Zahedi above), transforming two penthouses at the Tribeca Summit condominiums at 415 Greenwich Street between Laight and Hubert streets into living homages to some of the premium cable channel’s most popular shows: “Californication,” “Dexter,” “Nurse Jackie,” “The Tudors,” “United State of Tara”and “Weeds.” The showcase aims to create buzz for the building, the shows and the nearly 20 designers who transformed the 14,000 square feet. The 10-story building has 66 units, with nine active listings, is being marketed by Prudential Douglas Elliman, and tours of the Showtime-themed penthouse run from Sept. 12 until Oct. 18. The Real Deal was on hand yesterday for a sneak peak at the rooms. TRD [more]

The cable channel Showtime Networks is eyeing a move from its current
home in a Theater District skyscraper to a rehabilitated century-year-old building at 200 Fifth Avenue at Madison Square Park, several
sources said. Showtime, a division of the CBS Corporation, currently leases 172,600
square feet of space at the 2.4 million-square-foot 1633 Broadway at
51st Street; the lease is set to expire in 2010, according to data from
CoStar. Real estate investment company L&L Holding bought 200 Fifth Avenue,
at the corner of 23rd Street, in 2007 for $480 million and is pouring
another $120 million into the 800,000-square-foot building, where
advertising firm Grey Group is taking 370,000 square feet. [more]