Town CEO Andrew Heiberger

Town Residential will open their seventh and eighth Manhattan offices in Soho and Gramercy Park early next year, the brokerage announced today. Town has  remained tight lipped regarding the exact addresses of their new offices.

Town has revealed that their new Soho location will fully occupy a two-story landmark building on a corner in West Soho. Sales and leasing co-directors Ari LeFauve and Lyon Porter will manage the 35-representative location, after the office’s opening in January. [more]

Tony Goldman (photo courtesy Ben Ritter)

The sudden death of developer Tony Goldman prompted colleagues and admirers to remember the man who helped build Miami’s South Beach and New York’s Soho neighborhoods. The non-profit Project for Public Spaces, which counted Goldman as a board member, recalled his transformative touch, buying up multiple buildings in Manhattan, Miami or Philadelphia and adding retail, restaurants and hotels to remake the area…. [more]

Tony Goldman in Wynwood

From the South Florida site: Developer Tony Goldman, who helped engineer the renaissances of Miami’s South Beach and Soho, died yesterday at the age of 68 of heart failure, the Miami Herald reported.

A native of New York City, Goldman got his start in real estate buying brownstones on the Upper West Side, but his most famous play was purchasing 18 properties in Soho in the early 1980s. He parlayed the proceeds from those properties into profitable investments in Miami Beach.  [more]

From left: DDG CEO Joe McMillan and 325 West Broadway

DDG Partners is in contract to buy the four-building Soho Tootsie Roll factory complex from Lehman Brothers Holdings. Crain’s reported the DDG paid as much as $39 million for the properties and is likely to instigate a condominium conversion. The block-through properties contain 56,000 square feet at 325 West Broadway, on the corner of Grand Street, and have Wooster Street frontage. [more]

From left: Sharif El-Gamal and 31 West 27th Street (credit:PropertyShark)

The San Francisco-based Walnut Hill Group has purchased Sharif El-Gamal’s 12-story Chelsea office building at 31 West 27th Street.

It was the second purchase by Walnut Hill in Manhattan. In February 2011, the company acquired the Holiday Inn Express hotel building at 15 West 45th Street in Times Square, in a joint venture with minority partner Magna Hospitality Group. [more]

150 Prince Street

A Greek retail brand is descending upon Prince Street in Soho, but unlike its upscale soon-to-be neighbors, its hallmark is yogurt and its accessories are fruit flavors. The Wall Street Journal reported that Chobani has signed a lease to pay $375,000 per year for a 525-square-foot space at 150 Prince Street, where it plans a fast-food style yogurt bar with Mediterranean-inspired mix-ins. Christopher Owles of Sinvin Realty represented the landlord, and LLC, in the deal.

The store is just the latest example of the Greek yogurt industry’s growing foothold in New York. [more]

Backed by real estate interests, the Soho/Noho Action Committee has secured $30,000 in funding, as part of its campaign to overturn a city zoning resolution that dates back to the 1970s, the Wall Street Journal reported. The law requires that all Soho and Noho industrial space-converted lofts be home to at least one city-certified artist or successor as resident, and that retail space use must be wholesale, without a special permit. [more]

Piperlime's pop-up at 93 Mercer Street

Online clothing purveyor Piperlime is making another foray into brick-and-mortar retailing, but this time it’s permanent, according to a statement from the company today. The new 4,000-square-foot store, the company’s first retail outlet, will open this fall at 121 Wooster Street at Prince Street, in Soho, the statement said. [more]

The Crosby Street mechanics garage, which sits vacant (credit: Google Street View)

The owners of the BP gas station at the corner of Crosby and East Houston streets in Soho are looking for an upscale retail tenant to fill the space of their vacant garage located immediately behind the station, DNAinfo reported. LargaVista Companies, a real estate firm that specializes in developing underutilized or environmentallyimpacted properties, owns the 2,200-square-foot garage that was operational as a mechanics garage until February. [more]

The real estate agent-led Soho/Noho Action Committee is on a hunt to delete language from a city zoning resolution that dates back to the 1970s, DNAinfo reported. In its effort to ditch the zoning law, which requires that both Soho and Noho converted lofts house at least one city-certified artist as a resident, the group wants to survey the area to see if an artist actually lives in every residence on file at the Department of Cultural Affairs. [more]