Mondrian Soho to open late next month, the “chef’s kitchen” misnomer … and more

1. Property owners rushing to avoid capital gains tax increases cause sales volume uptick at year’s end [Crain’s]
2. Mondrian Soho to open late next month [Hotel Chatter]
3. Why the “chef’s kitchen” is a misnomer [NYT]
4. Westbrook’s Avi Banyasz to depart for TPG Capital [Crain’s]
5. Developers price-chop One Jackson Square penthouse by $2.8M after more than two years on the market [WSJ]
6. Minority-heavy Park Slope high school resists city plan to bring in elite school to share the space [Brooklyn Paper]
7. New York cupcakery Crumbs to merge, go public in $66M deal [Crain’s]
8. Lennar posts better-than-expected earnings results for fourth quarter [Bloomberg]

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