40 Mercer retail condo goes for $42M

The retail space at 40 Mercer, the Jean Nouvel-designed condo developed by Hines Interests and Andre Balazs, has sold for $41.9 million to a company called GLL Real Estate Partners, city records show. The space, which has a street address of 465 Broadway, contains 9,400 square feet of space at the ground level. When it hit the market in June 2008, it was leased to high-end retailers Bose, Dermalogica and Vivienne Tam and to a Wachovia Bank. Studley’s Woody Heller reportedly had the listing, and at the time, he predicted that the retail condo would go for roughly $50 million. He declined to comment to the Observer yesterday. [NYO]