{"id":254377,"date":"2026-06-03T22:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254377\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T22:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T22:23:23","slug":"midtown-east-office-tower-headed-for-foreclosure-auction-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254377\/","title":{"rendered":"Midtown East Office Tower Headed for Foreclosure Auction\u00a0 \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/08\/nyc-office-buildings-transit-hubs-commuting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">momentum<\/a> of office leasing near Grand Central Terminal was not enough to save\u00a0one Midtown East office tower from foreclosure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/clarion-partners\/\" title=\"Clarion Partners\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clarion Partners<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/alchemy-properties\/\" title=\"Alchemy Properties\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alchemy Properties<\/a>, owners of \u00a0209-211 East 43rd Street, defaulted on a $65 million loan originated in 2015 by <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/signature-bank\/\" title=\"Signature Bank\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Signature Bank<\/a>, Crain\u2019s New York Business <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crainsnewyork.com\/real-estate\/commercial\/cny-grand-central-building-foreclosure-auction-20260601\/\">reported<\/a> Monday. The 24-story building will now be sold at a foreclosure auction June 16 at the New York County Courthouse, according to Crain\u2019s, which cited a legal notice.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/06\/derby-copeland-capital-54-million-refi-660-lexington-avenue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derby Copeland Capital Provides $54 Million Refi for Lexington Avenue Condo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1928-built building has encountered vacancy issues on its upper floors\u00a0 in recent years, and the owners agreed to a loan modification with Signature in 2022, according to Crain\u2019s. Signature Bank was <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2023\/03\/signature-bank-shuttered-regulators\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shuttered<\/a> in early 2023 as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2023\/05\/no-end-in-sight-why-regional-banking-crisis-continue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wider regional banking crisis<\/a> and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2023\/12\/blackstone-led-jv-awarded-20-stake-in-signatures-17b-cre-portfolio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold<\/a> the majority of its office-backed loans to a Blackstone-led joint venture later that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 209-211 East 43rd Street property inked leases in spring 2022 from Time Out Group, the Special Olympics and the International Committee of the Red Cross in spring 2022, Commercial Observer previously <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2022\/05\/time-out-special-olympics-and-red-cross-seal-deals-in-midtown-east\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clarion and Alchemy did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Coen can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2026\/06\/midtown-manhattan-grand-central-office-tower-foreclosure-auction\/mailto:acoen@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acoen@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The recent momentum of office leasing near Grand Central Terminal was not enough to save\u00a0one Midtown East office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99133,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-254377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-211-east-43rd-street","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}