{"id":72675,"date":"2025-12-16T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:54:07","slug":"fidi-office-building-sells-for-less-than-half-its-2013-value-commercial-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72675\/","title":{"rendered":"FiDi Office Building Sells for Less Than Half Its 2013 Value \u2013 Commercial Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/bushburg-properties\/\" title=\"Bushburg Properties\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bushburg Properties<\/a> has acquired the 21-story office building at 100 William Street in Manhattan\u2019s Financial District for $70 million, which is $96.5 million less than the building sold for in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Will Silverman, Gary Phillips, and Jeff Organisciak of <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/eastdil-secured\/\" title=\"Eastdil Secured\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastdil Secured<\/a> brokered the sale.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/12\/affinius-capital-81m-construction-loan-arizona-state-student-housing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Affinius Capital Provides $81M Construction Loan for Arizona State Student Housing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bushburg bought the 422,000-square-foot office building, which is currently less than 50 percent occupied, from Canadian insurance firm <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/manulife\/\" title=\"Manulife\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manulife<\/a>, which had acquired the building through its U.S. division <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/john-hancock\/\" title=\"John Hancock\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Hancock<\/a> from Japanese developer <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/mitsui-fudosan-america\/\" title=\"Mitsui Fudosan America\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitsui Fudosan America<\/a> in December 2013 for $166.5 million, according to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/john-hancock-acquires-three-office-properties-in-key-us-markets-513479111.html\">an announcement at the time<\/a> from Manulife. Mitsui had bought the building from <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/lighthouse-real-estate-ventures\/\" title=\"Lighthouse Real Estate Ventures\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lighthouse Real Estate Ventures<\/a> for $180 million in 2007, according to public records.<\/p>\n<p>100 William Street sits between Platt and John streets in Lower Manhattan. Built in 1972 with designs by architectural firm Emery Roth &amp; Sons, the office building was \u201csubstantially renovated\u201d in 2012, according to Manulife\u2019s announcement. The building was 95 percent occupied at the time of the sale the following year.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Deal was first to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/new-york\/2025\/12\/15\/bushburg-properties-buys-100-william-street-from-manulife\/\">note the current sale<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bushburg is currently converting the nearby 1.2 million-square-foot, 40-story 80 Pine Street, which it bought from <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/rudin\/\" title=\"Rudin\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rudin<\/a> in 2024 for $160 million, into 713 apartments. Bushburg made the purchase with the help of $100 million in financing from Carlo Bellini\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/company\/99c\/\" title=\"99c\" class=\"company-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">99c<\/a>, as Commercial Observer <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2024\/09\/bushburg-acquisiton-loan-80-pine-street-rudin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported at the time<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tenants at 100 William Street include a Pearson Professional Center and law firm Gorayeb &amp; Associates. The building\u2019s retail space hosts an outlet of American Beauty Salons, an Orangetheory Fitness, and a Starbucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bushburg did not immediately respond to requests for comment, Manulife could not be reached for comment, and Eastdil Secured declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Getlen can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/commercialobserver.com\/2025\/12\/fidi-office-building-sells-less-than-half-2013-value\/mailto:lgetlen@commercialobserver.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lgetlen@commercialobserver.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bushburg Properties has acquired the 21-story office building at 100 William Street in Manhattan\u2019s Financial District for $70&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36932,36933,36934,36935,3624,36936,1603,4460,36937,9,11,10,36938,36939,14094,36940],"class_list":{"0":"post-72675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-100-william-street","9":"tag-80-pine-street","10":"tag-american-beauty-salons","11":"tag-carlo-bellini","12":"tag-channel","13":"tag-emery-roth-sons","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-gary-phillips","16":"tag-gorayeb-associates","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-orangetheory-fitness","21":"tag-pearson-professional-center","22":"tag-starbucks","23":"tag-will-silverman-acquisition"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72675","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=72675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}