Article: 1585 sale signals 'confidence.' (office building at 1585 Broadway, New York, New York)

The sealed bid auction purchase of 1585 Broadway last week for $176 million by Morgan Stanley came as the city's real estate market seems to be finding firmer ground in the quick-sand.

The sale, to be closed Sept. 30, marks a high point in a decade that has seen one property after the other returned to Lenders. Coincidentally, the city had valued the building at $176 million for real estate tax purposes.

The former Solomon Equities building has been in the hands of an eight-bank consortium, led by the Bank of Montreal, Toronto Dominion and Swiss Bank, since a bankruptcy in December, 1991, and Hines Interests Limited Partnership has been acting as adviser ...

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