Article: Deadlock broken on LVMH tower in N.Y. (construction of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton's New York, NY, building held up by Robert Siegel suit).

The tower may yet triumph.

A legal dispute, which halted construction on the future LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton tower on East 57th Street, moved one small step closer to a resolution on Wednesday when a justice's order broke the deadlock between the two warring partners in the project -- at least for now.

New York State Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Ramos ordered Robert Siegel, the young real estate broker who owned the land at 17-21 East 57 Street, to sign a $19 million loan provided by LVMH to get the project started again.

Construction on what's supposed to be the spectacular U.S. headquarters of LVMH has been stalled since February when ...

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