German Investor Takes Down Manhattan Tower for $333M

Atlanta-based Columbia Property Trust, Inc. divested 222 East 41st Street in Midtown Manhattan to Commerz Real, real assets investment manager of German Commerzbank, for a gross sales price of $332.5 million. The 390,000-square-foot Midtown East tower had been essentially fully occupied by one tenant since 2007, in a lease that was set to expire in 2016.

Columbia secured a 30-year lease with NYU Langone Medical Center for the entire building, with almost no downtime in occupancy. Originally constructed in 2001, the 25-story office tower has been converted by NYU Langone over the past two years into a multispecialty ambulatory care facility that began accepting patients last month.

CBRE’s Capital Markets team, including Darcy Stacom and Bill Shanahan, represented Columbia in the marketing effort and transaction.

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