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ANS has sold its Manhattan building for $24 million

The nation's preeminent authority on coin collecting, the American Numismatic Society sold it's building at 140 William St. in downtown Manhattan to real estate mogul Kent Swig for $24 million.

CB Richard Ellis' Tim Sheehan and Ned Midgley represented the seller and also negotiated a new lease for the society at One Hudson Square.

The 35,000 square foot building is at the corner of William and Fulton in Downtown Manhattan.

Swig is the president of Swig Equities and co-chairman of Terra Holdings, LC, the parent company of real estate investment and management firm Brown Harris Stevens.

According to its website, Swig Equities owns and manages over four million square feet of commercial office space in Manhattan.

Sheehan is a senior vice president of broker services for CBRE's tri-state region. He joined the firm in 2002 from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey where he served as assistant director of real estate.

Midgley is a vice president of broker services for CBRE in New York City. Previously he was a real estate investment banker at Dean Witter Reynolds.

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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    Yet I get "requests" for donations all the time.
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    related to Ben Swig?

    may be a sign of danger or just doing what's best at the time. from my past expereince the former.

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,421 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wonder how much they owed on the building they just sold?

    Didn't they just move there from upper Manhattan a few years ago?
    All glory is fleeting.


  • << <i>I wonder how much they owed on the building they just sold?

    Didn't they just move there from upper Manhattan a few years ago? >>




    Yes, from the old location in which the neighborhood had turned dangerous and few people wanted to
    visit there for seminars etc. The new location was apparently too expensive but they didn't realize that until
    after they closed the deal. Not too long ago they were forced to sell some of their holdings in military decorations
    because they were short on money. Not sure what their annual budget is but $24 million sounds like a windfall.
  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,162 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm a little bit po'd at the ANS. I, too, was hit up for a major donation with the understanding that a certain coin exhibition was forthcoming. Haven't seen a mention of it since. With this sale, they would seem to have all the funds necessary to operate for quite some time...
  • seateddimeseateddime Posts: 6,179 ✭✭✭
    time to give some cash back out?
    I seldom check PM's but do check emails often jason@seated.org

    Buying top quality Seated Dimes in Gem BU and Proof.

    Buying great coins - monster eye appeal only.

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