紐約地標建築索尼大廈13億美元易手
550 Madison Avenue, the former Sony building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, has a new owner and a new — but as yet unknown — name.
麥迪遜大街550號是曾經的索尼大廈(Sony Building)，這座位於曼哈頓中城核心地帶的建築如今有了新的東家和仍不爲人所知的新名字。
Two property investors, the US subsidiary of Saudi conglomerate Olayan Group and London-based Chelsfield, have agreed to pay between $1.3bn and $1.4bn to buy the New York property — one of the city’s landmark office buildings.
兩家房地產投資公司——沙特集團Olayan Group的美國子公司和總部位於倫敦的Chelsfield——已達成協議，以13億至14億美元收購這一紐約不動產和該市地標性辦公樓之一。
Its previous owner, Chetrit Group, had hoped to convert much of the 37-story tower into exclusive condominiums and a luxury hotel. But news of the sale puts an end to its plans, at a time when the residential property market in New York, as in other financial capitals, softens.
該大樓前東家Chetrit Group曾希望將這棟37層大樓的大部分改造爲共管公寓和豪華酒店。然而，在紐約的樓市像其他金融中心城市的樓市一樣出現疲軟之際，該大樓易手的消息爲改造計劃畫上了句號。
Chetrit had planned to charge up to $32m for a duplex unit if its planned conversion into residential space had gone through — fitting for a structure where interior scenes for the movie Wall Street were filmed.
若原計劃的住宅改造得以實施，Chetrit原本打算對一套複式公寓開價最高3200萬美元——對於電影《華爾街》(Wall Street)曾拍攝內景的建築來說，這一價格十分合適。
Instead, the new owners plan to keep the building as it is today: one of the premier office and commercial addresses in New York.
然而，大樓的新東家計劃將大樓保持今天的原樣，也就是仍作爲紐約豪華辦公和商業場所之一。
The deal represents a modest uplift on the $1.1bn that Chetrit paid in 2013. “It is neither an over the top crazy price paid for with lots of leverage, nor is it super cheap,” said one real estate investor familiar with the transaction.
比起Chetrit在2013年支付的11億美元，這一交易的價格略有上升。熟悉該交易的一名房地產投資者表示：“這既不是大舉依靠槓桿的、過高的瘋狂價格，也不是超級便宜的賤價。”
550 Madison Avenue was designed by architect Philip Johnson and his partner John Burgee in the postmodern style of the 1980s.
麥迪遜大街550號由建築師菲利普•約翰遜(Philip Johnson)和其合作伙伴約翰•伯吉(John Burgee)按照上世紀80年代的後現代風格設計而成。
With its distinctive Chippendale-style roof pediment, the tower featured in several movies, and its huge atrium contained the Sony Wonder Technology Lab — a multimedia museum — as well as a Sony retail outlet. It has only ever had two major tenants: original occupants AT&T, and Sony itself. Sony moved downtown two months ago.
帶着獨特的奇彭代爾式的屋頂山牆，這座大樓曾出現在多部電影中。大樓巨大的中庭包括了多媒體博物館——索尼奇蹟技術實驗室(Sony Wonder Technology Lab)和一家索尼(Sony)零售門店。該大樓只有過兩家主要的租客：最初的租客AT&T，以及索尼自身。兩個月前，索尼已遷至下城區。
Olayan and Chelsfield expect the deal to close in May. In the meantime, the two buyers will seek new tenants for the space — and may offer a big enough tenant the chance to have its name on the building.
Olayan和Chelsfield預計交易將在5月份完成。同時，兩家買主還將爲這一辦公空間尋找新的租客，並可能爲規模足夠大的租客提供大樓的冠名權。
Few other upmarket buildings are available in the most prestigious part of New York. Most new office space has come on either downtown, around the rebuilt World Trade Center, or in new projects on the far west side where Hudson Yards has attracted tenants including private equity group KKR.
在紐約這個最負盛名的地段，可供出租的其他高檔大樓寥寥無幾。多數新的辦公空間要麼來自下城區重建的世貿中心(World Trade Center)附近，要麼來自紐約最靠西邊的新地產項目——那裏的哈德遜廣場吸引了包括私人股本集團KKR在內的多家租客。
