El 3 de agosto de 2016 la organización cerró la venta de su complejo de sede central de 25/30 Columbia Heights (unos 733.000 pies cuadrados, comprado a Squibb en 1969 por 3 millones de dólares) a una sociedad formada por Kushner Companies, CIM Group y LIVWRK; la información periodística y los registros públicos sitúan el precio en 340 millones de dólares, cifra que el propio comunicado de la organización no reveló.
Claim ID claim-authority-2016-brooklyn-headquarters-sold-for-340mConcerns 3 de agosto de 2016Resultado
La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: El portavoz Richard Devine: la venta forma parte de la consolidación de oficinas dispersas en una nueva sede construida a tal efecto en Warwick (Nueva York).
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5 de agosto de 2016 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
“On August 3, 2016, Jehovah’s Witnesses officially closed on the sale of their former world headquarters facility, located at 25/30 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, New York. The sale, to a partnership of Kushner Companies and LIVWRK”
States the property is approximately 733,608 gross sq ft, includes 50 and 58 Columbia Heights and 55 Furman Street, and was bought from Squibb in 1969. No price is disclosed.
4 de agosto de 2016 · Katherine Clarke · The Real Deal
“A partnership led by Kushner Companies, CIM Group and LIVWRK has finalized a deal for the famed Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Watchtower building in Brooklyn … The deal, valued at $340 million, is one of the largest ever closed in the borough.”
Notes the 733,000 sq ft headquarters at 25-30 Columbia Heights, that RFR dropped out, and that the same partners had earlier bought five other former Witness buildings in Dumbo for $375 million.
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“At one point, its portfolio totaled 37 properties in Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo — including a pack of six buildings that sold for $375 million to a team led by Jared Kushner and RFR Realty … $1 billion: The total amount three buildings owned by the Jehovah’s Witnesses — 25-30 Columbia Heights, 124 Columbia Heights … and a giant parking lot at 85 Jay Street in Dumbo — could fetch.”
Also states the headquarters was bought for $3 million in 1969 and gives a (third-party study) estimate of $368 million in property tax exemption over 12 years — treat that figure as an estimate, not a fact.
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