A group led by George Comfort & Sons and RCG Longview has sweet talked its way back into a deal with Deutsche Bank for the Worldwide Plaza office building, sources told The Post.
According to people familiar with the matter, the buying group, which was originally set to buy the 47-story tower through a joint venture with Deutsche Bank, learned on Friday that the complicated deal would proceed, albeit on “different” terms than had been negotiated earlier this month.
Competing bidders, including Larry Silverstein, were being called today by investment marketers at Eastdil Secured and told they were out of the running.
The original deal called for Comfort and RCG Longview to contribute less than $200 million in equity, while Deutsche provided a mortgage of around $450 million and retained a stake in the tower.
It was unclear how the revised deal would be structured.
