After four years of sales, the urban wear store launched by LeBron James and buddies, Unkwn, has taken office and showroom space in New York.

The retailer is within Space 530, a co-working and private work space on the mezzanine of 530 Seventh Ave. in the Garment Center.

Founded by James and five friends, the original store was to be located in Akron, Ohio, but traveled south to the Aventura Mall near Miami when the basketball star bounced there to play for the Heat.

Now with James back in a lovefest with the Cleveland Cavaliers fresh off its NBA championship, the New York City space, a private office within Space 530, has become a buyers’ hub for its e-commerce and retail.

Unknwn carries urban and sports brands from Nike to Bathing Ape, Comme des Garcons and even its own label.


A three-building package of 115 residential rentals in Greenwich Village and the East Village is being offered by Benchmark Properties through Eric Michael Anton of HFF with a total value of about $130 million.

With 54 units, the largest at 200 E. 11 St. is at the corner of Third Avenue near Astor Place. The apartments have free market rents with condo- level finishes, a gym, yoga room, outdoor space and a spectacular lobby. The other two include the 24-unit 82 W. 12 St., which has undergone a condo-level renovation and has a lovely roof deck, and the 37-unit walkup at 65 Bank St. Both buildings have mostly free market units with a few stabilized tenants.

“I’ve lived in Greenwich Village, and it continues to be a fashionable and sophisticated neighborhood with new restaurants and amenities like the High Line,” Anton said. “Given the instability in Europe, we anticipate strong demand for this trophy multifamily portfolio.”


A partnership led by CW Realty, which has amassed five dozen properties in Brooklyn, is making a foray into Manhattan. Led by Cheskie Weisz, the partnership has assembled a rare Upper East Side site where they intend to develop an approximately 120,000 square-foot residential condominium building. The developer has been working with HTO architects.

The main site is now occupied by a small corner apartment building at 355 E. 73 St., also known as 1361 First Ave. The seller, the Kadvan family has owned it for 60 years, and the Irish pub, Finnegan’s Wake, has been a retail tenant for the last 40 years. Its proprietor, Tony King, will move before the sale closes next year.

The site includes 1363 First Ave., which was purchased in January for $9.4 million through Shelton Franklin of S. Blair Partners. The remaining residential tenants in both buildings are relocating.

The new approximately 33-story building is expected to also use air rights from, and cantilever over, 1365 First Ave. and use air rights from 1369 and 1371 First Ave. It will be across from The Charles, which sold a
penthouse for $60 million, and is close to the new Second Avenue subway entrance.

Hillel Spinner, a spokesman for the project, said, “We really believe in this neighborhood, it has everything going for it.”


Philip Pilevsky’s Philips International has hired an Avison Young team to identify a net lessee who can make a prince out of a pauper.

Its current 205,000 square-foot building at 250 Church St., also known as 101 Franklin St., is being vacated by the city’s Dept. of Human Resources in August 2017 and needs a makeover. Any net lessee will therefore be expected to redevelop the Tribeca property into a trendy Class A office building, residential rental or boutique hotel.

The building sits on the sun-filled entire western block-front of Church between Franklin and Leonard streets across from both the new luxury tower at 56 Leonard, known informally as Jenga Tower, and New York Law School.

The Avison Young sales team includes Vincent Carrega, Jon Epstein, Neil Helman and Charles Kingsley.


JLT Group has signed a 19,516 square-foot lease for the entire seventh floor of 350 Madison Ave.

The long-term lease for the raw floor was negotiated for JLT Group by Jared Freede and Ken Rapp of CBRE. The company will consolidate from 400 Park Ave. and 600 Fifth Ave. locations.

The RFR ownership was repped by a JLL leasing team led by Alexander Chudnoff and Mitchell Konsker. RFR’s AJ Camhi also represented RFR in-house