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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 564999"><p>Easily, if a company ended up owning one of these buildings and became a prime tenant of its own building, it would definitely consider it. Right now, it is real estate companies and/or investment funds that own these two buildings and derive more benefit(and the ability to collect more rent) from using these well established names. These real estate companies don't need to advertise their names to the public, as a matter of fact, some may not want to because the owners don't want the general public to know who really owns the building.</p><p></p><p>For example, there is a building known as the GM building around 58th street and 5th avenue. If you look just a little bit , you will find that the building is now owned by middle eastern companies(dubai ,etc). </p><p></p><p>I tried to look into the ownership of the empire state building. I know trump and helmsley corp once jointly owned the building. I think Trump sold his share a few years back and now both helmsleys (leona and her husband ) are dead , so I was curious as to who owned it. I can't find nothing.</p><p></p><p>As for the Chrysler building, I see that it was recently owned (majority wise) by a german firm. The german firm, very recently , sold its stake to a company by the name of Abu Dhabi investment authority which now owns 90 percent of the chrysler building. </p><p></p><p>I took this paragraph off of wikipedia:</p><p></p><p>The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) is a sovereign wealth fund owned by Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ADIA has never published how much it has in assets. As a result of this, there is some debate on how much the fund has under control. Accepted estimates have been between $650 billion to approximately $875 billion in assets.[1] On November 26, 2007, ADIA agreed to invest $7.5 billion in Citigroup, the largest United States bank. This deal gives ADIA 4.9% of the New York-based bank, making it the second largest shareholder, with Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom Holding of Saudi Arabia the third largest shareholder, with 4.3%.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As mentioned somewhere in this thread, there is a building now known as the metlife building that was once known as the pan am building.(as iconic as sears towers) It is a very prominent building above grand central station that your eyes go toward to if you are standing on park avenue . Pan Am went bankrupt in the late 80s and metlife bought the building and put its name/logo up on both prominent sides of the building. Metlife sells a lot of products to the general public so it made all the sense in the world to put their name and logo on the this building.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 564999"] Easily, if a company ended up owning one of these buildings and became a prime tenant of its own building, it would definitely consider it. Right now, it is real estate companies and/or investment funds that own these two buildings and derive more benefit(and the ability to collect more rent) from using these well established names. These real estate companies don't need to advertise their names to the public, as a matter of fact, some may not want to because the owners don't want the general public to know who really owns the building. For example, there is a building known as the GM building around 58th street and 5th avenue. If you look just a little bit , you will find that the building is now owned by middle eastern companies(dubai ,etc). I tried to look into the ownership of the empire state building. I know trump and helmsley corp once jointly owned the building. I think Trump sold his share a few years back and now both helmsleys (leona and her husband ) are dead , so I was curious as to who owned it. I can't find nothing. As for the Chrysler building, I see that it was recently owned (majority wise) by a german firm. The german firm, very recently , sold its stake to a company by the name of Abu Dhabi investment authority which now owns 90 percent of the chrysler building. I took this paragraph off of wikipedia: The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) is a sovereign wealth fund owned by Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ADIA has never published how much it has in assets. As a result of this, there is some debate on how much the fund has under control. Accepted estimates have been between $650 billion to approximately $875 billion in assets.[1] On November 26, 2007, ADIA agreed to invest $7.5 billion in Citigroup, the largest United States bank. This deal gives ADIA 4.9% of the New York-based bank, making it the second largest shareholder, with Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom Holding of Saudi Arabia the third largest shareholder, with 4.3%. As mentioned somewhere in this thread, there is a building now known as the metlife building that was once known as the pan am building.(as iconic as sears towers) It is a very prominent building above grand central station that your eyes go toward to if you are standing on park avenue . Pan Am went bankrupt in the late 80s and metlife bought the building and put its name/logo up on both prominent sides of the building. Metlife sells a lot of products to the general public so it made all the sense in the world to put their name and logo on the this building. [/QUOTE]
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