Amazing where you find some things:
"Merrill Lynch Expected to Quit Downtown for Midtown" by CHARLES V. BAGLI
Merrill Lynch & Company, the world’s largest brokerage firm, appears ready to move its longtime headquarters from Lower Manhattan to a new skyscraper in Midtown, across Seventh Avenue from Pennsylvania Station, according to government officials and real estate executives.
The move would be a blow to downtown and its supporters in Albany, including Gov. Eliot Spitzer, and it would hobble efforts to re-establish ground zero as a financial center. But it would be a major boost to the developer Steven Roth’s ambitions for the Penn Station area.
Both Larry A. Silverstein, the developer at ground zero, and Brookfield Properties, Merrill’s current landlord at the nearby World Financial Center, submitted sweetened last-minute offers last week that were as much as $1 billion cheaper than the Midtown option, according to government officials and real estate executives who have been briefed on the negotiations.
[Well, he cleared $7 billion from the insurance after 9/11, so he can low ball bid, can't he?
Decided to PULL IT, then, Lar?]
The potential relocation, which would not occur until 2013, comes as Merrill reported $7.9 billion in write-downs yesterday, leading to its first quarterly loss in six years. State officials hold out hope that the company’s difficult financial situation will prompt it to reconsider leaving Lower Manhattan."
[Look at this!
Yeah, we hope your shitty financial condition will BENEFIT US?
Can there be a MORE SELFISH COUNTRY than America?
Of course, the New York Times says nothing about WTC 7 or anything else involving Lucky Larry's grand payday.
And never will, since they are COMPLICIT and COLLABORATIVE in the COVER-UP!
You'll NEVER find the truth about 9/11 in the New York Times, that's for sure!
That's why BLOGS RULE NOW!!!!!!!!!!
