In turn, he said, that helped the company to secure lease commitments from tenants for a significant amount of the retail space as well as from the theater and garage operator.
Other documents center around messages sent to the DOJ by David Grannis, the former staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, about authorizing Senate staffers to return to a secure facility leased by the CIA so they could finish fact-checking and writing the torture report.
Some of those inside the reserve secure leases by greasing palms; others pay wardens for illegal permits, or start up as temporary camps and never leave.
As attorney general in 2009, Mr. Cuomo accused Fortuna Energy, now Talisman Energy, of using "industry-prevalent misleading and deceptive tactics" to secure leases and then pressure landowners into extensions, including the threat of obtaining liens against properties.
By the mid-1980s the program had given titles to about 400,000 tenants and secure leases to another 600,000, but the economic viability of the new units has been uncertain because of their small scale and the lack of supplementary facilities.
If Mr. Silverstein was able to raise $300 million in cash and secure leases from corporate tenants for about 400,000 square feet of space for a larger second tower, the city, the state and the authority would provide up to $600 million in financial assistance for that building, also on Church Street.
Virgin Active, which has nearly 900,000 members, said it planned to expand its international business, having secured lease agreements for 20 new clubs.
A $50,000 bribe had been paid in a Panama City bar to help the company secure a lease on a waterfront site adjoining the Panama Canal.
Residents lobbied their elected officials, found a new location and secured a lease and the Postal Service relented, said Tom Samuels, 47, another former civic association president.
It was reported on Friday that the first Alexander Wang store in the UK will open in London early next year, with the company having secured a lease on a former post office in Mayfair.
