A 155-acre complex of office buildings, showrooms, hangar-size garages, sales lots and campsites, Lazydays is the country's largest recreational vehicle dealership.
Marketing in the building's showroom at the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue has all but stopped.
We began at the venerable Worth & Worth — each hat was marked 1922, for the company's inaugural year — a few floors up in a nondescript Midtown building, more showroom than shop.
Last year, the new owners, the S L Green Realty Corporation, considered marketing it again as a hotel but now believe its value lies in redevelopment as an office building, with showrooms on the lower floors.
This is where 25-year-old Nepalese father-of-two Ujjwal Bishwakarma lives in squalor with colleagues who work six or seven days a week building car showrooms, apartments and supermarkets.
The architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White had recently (1904 1906) completed the building of showrooms, offices, and workshops for Gorham.
A lot of these buildings housed showrooms for the great department stores that used to be in this part of NY.
Harvey L. Richer, the director of leasing at 230 Fifth Avenue, a longstanding showroom building, said that over the last year in his building, which is managed by Newmark & Company, 16 tenants have taken more space, while 13 new tenants have moved in.
Mr. Helmsley converted it to a sportswear showroom building.
Another prominent showroom building, 261 Fifth Avenue, is being acquired by L&L Acquisitions, a Manhattan real estate company, in partnership with the Carlyle Group of Washington, an investment fund manager.
