They bought control of the tower from Henry Crown and leased it to a group of investors called Empire State Building Associates.
But the current owners, Tishman Speyer Properties and Travelers Group, will retain control of the tower and the adjoining 32-story Chrysler East building.
A police unit sets out one morning to seize control of a tower block in Jakarta that has fallen into the hands of a gang.
With control of the tower, the inmates called the others from the shed, unlocked the rear gate and fled in a prison pickup truck.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site, would take control of the tower, as well as a retail mall and a second site at Greenwich and Cedar Streets, which would probably be sold to a residential developer.
But early on in his control of the Tower there were murders of rivals, and a number of those killed were cut up and thrown off of high stories, just as men are ritually executed in Venezuela's prisons, where he spent much of his life.
Deloitte, which was appointed to take control of the tower, previously said that the Gherkin's co-owners – a Mayfair-based investment bank and a German property investor, IVG Immobilien – had run into problems related to currency issues, rather than any difficulties with the wider property market.
In active control of the tower, the H∞ control method with a bilinear transform was proposed to obtain optimum efficiency under the limitation of damper stroke.
As part of the government's emergency intervention, the military took control of airport towers, warning civilian controllers that they would face prosecution for disobedience if they failed to resume work immediately.
With this new Boston-based company, Dodge kept control of the towers the stations used, figuring — correctly — that he would have no problem renting antenna space on the towers to cellular phone operators.
