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...round, paneled office atop the Manhattan headquarters of Webb & Knapp, Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf has three telephones, a bronze Matisse nude, but no windows. The reason, says the room's designer, is that for a showman like Bill Zeckendorf "it would be ridiculous to create any environment for him other than one consisting exclusively of himself...
...this environment, Zeckendorf is rarely diverted from dreaming up big and complicated real-estate deals. Last week he invited reporters into his office to disclose his biggest deal yet. He had just bought control from the Chrysler family of the famed, spire-topped Chrysler Building, its annex, the Chrysler Building East, and the nearby Graybar Building† owned by Eastern Offices, Inc. Price: $52 million. It was the biggest office-building transaction in modern real-estate history, approached only by the sale of the Empire State Building for $51.5 million...
...WILLIAM Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, the Manhattan real-estate company which bought Charlie Chaplin's Hollywood lot for $650,000, will lease the studio to television film producers, build a big new shopping center on the vacant part of the land...
...WILLIAM Zeckendorf, boss of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp real-state and investment firm, is planning a huge, new project: a 22-story, $100 million building to cover two blocks on New York City's West Side as a showcase for American merchandise. The building, rising above the Pennsylvania Railroad's underground tracks, would have more floor space (6,000,000 to 7,000,000 sq. ft.) than any other building in the world, and have a heliport on the roof...
MANHATTAN Realtor William Zeckendorf, who sold the site for the U.N., plans to buy two of New York's most famous skyscrapers: the 77-story Chrysler Building, second tallest building in the world; and the 33-story Graybar Building, which houses many of Manhattan's big Madison Avenue ad agencies. Price: $70 million (v. the original construction cost of some $60 million). Major part of the financing will probably come in a $40 million mortgage from Equitable Life...