New York

Private equity continues to gravitate to deals in commercial real estate.

An appellate court ruled one incident of illegal activity, in this case dealing in ivory, was enough to end an art and antique store's lease. But the dealer's attorney is going to a higher court.

The private equity fund administrator will relocate its headquarters to 48,000 square feet across two floors in the Midtown East tower.

The Brooklyn facility, a former warehouse, will be the largest climbing gym in New York City when it opens in the summer of 2019.

Sabey Data Center Properties agrees to rent the entire top floor of its Lower Manhattan tower, known as the Verizon Building, to the architecture firm for 20 years.

With this last round, bringing funding to total $260 million, the flexible workspace provider plans to go global.

The campus is currently used for administrative functions of the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, which occupies four buildings on the site as well as the on-site power plant. In March 2017, ESD issued a Request for Expressions of Interest for the site.

Its first fund for this asset class also exceeded $1 billion when it closed in 2013.