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New York Post
3 days ago
- Business
- New York Post
Calvary Baptist Church's ‘miracle building' on West 57th Street gets 2 new leases
The 'miracle building' of West 57th Street, once and future home of Calvary Baptist Church, got two gifts from heaven this week. The almost-completed 30-story tower on Billionaires Row at 125 W. 57th St. scored two crucial leases. Ten Five Hospitality, creator of popular Mother Wolf restaurants in Miami, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, took 7,045 square feet for a 'new concept' eatery on the entire ground floor. At the same time, the development team of Alchemy-ABR Investment Partners and Cain International landed the project's first office lease. Medical equipment company AdaptHealth took the full 14th floor of 10,275 square feet. Advertisement 3 Rendering of 125 West 57th St. Neoscape The building, to open after Labor Day, is one of the city's most uplifting sagas. After the developers made a deal with the church in 2019 to replace its existing house of worship with a larger one within a new building, a loan agreement broke down in March 2020. The financing collapse combined with the pandemic appeared to doom the project, which depended on buying the church's property — including the faded Salisbury Hotel next door — for $130 million. Advertisement As we reported in 2021, the unidentified lender's pullout left the developers and the church in shock. 'We had term sheets and we were ready to close,' Cain senior managing director Eric Poretsky told us at the time. But Calvary, which urgently needed new capital to fund improvements, gave the developers time to find new funding. A loan from a Cain affiliate brought the $350 million project back to life. The handsome, 260,000 square-foot tower designed by architect Dan Kaplan's team at FX Collaborative stands between a pair of supertalls — One57 and 111 W. 57th St. It includes 185,000 square feet of office space and a full tenants' amenities floor. The 10,000 square-foot floor plates boast floor-to-ceiling windows and outdoor terraces. The church will occupy floors 2-10 with facilities for its congregation and for educational and community uses. 3 New 'boutique' office building on West 57th St nears completion. Neoscape Advertisement A JLL team led by Kristen Morgan and Mitchell Konsker is the landlord's rep for the office floors. They said that full-floor leases are out for a financial firm and a real estate company. CBRE's Ramsey Feher acted for AdaptHealth. Konsker said the amenities floor includes an outdoor portion overlooking West 57th Street. He praised the block's growing strength, which includes two hotels — Le Meridien, where a Shelly Fireman-run French brasseries just opened, and the Park Hyatt. Morgan said office asking rents are between $175-$250 per square foot for available floors, but the two highest floors not yet on the market will likely command bigger numbers. Advertisement The church entrance is on the tower's eastern side and the office entrance on the western side, with the restaurant between them. 3 Calvary Baptists Church's entrance is on the east side of the tower, while the office entrance will be on the west side. Neoscape The building stands next door to 111 W. 57th St., the condo tower which is 81% sold. The ground floor will soon be home to auction house Bonhams, a deal we first reported last September. Cain International's head of US Equity Eric Poretsky, said, 'Our decision to bring Ten Five Hospitality in is a reflection of our long-term conviction in the Plaza District and our belief in the continued appetite for best-in-class real estate — both in the workplace and in experiential retail environments. Ten Five's track record in creating culturally resonant, high-touch hospitality experiences makes them an ideal partner to activate this building.'
RNZ News
03-07-2025
- Climate
- RNZ News
Calls for government to prioritise upgrades to emergency phone-line
Loss of the 111 emergency services is nothing new. Photo: Supplied/ Unsplash - Árpád Czapp The head of the Telecommunications Forum wants the government to look at prioritising upgrades to the 111 emergency phone-line. Along with mobile and internet coverage, the service was lost in Golden Bay for most of the day on Thursday, after a slip cut a fibreoptic cable. Eight-hundred fibre connections and 350 copper phone-line connections were brought down in the morning, and repairs to the cable weren't completed until mid-afternoon. All but 20 copper connections had been restored by 4.45pm and were confirmed restored less than an hour later. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) said extreme weather could impact communications networks. "Telecommunications providers are working hard to restore the services that have been impacted," it said. "Technicians are on the ground to repair telecommunications equipment that has been damaged and generators are being deployed to the area to serve as a back-up power supply." Telecommunications Forum chief executive Paul Brislen told RNZ the loss of the 111 emergency contact service was nothing new. "111 isn't a separate network, it is simply a phone number on the phone network," he said. "It is carried in a slightly different way to all other phone numbers, but it is just a phone call." People caught without service had a range of options. "The 111-calling connection is quite smart, so even if your phone says you've got no signal, if you need to make an emergency call, you should absolutely try," Brislen said. "What it'll do is find any network, so if you're with Spark or One or 2degrees, and that network isn't available, it will find one of the others. It'll even connect via Wi-Fi to a landline connection, if you have Wi-Fi calling capability on your phone." However, if the call failed, the whole network was likely down and people should try something else, instead of calling again. "As has always been the case, you move to a place where there is a phone that you can use," Brislen said. "In the old days, before mobile, that meant driving over the road to somebody else or going next door, or heading into town, if you were remote. "With mobile service, of course, quite often, you can find connectivity at the top of the hill or not too far away." Tasman Civil Defence urged those who could not connect to 111 to travel to the nearest police or fire station. Brislen said the 111 emergency line needed upgrading, particularly its ability to receive messages other than voice calls. "In this day and age, you've got a lot of devices that will make contact with the call centre," he said. "Various car models will call, if they have an accident. "If you drop your phone, when you're on your motorbike, it will ring for help - that kind of thing happens all the time. "We've got this whole new wave of modern technology coming through, being used already by consumers, and it's very hard for the call centre to accept those inputs. Text messaging would be an absolute case in point - sometimes you're not able to make a phone call, but a text message will get through." He said the problem was not needing higher speeds, but rather upgrading the police-led call centre. Police documents last year revealed the outdated system caused deaths and injuries . The previous Labour government in August 2023 scrapped a project to replace it and the coalition has so far declined to restart it . Brislen said an upgrade would be a "very complex and very expensive programme of work". "I'd encourage the government to have a look at prioritising that and making the call centre into more of a 'contact centre', so that you can communicate more directly with emergency services, when you need to. "Making the decision to spend the money on a call centre for police may or may not be seen as frontline [or] vitally important, but I think probably we're reaching the point now, where you have to say it absolutely is." RNZ has sought comment from Emergency Management Minister Mark Mitchell. On the upside, MBIE said the phone networks were bringing in new technology to connect via satellite, saying this would "significantly improve the resilience of telecommunications networks". "All the mobile network operators are working with satellite operators to deliver satellite-to-mobile voice calling, allowing ongoing connectivity even when terrestrial networks are down." Brislen said the low-Earth orbit satellite technology would hopefully allow text messages and voice calls, via satellite, direct from a mobile phone, which was "sort of the golden egg... the holy grail of these things". "Starlink, for example, is one of the early players in that market," he said. "You'd be able to get a call up to a satellite or bounce a call off the satellite, even if you've got problems with the equipment on the ground in many cases. "That is really incredibly useful in events like this. "In that scenario, you should be able to make an emergency call from anywhere you've got clear line of sight with the sky." Telecommunications network companies like Chorus were constantly upgrading cables and particularly the fibre networks. "They now are looking at a programme of work," he said. "Instead of a point-to-point connecting to cities, you do a loop, so if half the cable is knocked out, for example, all the traffic is connected via the other side of the cable." The companies had providing a resilient and reliable network as part of their business model, and Brislen said they took that role "very seriously". "The key is to have multiple different types of networks that don't have a single point of failure. We've got four in New Zealand - we've got fibre, mobile, fixed wireless connections and now this new one of satellite. "No one single technology is perfect for all situations, but having that mix of four different technologies means, hopefully, one way or another, the call will get through." Brislen rejected the suggestion copper lines networks were still needed, noting New Zealand would phase them out "by the end of the decade". "It's not very resilient at all," he said. "It is seven times more likely to to be damaged in an event. "How copper lines work, you're sending an electrical signal up and down them, and when that gets wet, it basically short-circuits the entire connection, so they're very, very prone to breaks, they're very prone to damage during a weather event, in particular. "They cost more to repair and they take longer to repair as well, so all around the world, copper is being phased out. It's had its day and it really just doesn't deliver any of the things we need. "It's not fast enough, it's not mobile enough and it's not resilient enough." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Daily Mirror
02-07-2025
- Health
- Daily Mirror
Dying toddler waited 90 minutes for ambulance after call deemed 'not critical'
An inquest at Devon Coroner's Court heard that a paramedic crew could have reached three-year-old Theo Tuikubalau 'within 30 minutes' if his mum's 111 call was graded differently A critically ill toddler spent 90 of his remaining minutes before dying of sepsis waiting for an ambulance that could have come sooner if an emergency call was upgraded, an inquest has heard. Theo Tuikubalau, three, was suffering from a high temperature, flu-like symptoms, breathing issues, and a loss of appetite when his mum, Kayleigh Kenneford, called 111 on the evening of July 7, 2022. The tot, who had already been admitted and discharged from Plymouth's Derriford Hospital with a suspected upper respiratory infection the day prior, was becoming increasingly unwell. But when Ms Kenneford placed the call to the service, the 111 differently appraised a critical symptom. Jurors participating in an inquest at Devon Coroner's Court heard that the South West Ambulance Service Trust's Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System (AMPDS) graded Theo's breathing difficulties as a category one - indicating "life-threatening illnesses or injuries" - on July 6. But the 111 service's NHS Pathway - which uses a different method for grading emergencies from 999 calls - ranked similar symptoms as a category two the following day. The alternate appraisal meant crews took 90 minutes to reach Theo after Ms Kenneford first phoned for an ambulance shortly before 11pm on July 7. Theo was taken back to Derriford – arriving shortly after 1am – where he died a few hours later from sepsis, caused by an 'invasive' Strep A infection. Jon Knight, head of emergency operations at the South West Ambulance Service Trust, reviewed the 111 call and was asked what would have happened if it had been made to his employers. He said the childs' breathing difficulties would have triggered a category one through SWAST system. He said: "My belief is based on the trigger phrase that the patient was fighting for breath at the time, it would have triggered a cat one through the AMPDS system." Mr Knight said he was dealing with 'hypotheticals' as to how quickly a category one ambulance that night would have reached Theo, but added it would have "certainly" arrived fewer than 90 minutes earlier. He said: "It is really hard to commit to a time. It certainly would have been quicker than 90 minutes, would be my belief. 'I think with the right set of circumstances – if you didn't have an ambulance available in the area and you were bringing one from Derriford Hospital – you are probably looking at 30 minutes.' Mr Knight told the inquest that ambulance crews "made all the appropriate and correct decisions", however, with staff ready and waiting for the ambulance's arrival. Having reviewed documents relating to Theo's care that evening, he said the ambulance crew recognised he was seriously unwell and immediately took him to Derriford Hospital. He said: 'I think the crew made all the appropriate and correct decisions in their decision to leave the scene and take Theo to hospital." He added: "I absolutely support all of the decision-making that was made at the time." Andrew Morse, representing Theo's family, suggested if the call on July 7 had been assessed as a category one then he could have potentially arrived at the hospital by 11.45pm. He said: "On balance, given the testimony I've already given to the coroner, I think that that's a reasonable assumption." The inquest heard there was a paramedic crew who could have reached Theo within 33 minutes had his call been graded as category one. Megan Barker, Mr Knight's deputy, said: 'At best guess, if we compared that to the resource that did go approximately an hour and a bit later, it would have taken them around 30 to 33 minutes to get to Theo. We can guess that they would have spent a similar amount of time with Theo, so likely have had a hospital arrival time of about 30 minutes later. 'That puts us around maybe 12.10am.' The inquest before a jury at County Hall in Exeter continues.
TimesLIVE
30-06-2025
- Automotive
- TimesLIVE
Nissan aims to delay supplier payments to preserve cash flow, internal emails show
Nissan Motor has asked some suppliers to allow it to delay payments to free up short-term funds, according to several emails and a company document reviewed by Reuters, as the troubled Japanese carmaker scrambles to boost cash. New CEO Ivan Espinosa, who took over in April, has unveiled plans to shed about 15% of Nissan's global workforce and close seven plants as he targets ¥500bn (R60,528,840,000) in cost cuts over the next two years. Battered by slumping sales and weighed down by an ageing vehicle line-up, the car maker reported a $4.5bn (R80,111,672,100) net annual loss in the financial year that ended in March and has declined to give a forecast this year. Now, Nissan has asked some suppliers in Britain and the EU to accept delays in payment, according to the correspondence reviewed by Reuters and a person with knowledge of the matter. The move would allow it to have more cash on hand at the close of the April-June first quarter and follows similar requests before the end of the last financial year in March, the emails showed. It is not uncommon for companies to request payment extensions from suppliers to help free up cash. In a statement to Reuters, Nissan said it had incentivised some of its suppliers to collaborate under more flexible payment terms, at no cost to them, to support its free cash flow. 'They could choose to be paid immediately or opt for a later payment with interest,' Nissan said. The correspondence, which has not been previously reported, gives a detailed look at Nissan's effort to conserve cash in the short term, even if that means paying suppliers more down the line. The emails were exchanged among Nissan employees in Britain and the EU, including staff in its purchasing and treasury departments, according to their profiles on LinkedIn. One employee told co-workers in emails this month that suppliers were 'again' being asked for an extension of payment terms. It was in line with the aim to bolster free cash flow 'requested from CEO top down', the employee told colleagues.
New Straits Times
20-06-2025
- Business
- New Straits Times
Palm oil muted but poised for sixth weekly gain
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures were muted on Friday as traders awaited cargo surveyors' export estimates, but the contract was still set for a sixth consecutive weekly gain as stronger rival edible oils supported the market. The benchmark palm oil contract for September delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange gained RM7, or 0.17 per cent, to RM4,111 (US$967.52) a metric tonne in early trade. The contract has gained 5.50 per cent so far this week. Dalian's most-active soyoil contract rose 0.62 per cent, while its palm oil contract added 0.28 per cent. Soyoil prices on the Chicago Board of Trade were up 0.09 per cent. Palm oil tracks price movements of rival edible oils, as it competes for a share of the global vegetable oils market. Cargo surveyors are expected to release Malaysian palm oil export estimates for June 1–20 later in the day. Oil prices were on track to rise for the third straight week despite slipping on Friday, with investors on edge as the week-old war between Israel and Iran showed no signs of either side backing down. Weaker crude oil futures make palm a less attractive option for biodiesel feedstock. The ringgit, palm's currency of trade, strengthened 0.21 per cent against the dollar, making the commodity more expensive for buyers holding foreign currencies. Palm oil may test the resistance zone of RM4,157 to RM4,185 per metric tonne, a break above which could lead to a gain to RM4,229, Reuters technical analyst Wang Tao said.
