Real Estate Development

Kramer Levin’s Real Estate lawyers have extensive experience advising and assisting developers, owners and investors on a wide range of development and redevelopment projects in the New York City area and nationally. Our lawyers have helped reimagine New York City’s skyscape, playing an integral role in the development or redevelopment of hotels; residential, office, industrial and warehouse facilities; corporate campuses; shopping centers; urban developments; college and university campuses; religious and other not-for-profit properties; entertainment centers; and mixed-use projects.

We have advised on projects that include the development or redevelopment of:

• The 28-acre Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side
• The James A. Farley Post Office Building — now Moynihan Train Hall
• The iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel
• Central Park Tower, the world’s tallest residential building

Lawyers in our Condominiums and Sale-Leasebacks, Ground Leases and Other Hybrid Leasing Transactions practices counsel clients on mixed-use projects involving complex condominium and leasehold regimes to accommodate residential, retail, commercial, hospital, school, community facility and parking components.

Our team is pioneering concepts that are changing the vistas and terms of apartment living in the city. We have advised clients regarding conversions of numerous office and industrial buildings in New York’s Financial District and Garment Center to residential occupancy. We have also served as counsel on the construction of new buildings and the conversion to condominium ownership of buildings at Battery Park City.

Working closely with our Land Use and Environmental teams, we guide clients through multifaceted transactions, handle architectural and construction contracts, and ensure that everything — from complex transaction documents to transfers of development rights to environmental impact reviews to risk allocation and remediation — is appropriately addressed.