City backtracks on big Bronx industrial deal after ‘unauthorized’ video by Adams ally

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is distancing itself from a planned acquisition of a large Bronx industrial center after it emerged that a city real estate official — who is close friends with Adams — had gone to unusual lengths to promote the deal.The administration had been in talks to purchase or lease the newly-built Bronx Industrial Center for as much as $670 million, City Councilman Lincoln Restler said at a hearing on Tuesday. Louis Molina, Commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative services, acknowledged that he had met to discuss the possible deal on Oct. 8 with his deputy, Jesse Hamilton, and brokers from Cushman & Wakefield, including the firm’s vice chair Diana Boutross. Days earlier, Hamilton’s and Boutross’s phones had been seized as part of a bribery probe by the Manhattan district attorney.But Molina appeared taken by surprise Tuesday when Restler showed a grainy video in which Hamilton, who supervises the city’s real estate holdings, encouraged city agencies to consider the “phenomenal,” “state-of-the-art industrial space.” Molina said he had never seen the video, which had previously been posted online but was not produced by DCAS’s communications office. Molina said that the acquisition of the Bronx Logistics Center was still “in the early stages of consideration.”Hours later Tuesday evening, the city disowned the whole concept. A DCAS spokesman said that the agency is “not moving forward with the lease or acquisition of the Bronx... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'

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