Losses rise at Kushner tower
Losses widened at the Manhattan office tower co-owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, as debt payments increased in 2016, according to documents filed by the managers of the loans.
Losses widened at the Manhattan office tower co-owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, as debt payments increased in 2016, according to documents filed by the managers of the loans.
Kushner has divested his interest in the tower to family to prevent conflicts of interest with his government role.
Net operating income at 666 Fifth Ave. grew 2.7 percent from the previous year to $41.3 million, while debt payments rose 11 percent to $55.8 million, the figures filed by LNR Partners show. After accounting for loan payments, losses totaled $14.5 million, up from about $10 million in 2015. Occupancy at the tower jumped to 80 percent at the end of 2016, a gain from 70 percent in September, the documents show.
Repayment terms for more than $1.2 billion of debt on the Midtown property are growing more punitive as a 2019 due date draws near, Bloomberg reported last month. Jared Kushner, now a senior adviser to the president, broke price records when he purchased 666 Fifth for his family firm, Kushner Cos., in 2007.
His father, Charles Kushner, has searched for partners to convert it into a luxury residential property. China's Anbang Insurance Group Co. had been in advanced talks to team up on a redevelopment of the building. Those discussions ended in late March.
A spokesman for Kushner Cos. said the firm is in active, advanced discussions on the building but declined to comment on the financials. A representative of Vornado Realty Trust, which owns 49.5 percent of the building's office space, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.