It is time to turn our attention to what is happening in the NOW. The business of politics...

The start of a whole new series folks. This is a very rich area of investigation and research...

Putting down some links here for future reference. Apart from a number of real estate companies that I have been looking at over time, it was the following post that turned me on to Dock 72, and so here I will start : The Standard Hotel's new owner is Gaw Capital. Connections with Alphy's Soda Pop Club to Brightest Young Things and Transformer DC.

Dock 72 https://www.dock72.com/meet-the-team/

Partners Rudin Management https://www.rudin.com/about

The Rudin family controls one of the largest privately owned real estate companies in New York City.

Related voat post : NYC - Core Club: $50K Initiation Fee - Overnight Suites - Secret Entrance - Members: Clinton, Burkle, Ghislaine Maxwell, Rothschild - Focus on Modern "Art," Which May be Involved in Child Trafficking

Member: Beth Rudin DeWoody – background - major collector of art (held in The Bunker) - runs her family’s foundations – supported Hillary Clinton - home: one eye, swirl and sheep, next picture small boy and hot dog

Here's a Little Sis networking map for Ms Rudin DeWoody : Interlocks between NYPD, New York City Police Foundation, PAL, and Big Business Interests

The New Hot Spot for NYC Office Space: Brooklyn https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-hot-spot-for-nyc-office-space-brooklyn-1486925530

Like many expanding technology companies in New York, 2U Inc. had been on a hunt for office space in a neighborhood setting surrounded by like-minded businesses. It finally found its spot—not in the usual tech precincts of Manhattan, but over the bridge in Brooklyn’s Dumbo area.

The education-technology company this week is expected to sign a lease for almost 80,000 square feet on the upper floors of 55 Prospect St., a building that is part of a 1.2 million-square-foot redevelopment of former industrial buildings called Dumbo Heights. In December, 2U will vacate its 20,000 square feet of space at Chelsea Piers and make the move.

“It’s a big move coming from the cool part of Chelsea to Dumbo, but I think it sort of celebrates how Brooklyn has not only grown but has been established as a creative class,” said Asher Abehsera, chief executive of LIVWRK, which has partnered with Kushner Cos. and RFR Holding to redevelop the Dumbo Heights buildings.

In the past few years, a number of big developers have jumped into Brooklyn with significant redevelopment projects and plans for new ground-up towers from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to downtown Brooklyn and Bushwick.

The Dumbo area, in particular, has pulled a number of tenants from Manhattan’s hot Midtown South neighborhoods. In 2016, advertising agency 72andSunny signed a lease to move from about 13,000 square feet at 30 Cooper Square in Manhattan to 63,000 square feet in the 19th-century warehouse complex called Empire Stores on the Dumbo waterfront. Media firms Laundry Service and Cycle also have signed deals to relocate to Empire Stores this year from 40 W. 25th St. in Manhattan.

Developers say they are expecting an uptick in interest and leasing as the projects get closer to completion. Dock 72, a Brooklyn Navy Yard project anchored by co-working space giant WeWork Cos., will be ready for tenants to build out spaces in 2017. The developers behind it, Rudin Development and Boston Properties Inc., are expecting activity to pick up this spring.

Voat related post on 72andsunny:

Canada Arrests Huawei CFO at Request of U.S. Authorities

[I recommend you read the whole link. Some excerpts...]

A deep, deep, rabbithole.. https://twitter.com/intheMatrixxx/status/1024360652092178435

NXIVM IS BIGGER than we think.

Friend of Annabel Yao - Karlie Kloss https://lbbonline.com/news/supermodel-super-nerd-karlie-kloss-stars-in-new-campaign-for-adidas/

Sure enough, there is a Bronfman connection in Hannah Bronfman. Plus- the creative agency is 72andSunny

72andSunny is an advertising agency with offices in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and New York City . It was founded in 2004 by John Boiler (now CEO), Glenn Cole (now chief creative officer), and Robert Nakata (now design director).[1] Since 2010 it has been a subsidiary of MDC Partners Inc.

MDC Partners was founded as Multi Discipline Communications in 1980[4] in Toronto by Miles Nadal.

Miles Nadal founded Peerage Capital Inc., (subsidiary Artemis Investment Management Limited )

François-Henri Pinault (French: [pino]; born 28 May 1962) is a French businessman, the chairman and CEO of Kering since 2005, and President of Groupe Artémis since 2003. Under his leadership, Kering divested the retail industry and became a luxury group.

François-Henri Pinault is a regular participant, together with his wife, to the investment bank Allen & Co.'s annual weeklong conference organized every year in Sun Valley, Idaho.

The Schumer network: Mark Zuckerberg seen in private talks with New York senator and NFL head Roger Goodell at Allen & Co while Kathryn Murdoch makes rare appearance and Jeff Bezos chats with Fiat heir

(Fiat heir you say? https://imgur.com/a/aVhHtrZ Take a good long look at this image. How is it relevant to this post? Much, much more to come...)