Peter Grant
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2,232 appearances
7 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 9 Jul
Peter Grant’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This building is right near the Chrysler Building, right near Grand Central Terminal.
Our colleague Peter Grant covers commercial real estate.
People saw from the outside that the building seemed to buckle.
And that's a very serious situation.
It could lead to a collapse.
And so immediately, once people saw this and notified the authorities, the fire department, the building department, they realized how serious the situation could become, and they sprang into action.
The greatest fear is a collapse, which could be a calamity.
It could cause an enormous amount of lost lives and injury and property damage.
This is a very high-profile project, and we've been very closely covering the conversion trend, and this is the biggest conversion in the country, so it certainly caught my attention.
Well, as we've been reporting, the conversion trend is a very important piece of what's happening in downtowns throughout the country, especially New York.
It's a big issue.
And the project at the Pfizer building was in some ways pushing the envelope architecturally and in terms of size.
And so everybody who's in this business is noticing it.
The building used to be the headquarters of Pfizer.
It's actually not one building.
It's two buildings.
It's a huge structure.
The two buildings combined are about 1.2 million square feet.
It was not the most dramatic or noteworthy office building in the city, but it was a very large building that took up an enormous amount of space.
And
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