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Manhattan’s forward-thinking, full-service real estate firm, Adams & Co. (Adams), has announced that Recursive Research, Inc, a crypto currency fund, has signed a 5,186-square-foot lease at 121 East 24^th Street taking the entire seventh floor.

“121 East 24^th Street is an ideal building for tech-focused tenants looking to be in the heart of the Flatiron neighborhood which has been widely recognized as the center of Silicon Alley,” Jeff Buslik, Executive Managing Director of Adams & Co. “We have been seeing more and more technology and crypto companies moving to this area as it has transformed into New York’s technological hub. For Recursive Research, this space offered an office that could fit the company’s growing business and be easily accessible to employees.”

Jeff Buslik and Bradley Cohn of Adams & Co. represented the landlord, Kofler Associates and Steven Evans of Platinum Properties represented the tenant in the transaction. Asking rent was approximately $52 per square-foot.

Located on 24^th Street between Park and Lexington, 121 East 24^th Street is an 12-story building built in 1942. It features full-floor office spaces with high, open ceilings and central A/C. 121 East 24^th is conveniently placed near many subway lines including the 6, F, M, N, Q, R and W trains.

For more information about Adams and 121 East 24^th Street, visit https://www.adamsre.com/products/121-east-24th-street

Greenbridge Finance, a private finance company focused on the origination of loans for commercial real estate acquisitions and recapitalizations, and Deutsche Bank have co-originated $150 million to refinance The Reef in Downtown Los Angeles.

Greenbridge Finance is a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenbridge Investment Partners, a fully integrated commercial real estate platform that acquires and repositions underperforming properties to become “best-in-class” assets across all commercial real estate sectors. The loan joins a list of major company acquisition and leasing milestones over the last six months. Greenbridge’s principals include Sean Hashem and Fareed Kanani and partner Josh Farahi.

“Greenbridge applies a similar investment philosophy to its property portfolio and loan book,” said Sean Hashem, principal with Greenbridge Investment Partners and Greenbridge Finance. “Knowing long-term market trends and fundamentals are always essential considerations, but we look beyond the numbers. We spend time understanding an asset’s potential, learning the needs of its tenants and projecting future profits for both. We immerse ourselves in the local neighborhood and often observe community virtues or friction that impact an asset’s ultimate success. These criteria revealed The Reef’s long-term viability as a business and a borrower.”

Located at 1933 South Broadway near the 10 and 110 freeways and walking distance from the Expo and Blue light rail lines, The Reef offers over 800,000 rentable square feet of creative habitat tailored to meet the needs of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and diverse creators.

The 12-floor plus basement building unites LA Mart, the largest gift, home, and design resource in the West; Maker City LA, a workspace for creative businesses and entrepreneurs; and Magic Box, which offers facilities for media production, events, and experiential marketing. The property’s long-term tenants and short-term renters of event space include fashion, technology, media, design and the arts, and trade show producers small and large to collaborate and flourish in our spaces.

“Los Angeles is the global epicenter of creativity and there is a steady pipeline of demand for space to work. The building’s design and location make it an ideal location to launch and grow creative businesses,” Hashem added.

The Reef joins a growing list of current and former borrowers of Greenbridge’s short-term, floating rate capital and long term, fixed-rate financing for property acquisitions and recapitalizations of existing assets.

Greenbridge offers a variety of non-recourse loans ranging from $5 million-$200 million with loan-to-value and loan-to-cost ratios of up to 85% on all property types — office, retail, hotel, industrial, multifamily, mobile home, self-storage and mixed-use — in all markets across the United States. Greenbridge offers the ability to structure the entire capital stack of commercial real estate loans including senior, B-note, mezzanine and preferred equity.

For more information or to speak with Greenbridge Finance about financing options, contact 310-273-2277.

Steven Adams called it a "weird thing." Nope. His handshake with Nick Collison was as normal as any Thunder’s pregame ritual.

And then it was gone … sort of. Collison retired before this season, leaving a crushing void in Adams’ routine before tip-off. Before every game, pretty much every Thunder player received a big right arm from the 7-footer to interlock with theirs. Adams and Collison, however, always shared a traditional handshake and serious look in each other’s eyes.

So, in the first game of the Post-Collison Era, Adams was in the background of the Fox Sports Oklahoma broadcast giving a firm handshake to no one.

"It was one of those real lonely, desperate sort of moments," Adams told The Oklahoman. "I just did it anyway, just to see."

Before every game, the Thunder has a collection of handshake moments that could be the most unique in the NBA.

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Every NBA team has intricate pregame handshakes and rituals, but it would be tough to find the team with as many quirks as the Thunder’s bunch.

Some keep it simple like Adams. Russell Westbrook’s pregame has evolved from a dance routine with then-rookie Cameron Payne in 2016 to a simple (but really high) back-bump with Raymond Felton.

Just as Westbrook adjusts his game from year-to-year based on his teammates, he does so with pregame.

"It depends," Westbrook said of the pregame handshake. "Depends on the person, how long you’ve known them, how long they’ve been here."

It’s why Adams’ transition was initially awkward. In the Thunder’s first game of the season at home against the Knicks, Adams embraced that air with the same seriousness of the previous five seasons with Collison.

"We did that for so long. And then it just felt so weird when I was starting the game, and I was just like, ‘Oh, old mate’s not here anymore,’" Adams said.

Some guys just don’t bother. Thunder center Nerlens Noel can appreciate the intricacies of pregame, but he said he made a choice to just keep it regular.

"I don’t really get into it because I just like to focus, but man … they’ve got hella handshakes," said Noel, who said the handshakes in his previous stops (Philadelphia and Dallas) don’t compare to OKC.

"I’m not used to that. I can’t remember all them joints."

Terrance Ferguson and Jerami Grant can.

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The Thunder doesn’t have a Dean of Dance or a Headmaster of Handshakes. But if you pay attention, you’ll see where the most detailed performances are coming from.

"Paul and Jerami’s got the funkiest," Noel said, before exhibiting a (very) minor dance number he cuts off before it gets too funky.

"Yeah, it’s funny looking but it’s nice though."

The starting lineup announcements are often when those in arena get the best look at the handshakes and dance moves under a spotlight. Ferguson comes out after Westbrook and stands at the end of the line.

Ferguson finishes the moves of every starter, including arguably the best exchange with Paul George.

Running in place.

Shoulder bumps.

Something called the "Blueface - Thotiana" the two pulled from YouTube.

(Note: Don’t YouTube it at work or with your kids in the room).

"The original dance is called the ‘Bop,’" Ferguson said with a big smile. "We saw everybody doing it, so we were just having fun with it one time after a game or whatever and just added it to our handshake.

"It’s not as hard to keep track of them. It’s actually pretty easy. But there’s a lot of handshakes around here."

Ferguson then started thinking of his favorites. The 20-year-old likes movement. He listed his sequences with George and Grant as two of his favorites, then stopped himself.

"Actually, me and Kev (Kevin Hyde) the strength coach, we’ve got some good ones," Ferguson said. "We’ve got handshakes with everyone — the strength coaches to the security to everyone."

That’s right. This isn’t exclusive to players. Ferguson’s personal favorite is a Thankgiving-inspired handshake called the "Turkey," he does with trainer Mike Davis.

No matter the season, the Thunder enters pregame with a prerogative. It’s going to have fun not even a retirement can stop.

"When everybody’s coming out doing their handshakes and different styles, even watching other people’s handshakes, it’s dope," Ferguson said. "It gets you excited for the game, excited for the moment.

"I’m telling you it gets crazy around here."

Maddie Lee contributed to this story.

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NBA ALL-STAR GAME

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Adams and Co. is renovating three of its Manhattan buildings, hoping the big updates will bring the buildings into the future. “We’re attempting to turn Class B into Class A,” said David Levy, principal of Adams and Co.

“Now that the market is where it is and tenants are where they are, it warrants a bigger lobby, destination dispatch, bigger and nicer bathrooms.”

The buildings are located in three different neighborhoods — Bryant Park, the Flatiron District, and the Garment District.

At 4 Bryant Park, previously named 1071 Avenue of the Americas, Rosen Johnson Architects removed the 1958 reclad of the building’s curtain wall and added a custom wall of glass, metal and limestone. The new materials were woven through the original stone cornices and brick. New energy-efficient lighting was also installed inside and outside of the building.

In Flatiron, 53 West 23rd Street, built in 1915, is undergoing a major lobby transformation. An under-used stairwell will be removed in order to expand the lobby, and a retail window will be reclaimed to further expand the space. The firm is also restoring segments of the original terracotta entrance and ornate details. That renovation is scheduled to be complete in the second quarter of 2016.

And in the Garment District, at 463 Seventh Avenue, the renovations are nearly complete. A new lobby system and security were added, original pink marble floors were restored, and travertine walls were added to the space.

The firm also just signed a new tenant to 463 Seventh Avenue – In Mocean, a swimwear apparel company, which took 27,000 s/f.

“Our portfolio is such that we are able to do them individually, it’s just a question of manpower,” said Levy of the building updates. Renovations started at 463 Seventh Avenue a year and a half ago, followed by 4 Bryant Park, and then lastly 53 West 23rd Street, where renovations began in October.

However, unlike many building owners and landlords in the city, Levy isn’t doubling down on TAMI tenants.

“We’re looking for good quality tenants — whether they’re tech or manufacturing — but we’re not looking for TAMI tenants, if they come, it’s fine,” said Levy. “TAMI is a buzz acronym. For us, credit is king.”

Adams and Co. owns several other buildings in Manhattan, most of which are located in the Garment District, as well as Chelsea, Murray Hill, Kips Bay, and Little Italy. Levy said plans to renovate the company’s other Garment District buildings are “in the pipeline.”

“The key is that the market has gotten to the point that warrants updates like these, and we’re spending money and being thoughtful in how we’re doing it,” said Levy.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A new book published by a Mississippi State faculty member reflects on a yet untold perspective of the Civil Rights Era in the Magnolia State.

MSU Professor James H. “Jim” Adams and co-author Natalie G. Adams, a University of Alabama professor, wrote their look at school desegregation in the state with the intention that it will lead to fresh discussion about Mississippi’s public-school system.

“We come from a long line of public school teachers who instilled in us an unwavering commitment to public schools. This book is an extension of their dedication,” Jim Adams said. “We are grateful for their influence and hope the book is a tribute to each of their legacies.”

Seven years of archival research and more than 100 oral history interviews led to “Just Trying to Have School: The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi,” published in 2018 by University Press of Mississippi. The book features oral histories of more than 100 parents, students, community leaders, school board members, principals and superintendents who worked during desegregation of Mississippi’s schools.

A professor in MSU’s Department of Instructional Systems and Workforce Development, Jim Adams was a ninth-grader at DeKalb High School during the first year of school desegregation in Kemper County. Natalie, a professor of social and cultural studies in education at UA, was a third-grader in 1970 when her elementary school in rural north Louisiana was desegregated. Their parents were white educators who made the decision to leave their children in public schools at a time when many of their friends were fleeing to newly opened private academies.

Jim Adams said that while several teachers and students have written personal memoirs about their experiences in a particular locale during this time period, no other book has been written combining the voices of educators, parents and students statewide.

Sid Salter, a longtime Mississippi journalist who now serves as MSU’s chief communications officer and director of public affairs, said the book examines and preserves “the history of one of the most important and impactful events of the previous century in Mississippi and the Deep South.”

In reviewing the book, Salter writes, “Massive school desegregation was a national political issue, but in Mississippi it was intensely personal and produced far-reaching changes in the state’s communities. The unsung heroes of this dramatic social and educational transformation were the teachers and administrators?both black and white?in Mississippi’s public school districts. The Adamses have lovingly and faithfully captured this poignant narrative in this exemplary book.”

Jim Adams teaches MSU courses such as Diversity in Work and Educational Environments and History and Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education with research interests in post-secondary educational programs for marginalized students, diversity issues in the work place, work in a post-industrial society, GED programs in high school settings, multicultural education in higher education, and leadership issues in higher education settings. He has published articles in the Journal of Career and Technical Education, International Journal of Instructional Media, Journal of Interactive Learning Research, and Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies.

Natalie Adams also serves as director of the New College interdisciplinary liberal arts program at UA. She is co-author of “Cheerleader! An American Icon” and co-editor of “Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between.”

Copies of “Just Trying to Have School” are available from the University Press of Mississippi at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2186 or from other online booksellers.

MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.

In addition to starring in David O. Russell’s 2013 movie “American Hustle,” Christian Bale says he served as a “mediator” between the director and co-star Amy Adams.

Bale, 48, told GQ in a cover story published Wednesday that reports claiming he intervened on Adams’ behalf during production were true.

“I did what I felt was appropriate, in very Irv style,” he explained, referencing his character in the dramatization of the FBI’s Abscam sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

“If I can have some sense of understanding of where it’s coming from, then I do tend to attempt to be a mediator,” he went on. “That’s just in my nature, to try to say, ‘Hey, come on, let’s go and sit down and figure that out. There’s gotta be a way of making this all work.'”

An email emerged during the 2014 Sony Pictures hack between journalist Jonathan Alter and his brother-in-law, then-Sony CEO Michael Lynton, in which the former claimed Russell, 64, “so abused” Adams on the film’s set.

“His abuse and lunatic behaviour are extreme even by Hollywood standards,” Alter wrote to Lynton.

Adams, 48, addressed the claim in 2016, describing Russell’s work ethic as “mania.” In an interview with British GQ, the actress recalled the director “yelling” at her and making her cry almost daily.

“He was hard on me, that’s for sure. It was a lot,” she said at the time. “I was really just devastated on set.”

Despite what went on behind the scenes, Bale said he doesn’t look back on the project with tainted eyes.

“You’re dealing with two such incredible talents there,” he told GQ for the magazine’s November cover story.

“Look, if I feel like we got anywhere close — and you only ever get somewhere close to achieving; our imagination is too incredible to ever entirely achieve it — but if you get anywhere close to it, and when you’re working with people of the crazy creative talent of Amy or of David, there are gonna be upsets. But they are f–king phenomenal.”

He added, “Also, you got to remember, it was the nature of the characters as well. Right? Those characters were not people who back down from anything, right?”