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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 09:30 AM
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Taxpayers Help Goldman Reach Height of Profit in New Skyscraper
Source: Bloomberg

Taxpayers Help Goldman Reach Height of Profit in New Skyscraper

By Christine Harper

Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- In the first six months of 2010, about 6,000 employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will take a break from their spreadsheets and move across the southern tip of Manhattan to a new 43-story, steel-and-glass skyscraper.

The building was a bargain -- and not just because the final cost is expected to be $200 million less than the $2.3 billion price the company had estimated when construction began in November 2005. Goldman Sachs also benefited from the government’s determination to avoid losing jobs in lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Building a new headquarters cater-cornered to where the World Trade Center once stood qualified the firm to sell $1 billion of tax-free Liberty Bonds and get about $49 million of job-grant funds, tax exemptions and energy discounts. Henry Paulson, then Goldman Sachs’s chief executive officer, threatened to abandon the project after delays in addressing his concerns about safety. To keep the plan on track, state and city officials raised the bond ceiling to $1.65 billion and added $66 million in benefits. The interest expense on the financing is about $175 million less over 30 years than if the company had issued corporate debt at the time, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

“It was absolutely imperative that Goldman Sachs keep its world headquarters downtown,” says John Cahill, who took part in the negotiations as chief of staff to then-Governor George Pataki and now works at New York law firm Chadbourne & Parke LLP. “They had the financial resources to move anywhere.”

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601208&sid=aaLwI2SKYQJg
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 09:40 AM
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1. “They had the financial resources to move anywhere.”
they can start by moving under 30,000 feet of water...
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 09:44 AM
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2. built on the backs of the US taxpayer
:argh: :grr:
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 10:03 AM
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3. Correction: We did not help them. They stole our money.
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-22-09 10:20 AM
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4. I'll take my BONUS in CASH please Mr. GS!
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