Sedesco, Inc.
Lobbying client
Sedesco is a Manhattan real estate development firm led by Demir Sabanci that has spent over a decade assembling a Billionaires' Row site on West 57th Street, buying properties there in 2012, 2018 and 2023 for a planned supertall tower designed by Rem Koolhaas rising roughly 1,100 feet with residential and hotel space. It registered citywide with the City Council, filing 19 lobbying disclosures since 2024 and paying $317,500 in compensation through Brown & Weinraub Advisors, James F. Capalino & Associates and Urban Strategies, with filings citing construction of a new building at 411 West 57th Street and broader commercial development plans for its midtown Manhattan sites.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 21
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $347,500
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Brown & Weinraub Advisors, LLC Lobbyist firm
- James F. Capalino & Associates, Inc. Lobbyist firm
- Urban Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - Government relations in connection with possible commercial development of various midtown Manhattan sites owned by the client.
- Determination regarding real property - CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDING AT 411 WEST 57TH STREET
- Determination regarding real property - CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BUILDING AT 411 WEST 57TH STREET IN MANHATTAN
- Determination regarding real property - Government relations in connection with possible commercial development of various midtown Manhattan sites owned by the client. ; Determination regarding real…
- Determination regarding real property - NEW BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN MANHATTAN