http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/nyregion/a-co-working-space-in-soho-15-years-in-the-making.html 2016-09-20 10:06:44 A Co-Working Space in SoHo, 15 Years in the Making A six-story structure at 433 Broadway houses Cubico, which rents shared office space. Though modern, the building seems at home with its cast-iron neighbors. === With its broad expanses of glass, the gleaming white six-story structure at Though the $10 million project opened this spring, it has been under development for 15 years, longer perhaps than the For more than 35 years, the site of 433 Broadway was occupied by the oddest structure among the cast-iron lofts of SoHo: a one-story, hexagonal, vaguely neo-Colonial bank set in a vest-pocket park. The landscape architect So did In 1973, the site was included in the Omari Properties bought the site in 1996 from the European American Bank, the successor to Franklin. The partners in Omari are Eddie Omri (spelled without an “a”) and his brothers Uri Omari and Manny Omari. Mr. Omri’s son-in-law Edan Abehsera is the chief executive of Omari Properties felled the trees in the park and, for about five years, ran a flea market there. In 2001, the owners hired At first, Omari planned a hotel. Plans were switched to a conventional office building, with a steel frame and a facade made of As the foundations were being excavated in 2011, the abutting building at 48 Howard Street began to move. This has been the home and studio since 1964 of the artist Christo, who is best known in New York for “ “We had to get the Buildings Department to issue a stop-work order in court,” Christo said. A settlement was reached under which Omari installed bracing for Christo’s building, with Christo picking up the cost. Work resumed. This year, Omari began marketing 433 Broadway as Cubico — with glass-enclosed cubicles from 90 square feet ($850 a month) to 350 square feet ($6,000 a month). Mr. Abehsera said that about 120 companies now occupy the building and that 85 percent of the office space was leased. The project has taken up nearly one-third of the career of Mr. Bee smiled — a bit wistfully, a bit ruefully — as he finished telling the tale of 433 Broadway. “What’s 15 years?” he asked. After all, RKTB’s project at