Fortress Sues to Foreclose on Moskovits’ Bushwick Lodge Internet site

Toby Moskovits (Google Maps, Supreme Court of the Condition of New York)

Eleven months immediately after it submitted for bankruptcy, alterations are afoot at an inactive Bushwick resort development web site owned by Toby Moskovits’ Heritage Equity Companions.

Fortress Expense Group has filed to foreclose on the property at 232 Seigel Street, in conjunction with a courtroom get permitting Heritage to fork out off the mezzanine debt, PincusCo documented.

“The COVID-19 Unexpected emergency Secure Our Compact Corporations Act of 2021 is not applicable to this issue,” Fortress notes in its grievance, “since the subject residence is vacant and unimproved, and was meant to be utilised solely as an about 155 home lodge with amenities, local community room and parking.”

The $5.25 million senior mortgage is assured by Moskovits, Michael Lichtenstein and Moshe Dov Schweid. In accordance to the criticism, the total sum owed now comes out to $8.2 million with fascination and penalties.

The Seigel Avenue assets is section of Heritage’s Bushwick Generator advancement, which also features inventive and tech workplaces at 215 Moore Avenue. The complicated has been the issue of several legal disputes involving Moskovits’ agency and loan providers, whom Moskovits accuses of predatory lending methods.

Very last summer season, a judge permitted the appointment of a receiver for the Moore Road home. The Seigel Road property filed for Chapter 11 individual bankruptcy safety a month afterwards following a potential purchaser failed to shut owing to the pandemic, in accordance to PincusCo. Somewhere else in Brooklyn, Moskovits’ Williamsburg Lodge filed for bankruptcy in February.

[PincusCo] — Kevin Sunshine