Monday, June 14, 2010

Who is Paul Roiff?

The mystery of the house atop the Back Bay building is already [mostly] solved!  My brother did some pretty seriously sleuthing today to find me some answers.  219 Columbus Ave (aka the Albert A. Pope Building that has the delicious Mistral Restaurant on the ground level) is a project of real estate developer and Columbus Hospitality Group partner Paul Roiff.  We first thought Seth Greenberg (also a partner) might have been the owner, but after some further research, Paul Roiff seems to be the owner of the elusive #800 condominium on the roof.  I am told there are four 7th floor units (which all seem to be the penthouse level?), each with a private deck and what-do-you-know, but unit #703 seems to be for sale for a cool $2.2 million.  The profile for it says there's a private and public deck - so perhaps it is split into 4 units with #800 being the best?  Here are pictures of unit #703:

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So, the trail ends at Paul Roiff.  And I enjoyed the journey.  I think urban planning and architecture design is so interesting and I would love to sit and have a glass of wine with Mr. Roiff to see how the world occurs to him.  I'm sure he is quite fascinating.  The only reason I said this mystery was "mostly" solved was because I just now need to figure out how to get inside to check it out for myself... I will report back if I ever meet any of the four condominium owners!

*Images courtesy of zillow.com

7 comments:

  1. Rosenberg siblings to the rescue! In some further investigation of Mr. Roiff, I decided I would like an invite to all of his homes.

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  2. Agreed. When shall we crash his home in Florida?

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  3. If you end up in that condo without me there will be SERIOUS hell to pay, missy!

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  4. TURNS OUT A CO-WORKER IS FRIENDS WITH HIS KIDS!!! We are so getting in!

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  5. Lauren, we MUST pull this off. Encourage coworker for said kids to throw a party and invite US!

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  6. How about we just pool our funds and BUY the $2.2m home? We can sleep 8 to a bedroom for that roofdeck, right???

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  7. I used to know him personally ....and to be quite honest hes rude, arrogant, handsome and extremely shallow and if I said all this to his face today he would reply with a cool "thank you" and a grin LOL he really doesnt give a **** What anybody thinks and he an afford to being hes one of the most successful real estate developers in the country... He's one of my favorite people on this earth lol And the manalapan fla house is TDF

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