The auction was over as soon as it started with Platinum Management Company, a group from New York, winning the auction with a bid of $1,475,000 dollars. After the auction the person who won was very hesitant to talk to the media. He did not want to give his name or contact information. He wouldn’t answer questions about his company or their plans for the building.

Needless to say neighborhood activists like Louise DeSpain and Rita Regan were not happy about such an unknown factor winning the bid for the Jewish Center. I will upload my video later.

Updated: Someone left this comment. Thanks, whoever you are, for the research:

According to the GSA, the winning bid was from Mr. Moshe M. Florans. A Google search pulls up a “permit statistical report” from 2006 on the city of New York website, listing his address as 114 Avenue T in Brooklyn – and a Google search on that address shows that it’s listed as the address for a Mr. Abe Betesh, according to a 2006 “sign statistical report”, also on the city of NY website. Mr. Betesh appears to be the owner of Abeco Management Corporation.

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