Our challenge with China, he says, isn't about competition. "Our biggest problem with them is getting them to come up to the level of responsibility that their networks and their influence around the world actually demands from them."
The developer, Edward Minskoff, said he isn't worried about filling it, as there is little competition from other new office space and there are plenty of potential tenants within the larger 400-million-square-foot-plus New York office market.