Carmel Kashani, executive vice president for KickStart, tellsGlobeSt.com, "This is the first building of its kind in New York orthe world."

The asset is located at 535 W. 34th St. and has been dubbed,"KickStart @ 34th." The property was originally Bell Atlantic's,but was acquired by Monian prior to forming KickStart. It willhouse 59 fully-furnished suites; a rooftop terrace; a courtyardgarden; a concierge desk; a mail, copy and fax center; on-sitesecurity and system key-tag entry; facilities for training,seminars and video conferencing; catering; and a café. Thesix-story, freestanding building totals 45,000 sf of officespace.

What makes the building so distinctive, according to Kashani, isthat each suite has its own bandwidth; can have its own web siteand e-mail hosted by KickStart, for a small additional fee; its ownhigh-speed DSL connection to the Internet; and its own set ofmultiple phone lines. All tenants need to do is hook theirequipment access at any speed Internet connection, he says. This,he explains, is "the next level of the Plug-N-Go concept." Toenable this, the building's infrastructure was redeveloped.