Millennium Partners, which would build 450 apartments, a ballroom and two luxury hotels on the site, has offered one of the strongest guarantees.
The new site is at the base of a 56-story condominium tower recently built by Millennium Partners.
He also talked about buying Millennium Partners to act as his developer.
Millennium Partners is bidding on that one, too.
It was not known exactly how much Millennium Partners offered for the site.
Then there was the trader at Millennium Partners, a hedge fund.
And a hotel, which Millennium Partners has proposed, would use more full-time workers than an exhibition hall, he conceded.
Millennium Partners will have the right to manage the property for 20 years.
The developers of that project, Millennium Partners, are also planning new buildings on two nearby blocks.
Millennium Partners admitted they had no intentions of trying to duplicate the Ritz.