Bonus-bloated AIG is trying to scrape up another $100 million or so bucks by selling its 66-story Art Deco headquarters downtown, The Post has learned.
One of the potential buyers is the union that represents doormen and porters at office and apartment buildings, sources said.
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AIG hired CB Richard Ellis, whose brokers, Darcy Stacom and Bill Shanahan, sent out an e-mail to prospective buyers Monday boasting of the “breathtaking views” from the site, 70 Pine St.
But AIG probably will get only a fraction for the 77-year-old building that it would have gotten when the real-estate market was booming.
Industry sources said 70 Pine could have fetched around $320 million then. Now AIG will be lucky to pocket $100 million.
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“Institutional investors say they would pay only around $50 million and others would be hard-pressed to pay $100 million,” one investment adviser said.
Sources close to AIG said the firm is also trying to sell 72 Wall St., which is connected to 70 Pine by a bridge.
So far, at least one suitor – Local 32B-32J of the International Service Employees Union – has shown interest in keeping 70 Pine as an office tower, sources said.
There was no immediate comment from AIG or the union.