They paid the cost of replacement homes and $1 a square foot for each resident's land.
"I didn't want to pay $50 a square foot" for offices, he said.
According to their figures, the network could be expected to pay rent of more than $75 a square foot.
"People now are paying 6 to 38 cents a square foot."
Mark Fabrics paid $90 a square foot, compared with the average price of $85 for similar space downtown.40.
"They're doing so well, it's like they are paying me $40 a foot," he said.
But they don't have to pay $40 a square foot in Manhattan for the guy who runs the computer.
He would have ended up paying $40 a foot for $20-a-foot land.
They pay about $12 a square foot for space.
But the groups don't have enough money, and the board wants them to pay rent of $15 a square foot.