Real Estate Wire: Forest City Selling Their Stake in Barclays Center; Re-zoning for One Vanderbilt Certified

• Forest City Enterprises is putting its 55% stake in Barclays up for sale. [Brooklyn Eagle]
• The Department of City Planning certified a five-block rezoning application today for a stretch of Vanderbilt Avenue near Grand Central Terminal that includes SL Green’s One Vanderbilt tower. [CO]
• Mayor Bill de Blasio has rejected JPMorgan Chase’s request for $1B in tax incentives to keep its headquarters in New York. However, he hasn’t ruled out offering some tax breaks. [Crain’s]
• Thor Equities has purchased two Williamsburg properties for approximately $17.8 million and is planning to turn the site into a 10,000-square-foot retail development. [CO]

Images: Barclay’s (left); One Vanderbilt (right)