[Excerpt] Background: On July 1, 1998, Jeff O’Ryan, the partner in charge of marketing and leasing for Consolidated Hunter Auctioneers was holding an auction for 118 Fort Road, a 0.6S acre Enterprises, Inc. (“Consolidated”), was reviewing the documents to be submitted for the next day’s bid. Hunter Auctioneers was holding an auction for 118 Fort Road, a 0.6S acre land parcel in the heart of College Center, a small, mixed residential-retail area adjacent to Curtin University (“Curtin”) in Hunter, New York.