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Mingtiandi Username The Sandcrawler is part of a tech cluster in One North One of the world’s biggest private equity firms is pushing its real estate bets into the fantasy world, as recently filed documents show that Blackstone is in the process of buying a Singapore building based on George Lucas’ Star Wars movies. The Manhattan based firm is offering to pay S$175.8 million ($133 million) to purchase 1 Fusionopolis Link, better known as the Sandcrawler Building, from a unit of Lucasfilm, according to sources familiar with the deal, which was first reported by Bloomberg. The eight-storey office block is located close to the University of Singapore in the One North tech park, and is designed to look like the Sandcrawler, a tank-treaded fortress where Luke Skywalker purchased R2D2 in the original Star Wars film.

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