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Robert De Niro’s next role: landlord. Only this part’s for real. The actor has acquired the 100-year-old, eight-story Martinson Coffee Building in NYC’s TriBeCa area (the triangle below Canal Street). He’s converting it into office space specifically for film companies and film makers, with a grand opening planned for July.

De Niro’s own company is already set to occupy two floors and Miramax Films a third. Also being wooed is film maker Martin Scorsese, a long-time De Niro friend and colleague. Three floors will be devoted to pre- and postproduction suites for full- and part-time tenants, with a restaurant, the TriBeCa Cafe, on the ground floor.

A spokeswoman told us the complex is being designed “as a place where people in the film and television industry can come and feel a sense of community.”