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The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.

Client

Madison Realty Capital

Date

September 24, 2019

New York investor funds Turtle Creek property buy in Dallas

By Steve Brown

summary

Madison Realty Capital, a New York-based investor, provided a $32.5 million loan to JMJ Development to finance the purchase of a 25-story residential and hotel tower at 2999 Turtle Creek Boulevard in Dallas, TX. The property is now occupied by a two-story office building that was built in 2004 to house the offices of the late Dallas real estate developer John Eulich.

Client

Madison Realty Capital

Date

September 23, 2019

Madison Realty Capital Closes $76M for Brooklyn Mixed-Use Property “Familiarity with t

By Mariah Brown

summary

Madison Realty Capital has closed on a $76 million financing package for 85 Flatbush Ave., a 12-story, 177,966-square-foot mixed-use property in Downtown Brooklyn. Financing includes an MRC senior loan and Bluestone Group mezzanine financing. The asset was built in 2016 and features the 176-room Tillary Hotel, ballroom, and an attached 64-unit luxury multifamily building with a separate parking garage.
Client

Populous

Date

September 23, 2019

Competitive Gaming Is Moving Offline (Into an Arena Near You)

By Chava Gourarie

summary

Commercial Observer delves into the rise of esports and the facilities that are housing these live events and training gamers around the country. Brian Mirakian, a principal and director of brand activation at Populous, talks about the firm’s design of the first purpose-built arena in the Western Hemisphere, Fusion Arena in Philadelphia.

Date

September 21, 2019

Ted Moudis Associates Releases Project X: A Chicago Story

summary

Ted Moudis Associates, a leading architectural and interior design firm, has released Project X: A Chicago Story, which examines changes in Chicago workplace design over the past ten years and focuses on two main ideas – how the way we work has changed the way space is designed, and how those changes have affected construction and furniture costs. The report’s key finding was that the preconceived office renovation cost of $100/sf is no longer realistic, rather, $130/sf is the new target cost, caused by the increase in headcount capacity and code requirements, among other factors.

Client

Ted Moudis Associates

Date

September 18, 2019

A Gen Z-Er’s Take On Preparing Your Workplace For The Next Generation

by Gabrielle Mastropolo and Kate Wieczorek

summary

In Work Design Magazine, Gabrielle Mastropolo, a summer intern at Ted Moudis Associates and “Gen Z-er,” shares her unique insights about what her generation expects from their employers (and workspaces) and what their employers should expect from them. Kate Wieczorek collaborated with Mastropolo as TMA’s manager of workplace strategy.

Date

September 18, 2019

Madison Realty Capital Lends $24M on Soho Mixed-Use Property

By Cathy Cunningham

summary

Madison Realty Capital has provided a $23.7 million loan to refinance 54 Thompson Street, a seven-story mixed-use building in NYC’s Soho neighborhood. The loan will take out existing debt and be used to finance capital improvements and leasing costs at the 28,164-SF property, which is fully leased by tenants such as Breather, Cheshire Films, Thompson Studios and Pera, a ground-floor restaurant.

Client

Waterton

Date

September 18, 2019

Waterton hires new CFO

summary

Tara Marszewski joins Waterton as its new CFO, responsible for the direct oversight of finance, corporate, residential and hospitality accounting, as well as tax, treasury and benefits and compensation functions at the firm. Marszewski brings almost 20 years of experience and a demonstrated track record of driving growth and bottom-line results for complex real estate companies. Prior to joining Waterton, Marszewski was CFO of Brookfield Properties’ retail group.

Client

Thornton Tomasetti

Date

September 13, 2019

An icon deconstructed:The demolition of the Georgia Dome

By Mahesh Raju Bailakanavar

summary

Mahesh Raju Bailakanavar, an associate at Thornton Tomasetti, discusses the tearing down of the Georgia Dome, the home of the Atlanta Falcons for 25 years. The team at Thornton Tomasetti was charged with identifying vulnerabilities and risks while optimizing a plan to mitigate damage to the newly adjacent $1.6 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium as well as other Georgia World Congress Center Authority assets. The firm was also the original structural engineer for the stadium, which took 30 months to design and construct before it opened in September 1992.

Client

Madison Realty Capital

Date

September 2019

Lending trends: Limited competition and positive market fundamentals have supported the construction finance business

By Loretta Clodfelter

summary

In this article looking at the challenges and risks involved with construction financing, Josh Zegen of Madison Realty Capital shares his thoughts on how this type of financing has become a high-touch, customized and commoditized business, and how his firm successfully competes amid a range of foreign and domestic market forces. 

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