The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Client
RFR Realty
Date
September 21, 2020
Aby Rosen, Michael Fuchs back new retail brokerage
By Lois Weiss
summary
Two longtime retail brokers – Cushman & Wakefield brokers Brandon Singer and Michael Cody – have launched a new firm, Retail by MONA. The firm’s investors include Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs of RFR Holding. MONA stands for “making of a new age” — and was inspired by the Renaissance and Mona Lisa.
Client
Jonathan Rose Companies
Date
September 21, 2020
Here’s a simple way to increase voter registration: Have landlords give new renters the forms
By Kristin Toussaint
summary
What if, when moving into a new apartment, you were handed a voter registration form to update, along with all of the other paperwork? Jonathan Rose Companies is one of many landlords and housing providers that is in a unique position to address the country’s voting disparity. Rose says that the company has been asking all new renters if they have been registered to vote.
Client
Avison Young
Date
September 2020
A nationwide sublease surge
By Akiko Matsuda
summary
Marisha Clinton, senior director of research for Avison Young’s tristate office, is quoted in a story in The Real Deal on Manhattan office subleasing.
Client
Kimmerle Group
Date
September 16, 2020
Dobco retains Kimmerle Newman for former Toys R Us HQ repositioning
By Linda Lindner
summary
Kimmerle Group completed a major repositioning of a 191-acre site for Dobco at One Geoffrey Way, anchored by a 603,000-SF, three-building complex that served as the Toys R Us headquarters offices.
Client
Avison Young
Date
September 16, 2020
Avison Young named leasing agent at Metropark office building
By Joshua Burd
summary
Avison Young has been tapped by Liberty Properties LLC, an operating division of Opal Holdings, as the leasing agent for a nine-story office building at 194 Wood Avenue South in Woodbridge, NJ. Avison Young Principal and Managing Director Jeff Heller, Principal Bill McCaffrey and Associate Evan Bernard will lead the marketing team for the 452,133-square-foot property, which is 95 percent leased,
Client
Simone Development Companies
Date
September 15, 2020
Simone Reaches 100% Occupancy at Bronx Offices
summary
Simone Development Companies secured two long-term leases totaling 5,592 square feet of office and medical space at 2510 Westchester Avenue, Simone’s three-story medical and office building in the Bronx, bringing the property to 100% long-term occupancy. Leases include Unlimited Care Nursing Services, a home care, facility care and institutional staffing provider, and the United Probation Officers Association.
Client
The RADCO Companies
Date
September 11, 2020
The RADCO Cos. Sells Seven Multifamily Communities in Four Deals
summary
The RADCO Companies has sold seven multifamily communities across Georgia and North Carolina with 1,941 rental homes in four separate deals, which all closed in one day, totaling more than $315 million. With these closings, the opportunistic real estate investor has acquired, improved, and sold 59 multifamily assets during the current real estate cycle totaling nearly $1.8 billion.
Client
Avison Young
Date
September 11, 2020
Lamar Advertising Co. renews 2 leases for warehouse, offices in New York City
summary
Lamar Advertising Co., one of the country’s largest outdoor advertising firms, has signed a lease for a 9,000-square-foot full-building at 53-17 Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City, Queens, a warehouse, storage and office facility. It also signed a 2,440-square-foot lease renewal on the 8th floor of the Chanin Building at 122 E. 42nd St. in Midtown for a sales office. Arthur Mirante II and Jean-Philippe “JP” Krahmer of Avison Young represented Lamar in the deals.
Client
Thornton Tomasetti
Date
September 9, 2020
Tech Companies ShapeDiver and Thornton Tomasetti’s Swarm Merge to Become the Largest Cloud-Based SaaS Platform for Accessing and Sharing Parametric Designs
summary
Technology companies ShapeDiver and Swarm, leaders in the development of cloud-based parametric computation and collaboration, announced plans to merge. Together, ShapeDiver and Swarm will offer the largest and most powerful cloud-native, Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for customizing workflows and accelerating the design and manufacturing of diverse products and buildings in the world.