The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Avison Young
May 1, 2019
A 12-building portfolio of 261 multi-family-units and two retail units is being exclusively marketed by Avison Young’s Tri-State Investment Sales Group on NYC’s Upper East Side. The asking price for the ownership shares in the portfolio is $100 million. The AY team marketing the building for owner Capmar Realty includes James Nelson, David Shalom, Eric Karmitz, Carter Lovejoy, Hannah Bryon-Staples and Bradley Rothschild.
RFR Realty
April 30, 2019
By Lois Weiss
Apparel and home goods company Tommy Hilfiger expanded its square-footage at RFR Realty’s 285 Madison Avenue, taking the remaining 14,054-SF on the 10th floor. Tommy Hilfiger’s occupancy of the building covers the second, third and 6-12th floors. A brokerage team at JLL and AJ Camhi of RFR represented the landlord in the deal; JLL also represented Tommy Hilfiger. Quantitative Brokers also signed a 7,070-SF lease on the 17th floor at 285 Madison, a property RFR acquired in 2012 and renovated in a $65 million capital improvement project.
Jonathan Rose Companies
April 30, 2019
By Afdhel Aziz
Jonathan F.P. Rose’s mission is to develop communities that enhance opportunities for all. He has positively impacted everything from affordable/mixed-income housing, cultural, health and educational infrastructure to green spaces, jobs, and healthy food. Rose, president and founder of Jonathan Rose Companies and author of The Well-Tempered City speaks with Afdhel Aziz / Forbes about his ideas on how cities can be redesigned to tackle social and environmental problems in order to help humanity thrive.
Thornton Tomasetti, Marx Realty, View Dynamic Glass
April 28, 2019
By Miriam Hall
A series of new laws in New York City designed to limit carbon emissions and increase performance is sparking conversation about what it will mean for new and existing structures. New York real estate and AEC experts spoke with Bisnow about the new regulations, the impact on glass and steel buildings, and the benefits of climate change policies, including Thornton Tomasetti Project Director Casey Cullen-Woods, Craig Deitelzweig, CEO of Marx Realty and View Dynamic Glass CEO Rao Mulpuri.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
April 26, 2019
Andrew Levine joined Fried Frank in New York as senior counsel in the firm’s real estate department. He comes from Natixis, where he was a managing director. Fried Frank also hired several new attorneys in New York: Melissa Meyrowitz as special counsel and associates Anne Catherine Podolsky and Daniela Alverado.
April 23, 2019
The Editors
The Power 100 is Commercial Observer‘s annual ranking of the top 100 players in New York real estate. Among them are Tommy Craig, senior managing director at Hines (#30), Nicholas Bienstock and Christopher Schlank, co-founders and managing partners at Savanna (#44), Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs, co-founders and principals of RFR Realty (#49), Earle Altman, Peter Burack, Gregg Schenker and Steven Hornstock of ABS Partners Real Estate (#72), Josh Zegen, Brian Shatz and Adam Tantleff of Madison Realty Capital (#76), Arthur Mirante, Mitti Liebersohn and James Nelson of Avison Young (#80), and Jon Mechanic and Melanie Meyers of Fried Frank (#89).
ABS Partners Real Estate
April 22, 2019
The Browning School, a k-12 boys’ preparatory school, has signed a 4,750-SF full-floor lease for its executive and administrative offices at 140 E. 57th Street a.k.a the Hammacher Schlemmer building. ABS Partners Real Estate and Benenson Investment Company acquired the 64,000-SF property in Fall 2016 and completed an extensive capital improvement program. John Brod and Robert Finkelstein of ABS Partners Real Estate represented ABS in-house while John Nugent and Alexander Golod of CBRE arranged on behalf of the school.
Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates
April 16, 2019
Grant Dolgin, a vice president at Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates is one of New York Real Estate Journal‘s Ones to Watch. With nearly 15 years of experience as an owner/manager/broker of industrial properties in Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Westchester and beyond, Dolgin is part of the fourth generation of Dolgins leading the family business.
Marx Realty
April 16, 2019
By Lois Weiss
Foot Locker is set to open a 25,000-SF “Power Store” at Marx Realty’s 605 West 181st Street. While the store will sell its traditional sneakers, there will also be a barbershop, gaming zone, DJ and event space, areas for customers to design their own shoes and get them cleaned. Foot Locker’s current space at 621 West 181st Street will close and relocate to this new, expanded space. Marx was represented in-house by Henry Henderson and Foot Locker was represented by Evan Schuckman of Ripco.