The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Client
The Praedium Group
Date
March 15, 2019
The Praedium Group Sells TX Community
By Jeffrey Steele
summary
The Praedium Group has sold Legends at Chase Oaks in Plano, TX, an apartment community it acquired five years ago. The 346-unit rental complex at 701 Legacy Drive has 32 two-story buildings with a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom homes. Praedium completed a comprehensive capital improvement program during the last five years, encompassing both common areas and unit interiors.
Client
Avison Young
Date
March 12, 2019
Avison Team Markets Rebranded Plaza 52 for Lease
summary
Avison Young has been tapped to lease the rebranded Plaza 52, a 54,437-square-foot boutique office building at 133 W. 52nd St. between Sixth and Seventh. The firm’s Roshan Shah and Keith Caggiano will market, reposition and lease the property on behalf of the owner, Beekman Real Estate Investment Management. The Avison Young team has arranged a lease with design firm Badgley Mischka on the property’s fifth floor. The property also has a 5,000-square-foot ground floor retail space under separate ownership, which has been leased to International hospitality company Bulldozer Group.
Client
CBRE
Date
March 7th, 2019
CBRE CEO Says Hudson Yards Is Very Unusual and Will Be a Success
By Caroline Hyde and Scarlet Fu
summary
Client
Ted Moudis Associates
Date
March 6, 2019
Why Measuring The Human Condition Results In Better Space Design
By Cristina Herrera
summary
Cristina Herrera, manager of workplace strategy at Ted Moudis Associates, a leading architectural and interior design firm, writes a thought leadership piece for Work Design Magazine on how to create better workplace design solutions and measure the productivity of the workplace and its people.
Client
The Marketing Directors
Date
Winter 2019
Justified in Jersey City
By Meenal Vamburkar
summary
An article on Jersey City in The Real Deal’s Tri-State market report cites data from The Marketing Directors. It talks about the new wave of rentals and condos expected in Jersey City this year, and concerns about absorption rates, pricing, and transportation crowding. Jackie Urgo, president of The Marketing Directors, a new development advisory and sales/leasing team, adds that the firm has received lots of interest from developers looking for valuations and what to build in the city across the river from Manhattan.
Client
Thornton Tomasetti
Date
February 2019
Recladding From The Past
By Lee Fink, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, senior project architect
summary
While façade design has come a long way over the years, energy performance has not always followed. Benchmarking data shows that some modern office buildings are using just as much energy as those constructed 100 years ago. Senior Project Architect Lee Fink of Thornton Tomasetti‘s Renewal practice looks at some of the ways that the benefits of past design can be combined with modern technologies in this article in Facility Executive magazine.
Client
Avison Young
Date
February 26, 2019
Beekman Estate Picks Up Three Lenox Hill Residential Buildings for $36M
By Nicholas Rizzi
summary
Beekman Estate, the real estate company founded by the descendants of one of Manhattan’s oldest families, closed on the purchase of three Lenox Hill apartment buildings — 344, 346 and 348 East 62nd Street — for $35.5 million from William Koch and Shimmie Horn. Avison Young’s James Nelson, Brandon Polakoff and Bradley Rothschild represented the sellers in the transaction.
Client
Avison Young
Date
February 26, 2019
UES church sells York Ave home to Weill Cornell for $68M
By Rich Bockmann
summary
An Avison Young team of James Nelson, Charles Kingsley, Neil Helman and Toku Saito represented the Church of the Epiphany in the sale of its York Avenue property and purchase at 315 East 74th Street, in a pair of deals totaling more than $90 million. The Church of the Epiphany sold its Norman Gothic-style building at 1393 York Avenue to Weill Cornell Medical College, which will build new housing for medical students on the site. The 74th Street location was purchased from the Jan Hus Presbyterian Church for $22.5 million; Avison Young’s Susan Kahaner and Jennifer Ogden are working with the former owner to find a replacement property.
Client
Savitt Partners
Date
February 22, 2019
Crunch Gym Stays Put in Garment District
By Rebecca Baird-Remba
summary
The Savitt Partners team of Brian Neugeboren and Nicole Goetz represented owner B. Bros. Broadway Realty in a 27,450 SF lease renewal across four levels of 1385 Broadway in NYC’s Garment District. Crunch Fitness recommitted to its space on the entire second floor, and portions of the building’s mezzanine, ground, and lower floors. Karen Gold of Crunch represented the fitness company. Savitt recently arranged other ground-floor retail leases at 1385 Broadway, including deals for CAVA, By Chloe and Taco Dumbo.