The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Client
CrossHarbor Capital Partners
Date
October 1, 2018
CrossHarbor Capital Partners Appoints Richard Flohr as Managing Director for Strategic Debt Fund
summary
Featured in the Chicago Tribune’s People on the Move is CrossHarbor Capital Partners’ appointment of Richard Flohr as Richard Flohr as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for the company’s new CrossHarbor Strategic Debt Fund. Flohr will work out of the Chicago office of the Boston-based investment management firm that invests in core-plus, value-add, and opportunistic commercial real estate transactions throughout the United States. Supporting Richard are three additional new hires, each responsible for sourcing and structuring debt investment opportunities for the fund. They include William Cohen, principal in CrossHarbor’s Chicago office; Robin Ibbetson, VP in the Los Angeles office; and Matthew Klein, VP in Boston.
Client
The Marketing Directors
Date
September 27, 2018
Manhattan Builders’ 5-Year Plan: 33,000 New Rentals and Condos
By Oshrat Carmiel
summary
According to a Manhattan market report from The Marketing Directors, we can expect the market to receive about 33,000 units for sale or rent within the next five years. An article in Bloomberg details the report and what it could mean for the future of the market.
Client
Simone Development Companies
Date
September 26, 2018
Medical Supply and Infrastructure Companies Lease Bronx Warehouse
By Rebecca Baird-Remba
summary
An entire, 41,000-SF warehouse at 1185 Commerce Avenue owned by Simone Development Companies has been fully leased to two new tenants. Landauer Medstar, a provider of medical supplies to healthcare institutions in the Mid-Atlantic signed a 10-year, 27,845 SF lease for its third NYS location, while Aclara, an outfit that offers tech solutions to utility companies, arranged a 13,526-square-foot, five-year lease at the building. These leases are indicative of a still-booming industrial market in the Bronx. Simone Metro Properties‘ James MacDonald and Josh Gopan negotiated the deal in-house for the landlord.
Client
R New York
Date
September 26, 2018
Charles Rutenberg, now R New York, is expanding to Long Island and Brooklyn
By Meenal Vamburkar
summary
The Real Deal talks with R New York President Stefani Berkin about the firm’s new name, plans for expansion to Brooklyn and the Hamptons, and its revolutionary 100% commission model that is disrupting the industry.
Client
CBRE Long Island
Date
September 24, 2018
Executive Profile: Tricia Shay
By David Winzelberg
summary
Long Island Business News real estate reporter David Winzelberg sat down with Tricia Shay, the new managing director at CBRE in Melville. She oversees the firm’s real estate business on Long Island and in the outer boroughs of New York City. Shay talks about her start in the business, the state of commercial real estate on Long Island, and her plans to grow the Long Island office.
Client
GFP Real Estate
Date
September 21, 2018
Gural Family Leases Out 52,000 SF in Garment District Building
By Betsy Kim
summary
Matthew Mandel of GFP Real Estate represented both landlord and tenant in a 40,000 SF, 10-year lease renewal for Mason Tenders District Council Welfare Fund at 520 Eighth Avenue, as well as a new, five-year lease for 12,769 SF for Entertainment Benefits Group. Mason Tenders has almost 15,000 members including construction workers, asbestos and hazardous materials handlers, Catholic high school teachers and recycling and waste handlers. Entertainment Benefits Group is one of the largest privately held travel and entertainment providers in the U.S. 520 Eighth Avenue is a 25-story, 860,000 square-foot office building in New York City’s Garment District.
Client
EW Howell Construction Group
Date
September 21, 2018
LI economy adds 15,200 job in August, compared with year earlier
By Carrie Mason-Draffen
summary
EW Howell President Howard Rowland talks with Newsday about the Long Island job market, particularly in the construction sector. According to data released by the Labor Department, Long Island had 15,200 more jobs in August 2018 than it did a year earlier. Construction led local growth, increasing by 7,200 jobs. EW Howell, which is working on the Blue Point Brewing Co., Stony Brook Children’s Hospital and more, has hired half a dozen new employees recently, for management and supervisory positions.
Client
Simone Development Companies
Date
September 20, 2018
NT and Allergy Associates expands at Simone's Hutch Metro
By Paul Bubny
summary
ENT and Allergy Associates LLP, the nation’s largest full-service otolaryngology and allergy practice and a longtime tenant of Simone Development’s Hutchinson Metro Center, has expanded its space at the Bronx office park. It now occupies 11,935 on two floors at the complex. ENTA recently opened an 8,100-square-foot office at another Simone property, Boyce Thompson Center in Yonkers, NY.
Client
The Marketing Directors
Date
September 20, 2018
Going Their Separate Ways, Eight Stories Apart
By Joyce Cohen
summary
See how the team at The Marketing Directors helped sisters Dale and Hannah LaPlace find their dream homes at Trump Bay Street. Their story is featured in the New York Times Hunt column, which details the twins’ search for separate one-bedrooms in Jersey City after their shared lease for a two-bedroom at nearby M2 expired. They wound up moving into the same building, eight stories apart.