The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Client
101 West 78th Street
Date
October 2, 2017
Upper West Side penthouse overlooking American Museum of Natural History seeks $23.5M
by Rachel Sugar
summary
Curbed NY takes us inside the penthouse at GTIS Partners’ 101 West 78th Street, which features 4BR/4.5BA, a wraparound terrace and rooftop sundeck. The listing is on the market for $23.5 million with Brown Harris Stevens Development Marketing, and interiors are by Stephen Sills Associates.
Client
Pembrook Capital Management
Date
October 2017
A new debt frontier
By Stuart Boesky and William Dowling
summary
Stuart Boesky, CEO of Pembrook Capital Management and William Dowling, an associate with the firm, discuss the emergence, advantages and overall appeal of private direct lending to commercial real estate investors in this bylined feature article in IREI.
Client
Avison Young
Date
October 2, 2017
As Goldman Sachs Shrinks at 77 Water, Law and Engineering Firms Ink Direct Deals
By Rebecca Baird-Remba
summary
Avison Young team of Jonathan J. Larsen and Mitti Liebersohn represented Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith in its new, 100,000-square-foot lease at 77 Water Street, where it previously subleased space from Goldman Sachs. Michael Lenchner of Sage Realty Corporation, the leasing arm of co-owner William Kaufman Organization, represented the owner The law firm currently occupies 75,000 square feet on the 19th through 21st floors on a 2010 sublease from Goldman. Its new 15-year deal includes that space and adds the 18th floor.
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Client
Rutenberg NYC
Date
September 28, 2017
On the Market in New York City
by Stefanos Chen
summary
Rosy Klein of Rutenberg NYC is listing a three-bedroom, two-bath co-op in West Harlem for $1.35m. The home is on the parlor level of a prewar townhouse, and features sleek built-ins and modern finishes. The gorgeous apartment is featured in the New York Times “On the Market” column in the Sunday real estate section.
Client
Rubenstein Partners
Date
September 27, 2017
Rubenstein Partners hires RXR’s head of acquisitions
by Rich Bockmann
summary
Rubenstein Partners announces that Robert Andrews has joined the firm as its director of the New York City office. Rubenstein, which has invested in more than 10 million square feet of office properties since its founding in 2005, made its first New York City acquisition in 2015 when it bought a stake in Toby Moskovits’ 400,000-square-foot speculative office development at 25 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. In New York City, the company will be targeting transitional and value-add properties, either by taking a position in the capital stack or acquiring assets outright, Andrews said.
Client
Simone Development Companies, Rubenstein Partners
Date
September 27, 2017
Williamsburg Developers Line Up for Chance to Build New Amazon Headquarters
By Gwynne Hogan
summary
Developers in North Brooklyn are hoping that Williamsburg’s cultural draw and proximity to Manhattan is enough to entice Amazon to build its headquarters there. Jeremiah Kane of Rubenstein Partners, the developer of 25 Kent Avenue, is one of those developers. Simone Development Companies has also offered the South Campus at its Hutchinson Metro Center in the Bronx, 33 acres of land prime for redevelopment.
Client
Thornton Tomasetti
Date
September 27, 2017
Want To Engage Millennials? Try Corporate Social Responsibility
by Marissa Peretz
summary
How are companies finding new ways to recruit and retain millennials? According to Phase 1 of the Millennial Impact Report, not only do millennials take up an increasingly large percentage of the workforce, but they take more time to support their local communities, and the causes/methods of outreach often vary. For example, at Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, Amy Hattan, the VP of corporate sustainability, notes that a group of volunteers spent time at Grow NYC’s Teaching Garden, an urban farm that features vegetable beds made from recycled plastic lumber.
Client
Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates
Date
September 26, 2017
Brewery Slated for Citi Field Signs Deal Nearby for Warehouse
by Liam La Guerre
summary
Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates brokers Neil Dolgin and Grant Dolgin represented both tenant and landlord in a 7,500 SF warehouse lease in Woodside, NY. Mikkeller NYC, a Copenhagen-based microbrewery, signed a lease at 51-40 58th Place for use as a storage facility that will support operations at its soon-to-be-opened CitiField brewhouse and restaurant. The property is a short drive from CitiField, and offers an interior loading dock as well as a drive-in door.
Client
Rutenberg NYC
Date
September 2017
10 New York Names to Watch
by Paul Bubny
summary
Stefani Berkin, president of Rutenberg NYC, is featured in Real Estate Forum‘s “10 New York Names to Watch” list in the September issue. The feature focuses on the home-grown companies and projects that have roots in New York, but have an impact beyond the outer boroughs. Forum showcases that Rutenberg NYC is currently NYC’s fifth largest brokerage firm in terms of agents, and is notorious for its 100% commission model.