The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Client
Savanna
Date
July 31, 2017
Savanna buying Berkeley Building in Midtown
by Mark Maurer and Konrad Putzier
summary
Savanna is in contract to acquire a 300,000 SF office property at 19 West 44th Street for about $195 million. The property, known as the Berkeley Building, is owned by German investment manager Deka Immobilien. A Colliers International team led by Richard Baxter and Robert Stamm is brokering the transaction.
Client
Avison Young
Date
July 30, 2017
New Jersey Has a Millennials Problem
by Keiko Morris
summary
Jeffrey Heller, principal and managing director of the New Jersey operation of Avison Young, notes that many landlords are shaping their strategies around appealing to millennials. Now, more than ever, companies are paying more attention to the environment outside the four walls of the office, like the building’s lobby and exterior spaces, even the town where the building is situated.
Client
Madison Realty Capital
Date
July 27, 2017
This Queens warehouse with a rooftop produce farm is sold as part of a $78 million deal
by Robert Pozarycki
summary
Madison Realty Capital and Artemis Real Estate Partners has acquired two industrial warehouses in Hollis, Queens for $78 million. The buildings at 184-10 and 184-60 Jamaica Avenue were purchased from Rodless Properties LLC. Gotham Greens, a producer of hydroponically grown leafy greens for NYC restaurants and consumers, has a greenhouse atop 184-60 Jamaica Avenue. Josh Zegen of Madison Realty Capital noted the assets’ prime location, and added that both properties will be enhanced to cater to tenants looking for quality industrial space in the region.
Client
Soho Properties
Date
July 26, 2017
Inside the sales gallery for 45 Park Place, Sharif El-Gamal's luxe downtown skyscraper
by Amy Plitt
summary
Curbed NY editor Amy Plitt take us inside the Piero Lissoni-designed sales gallery of 45 Park Place, a condo development by Soho Properties. The home in the sales gallery is modeled after one of the building’s full-floor apartments.
Client
Jonathan Rose Companies
Date
July 26, 2017
All-rounder always has her eyes on the wood and the trees
summary
Caroline Vary, whose career is based on meaningful and socially responsible work, is profiled in Real Estate Weekly. Vary joined green investment and developer Jonathan Rose Companies a decade ago, and is focused on re-positioning assets and reinvigorating communities. During her tenure at Rose, Vary has led the development of the LEED Gold Certified Metro Green residential building at the Stamford Transportation Center, and will spend time working with the firm’s newly acquired Cleveland office.
Client
Savitt Partners
Date
July 26, 2017
CO’s Fourth Annual List of Top NYC Boutique Brokerages
summary
Savitt Partners, led by Bob Savitt, is named one of New York City’s Top Boutique Brokerage firms by the Commercial Observer. Established in 2009, and with a dozen agents on its roster, Savitt, both an owner and broker, has completed massive deals for WeWork, and multiple fashion tenants at its 530 7th Avenue office property.
Client
Savitt Partners
Date
July 24, 2017
Asian-style Pret coming to NYC
by Jennifer Gould Keil
summary
ITSU, a UK-based Asian-style fast food chain from the founder of Pret a Manger, is opening its first U.S. location at 530 Seventh Avenue in the Fashion District, at 39th Street, next year. The 2,100 square foot space will have around 65 seats. Bob Savitt, Brian Neugeboren and Nicole Goetz of Savitt Partners repped the building while RKF’s Jaclyn Totolo, Ariel Schuster and Michael Cohen represented ITSU.
Client
Avison Young
Date
July 24, 2017
Ropes & Gray Alumni Split Off With New Law Firm in 18K-SF FiDi Digs
by Liam LaGuerre
summary
A law firm specializing in intellectual property rights has signed a new, 17,596 SF lease at JEMB’s 75 Broad Street. The practice is a spin-off from the division at Ropes & Gray. Avison Young’s Michael Leff and Jedd Nero represented the law firm, Haley Guiliano, while a team from Newmark Knight Frank represented the landlord, JEMB.
Client
Madison Realty Capital
Date
July 24, 2017
Developers of large Bed-Stuy condo complex score $88M construction loan
by Mark Maurer
summary
Madison Realty Capital provided an $88 million construction financing loan to the developers of Cascade, a seven-building condo complex in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. The funds will allow the development team of Empire State Management, Abraham Brach and Nachman Leibowitz to proceed with construction on the property at the old Cascade Linen factory site.