The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
Client
Stuart M. Saft of Holland & Knight
Date
April 12, 2017
The Concrete Jungle Series: Foreign CRE Investment and NY’s Next Big Neighborhood
summary
Stuart Saft, a partner and practice leader of the real estate department at Holland & Knight, via video interview, talks about three areas that we will be seeing increased development in, as well as his take on foreign investment in the U.S.
Client
Thornton Tomasetti
Date
April 12, 2017
Executive News
summary
New York City engineer Thornton Tomasetti has hired Richard J. Vivenzio in a new role as senior vice president in its East Coast property-loss consulting and forensics practice. He was a director at Navigant Consulting. Vivenzio had been a vice president at Thornton Tomasetti, from 2011 to 2014.
Client
Simone Development Companies
Date
April 6, 2017
Simone Retains Bronx Auto Parts Dealer
by Rayna Katz
summary
Simone Development Companies has signed a 73,000 s/f lease at 1390 Spofford Avenue in the Hunts Point area of the Bronx for LKO Hunts Point Auto Parts. Ownership’s Joanna Simone, VP of leasing and property management operations, negotiated the lease. The auto parts company will relocate from 1480 Sheridan Expressway—another Simone Development property—also in Hunts Point.
Client
Pembrook Capital Management LLC
Date
April 6, 2017
Unfinished Southern California Project Gets Second Chance
summary
Pembrook Capital Management provided a $7.57m first mortgage loan to finance the completion of Alondra Villas, a 29-unit townhouse development in Compton, Calif. This loan will allow the new buyer, Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles to complete the project over the next nine months, targeting the units to low-and moderate-income buyers.
Client
Mack Real Estate Group
Date
April 5, 2017
The Power 50: Richard Mack and Peter Sotoloff
by The Editors
summary
Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies CEO Richard Mack and CIO and Managing Partner Peter Sotoloff are featured in the Commercial Observer’s Power 50. Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies originated $2 billion in 2016 and expects that number to rise to $3 billion in 2017.
Client
HFZ Capital Group
Date
April 5, 2017
Historic NYC Building Aims for $1.35 Billion Condo Conversion
by Oshrat Carmiel
summary
Ziel Feldman’s HFZ Capital Group will convert 95 empty rental units at the Belnord into condos that will be listed at $3,000 a square foot on average. The gated complex occupies a full square block on the Upper West Side. Robert A.M. Stern has been hired for the project at the landmarked limestone-and-brick building
Client
Rubenstein Partners L.P.
Date
April 4, 2017
What you don’t know about VR and AR that you should: 5 Brooklyn experts weigh in
by Tyler Woods
summary
Technical.ly asked five Brooklynites working in fields from art to real estate what the good word is in AR/VR. Rubenstein Partners discussed how it uses Virtual Reality to host tours of its 25 Kent Avenue property in Williamsburg while it’s still under construction
Client
Avison Young
Date
April 4, 2017
Softening commercial market has brokers trading places
by Dan Geiger
summary
Mitti Liebersohn, head of Avison Young’s New York operations discusses how the current commercial sales and leasing arena has seen increased brokerage competition. The article appeared in Crain’s New York Business.
Client
Savanna
Date
April 4, 2017
Preparing for the Future Using Lessons From Hurricane Sandy
by David Dunlap
summary
New York Times reporter David Dunlap writes about building owners who are taking important steps to prepare for future storm-related flooding and other damage. Savanna, a real estate investment company, talks to two office towers that were knocked out by Hurricane Sandy, as they were located 400 feet from the Hudson River. New regulations and flood barriers are being put into place for a number of landlords that have properties near the water.