The following is a selection of media placements for Great Ink clients and a summary of each.
FirstService Residential
October 2022
By A.J. Sidranksy
In a world with the challenges of climate change, increasing population, and shrinking space and resources, The Cooperator takes a look at the growing concern of how we dispose our trash, espeically in multifamily buildings across the country. Andrew Batshaw, business development director for FirstService Residential in Boston talks with Alan Sidransky about the issue and how property managers are advising buildings to manage.
MdeAS, The Praedium Group
September 27, 2022
Mason Sleeper, Co-CIO, Principal – Portfolio Management at The Praedium Group, and Tricia Ebner, a senior associate at MdeAS, are featured in New York Real Estate Journal’s Industry Leaders spotlight. They talk about their management styles, recent professional accomplishments and share advice for future leaders.
Rubenstein Partners
September 26, 2022
Rubenstein Mortgage Capital has provided a $62 million first mortgage loan for the acquisition of 3400 at CityLine, a 312,345-SF, five-story, Class A office building in Richardson, TX. An affiliate of Chicago-based Zeller Realty Group was the borrower. RMC provided initial funding of $57 million at closing with an additional $5 million funding for future leasing costs. Andrew Murray, SVP of debt originations for RMC, originated the transaction.
EW Howell Construction Group
September 22, 2022
EW Howell Construction Group served as general contractor for two New York City public schools – PS 464 in Manhattan and the Tommie L. Agee Educational Campus at IS 419 in Flushing. The firm also celebrated the construction kickoff of a third, IS 322K in Brooklyn. The firm was awarded the contracts by the New York City School Construction Authority.
Arden Group
September 21, 2022
By Matthew Rothstein
Silverstein Properties and Arden Group, the joint venture that owns 1735 Market St., have signed five leases totaling 75K SF. UBS Financial Services signed the largest of the five, taking 23K SF on a 10-year, 10-month lease to relocate from elsewhere in the building to the 44th floor. Capital One has also signed a nine-year, 22K SF lease to place an “innovation center” in the building, relocating some office functions from the suburbs.
Hodges Ward Elliott
September 20, 2022
Hodges Ward Elliott, a boutique real estate capital markets advisor, recently released major takeaways from its New York City Q2 2022 hospitality market report. As the U.S. continues to recover from the events of the last two years, New York City tourism is returning to pre-pandemic levels as both international and business travel to the area has surged over the past few months. In addition, the reopening of numerous hotels throughout the city, as well as the return of Broadway shows, has also stoked the market, which bodes well for the future health of the New York City hospitality sector.
FirstService Residential
September 15, 2022
By Alan Sidransky
Kelly Dougherty, president of FirstService Energy, talks with The Cooperator about the importance of carbon studies for multifamily communities. A carbon study is similar to an energy audit, but instead of assessing a building’s entire energy profile to identify areas of inefficiency, carbon studies focus just on how a building or community uses fossil fuels.
Marcus & Millichap
September 15, 2022
Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation arranged $61.8 million in construction financing for a five-story, 264-unit multifamily development at 375 Whitney Avenue in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Gary Sefcik, a director based out of the MMCC New York office, and Phillip Gause, first VP of capital markets in MMCC’s Denver office, secured the financing on behalf of a private real estate development company.
Marcus & Millichap
September 14, 2022
Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation has named Pete Fehlman as managing director. Fehlman will lead a Dallas-based hospitality finance practice. He will handle hospitality and resort debt as well as equity advisory transactions throughout North America on behalf of MMCC’s clients. Before joining the capital markets firm, Fehlman served as managing director at Atlanta-based Hodges Ward Elliott.