March

Sharon of CB Richard Ellis Capital Markets arranges $1.4 million acquisition of a gas station located at 456-60 Bushwick Ave. in Brooklyn Tishman Construction converts former Rolls Royce showroom into 70,000 s/f lab/office building; team includes Stonehill & Taylor Arch. Dolgin of Kalmon Dolgin arranges 5,000 s/f lease for Flour and Sugar LLC with LaRusso of Tungsten Props.; two-story property is located in Brooklyn Onyx Equities closes 835,000 s/f in sales and leases in 2008; includes sale of a 316,797 s/f bldg. in White Plains and 17,673 s/f lease renewal Bucci of Hemisphere Holdings completes $1.63m sale of four-building portfolio; deal financed by Pathfinder Bank, GH holdings was the seller Hendey of Houlihan Parnes/iCap completes $2.7m acquisition of 10,250 s/f bldg.; Coleman and Schwartz of HP negotiated financing Solano of Got Properties and Brenner of Prime Realty complete $7.25 million sale of a three apartment building package in the five-towns area Coldwell Banker Commercial Rosner & Associates completes 6,000 s/f office lease in Islip for the Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County, Inc. Molfetta and Kowalczyk of the LIDC completed financing for a total of 96,000 s/f as part of total funding for projects in Suffolk County Stalco Const. completes $3m expansion for Oyster Bay High School; team includes Burton, Behrendt and Smith and Ysrael A. Seinuk, P.C. Schneider and Vascotto of VVA to be honored by F*E*G*S on May 20 for help in rebuilding New York City; Firm is celebrating its 15th anniversary Caliendo Architects converts piano factory located at 21-01 Vernon Blvd., Queens into a 69-unit building; Pru. Douglas Elliman is sales agent Designed by GreenbergFarrow, Fordham Place is a pre-certified LEED project nearing completion; team includes William Vitacco Assoc. and OJR Greenspan and Heaner of Kaufman Org. complete 32,359 s/f lease; Kaplan and Wallis of Lansco reps. tenant, Geneva Watch Group Marcus & Millichap's Manhattan office closes a total of $73.1m in sales during 2008; includes the $21.5m sale by Kimchy of Marcus & Millichap Bruckner of Charter RE sells three props. for $1.3m; Parshall of Nothnagle, Story of Charter and independent broker Rosenfeld assist Verrino Construction completes renovation of the 56,000 s/f 414 West 14th St. in Manhattan with PBS Realty acting as the exclusive leasing agent Denihan Hospitality awarded management contract for Buckingham Hotel, at the corner of West 57th St. and Sixth Ave.; JHNY 57 is owner Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Sasaki Associates to complete restoration of entrances at Manhattan House; O'Connor Capital is sponsor. Abigail Michaels Concierge to provide five star concierge services at 52-story condominium, Olympic Tower, located at 641 Fifth Ave. Edery of Paradigm Funding Group secures ten loans totaling $39.09m; includes $3m loan secured by three 5-story walk-ups on West 100th St. Hirsch of Meridian Cap. arranges $55.1m first mortgage; Hirsch and Karpel of Meridian also closed on $65m for Knickerbocker Plaza Houlihan of Houlihan Parnes/iCap secures $1.875m first mortgage; The loan was placed with a Long Island savings bank for Milio Realty Corp. Merin, Bernhaut, Gabriel, Cruz, O'Leary of C&W arrange $78m sale: rep'd. seller, Centro Props. and procured buyer, Acadia Realty Hunt Commercial Real Estate brokers three sales totaling $1.037 million; includes the $780,000 sale of a 7,000 s/f building by Badger-Bach McGowan Builders completes three tenant fit outs at the St. Francis Medical Arts Pavilion; Optimus Architecture designed the interiors Savitt of Savitt Partners and Levy of Adams & Co. secure 21,000 s/f sublease for Perry Ellis; new space on 25th and 26th floors at 530 Seventh Ave. Consolo and Aquino of Pru. Douglas Elliman receive Top Retail Award from Pru. Douglas Elliman; marks the fourth consecutive year