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Posted: August 26, 2014
25 Year Anniversary Q&A: Michelle Marie Zere
Name: Michelle Marie Zere
Title: Executive Vice President
Company Name: Zere Real Estate
Year Founded: 1980
Years with Company: 25
Q: Your most memorable "15 minutes of fame" in the NYREJ:
A: My most memorable NYREJ moment was in 1989. I was 21 years old and just returned from California where I graduated from UCSB when I did my first office leasing deal - 10,000 s/f for a 10-year lease for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company at the Airport Conference Center, Bohemia along the McArthur Airport Vets Hwy Business Corridor. The deal was all done on a handshake and I did cartwheels across my office after the long term lease was signed. NYREJ featured this transaction on their cover and I was over the moon because I beat out the national companies to get the tenant by being extra friendly and having my car fixed next to the tenants prior overcrowded location.
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