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Javier of HelmsleySpear passes away at age 72;
A 35-year commercial leasing and sales veteran

Jimmy Javier, 
HelmsleySpear

New York, NY Jimmy Javier, an assistant vice president at HelmsleySpear, passed away on October 25 at the age of 72.  

Javier was an accomplished and highly respected commercial broker with more than 35 years of commercial leasing and sales experience. Over a three and a half decade career he closed hundreds of transactions working with some of the most prominent domestic and international commercial property owners and corporate tenants.

“The entire HelmsleySpear corporate family is saddened to lose one of our most accomplished and treasured colleagues. He was a wonderful member of our team, a great New Yorker, and a dear friend we will miss him greatly,” said Kent Swig, president of HelmsleySpear.

Javier grew up in Manila, Philippines and attended college in Washington, D.C. at George Washington University. Among his many professional accomplishments was the DealMakers award presented by Tishman Speyer Properties. He was a long-ime resident of New York City.

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