Category: Spotlight Content

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Ryan MacDonald, Keller Augusta

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Ryan MacDonald, Keller Augusta

October 27, 2026
I’m most proud of how we’re rethinking business development. Working with an AI partner, we’re building our own intelligence platform from information we already have: our client relationships, market data providers, and industry news.
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Brian Whitmer, Doors & Spaces Industrial

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Brian Whitmer, Doors & Spaces Industrial

October 27, 2026
The biggest opportunity lies in institutionalizing small-bay industrial (SBI), an essential, highly fragmented sector we view as the ‘apartments of industrial.’ While
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Kyle Gerace, NAI DiLeo-Bram & Co.

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Kyle Gerace, NAI DiLeo-Bram & Co.

October 27, 2026
My proudest accomplishment is earning long-term client trust while elevating our collaborative culture at NAIDB. By leveraging the discipline from my Division I
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Peter Bafitis, RKTB Architects

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Peter Bafitis, RKTB Architects

October 27, 2026
We strive for design innovation that creates ripples of positive impact throughout each community. Our design for a just-opened 130-bed shelter for unhoused men
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Victor Body-Lawson, Body Lawson Associates Architects + Planners

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Victor Body-Lawson, Body Lawson Associates Arch...

October 27, 2026
Not only are our architects advancing more 100% affordable housing projects, they’re more sustainable and energy-efficient than ever before. Our 142-unit
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Aaron Krawitz, Bravo Capital

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Aaron Krawitz, Bravo Capital

October 27, 2026
As founder and CEO of Bravo Capital and Bravo Property Trust, Aaron Krawitz built Bravo Capital into a leading national HUD lender for multifamily and healthcar
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Avrohom Colev Posen, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Avrohom Colev Posen, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

October 27, 2026
AI has made my approach to transactional work more interactive and efficient. I often dictate instructions as though I were working with an associate, prompting the
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Rachel Birnboim, Perkins Eastman

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Rachel Birnboim, Perkins Eastman

October 27, 2026
I’m excited by how the firm is helping hospitals rethink what a modern facility can do for its community. At SUNY Downstate, we’re leading design of
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Alex Ianchenko, EHDD

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Alex Ianchenko, EHDD

October 27, 2026
Building transformation — not replacement — is increasingly becoming the most important decarbonization strategy for architects and real estate leaders. Our
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Loryn Riggiola, Zetlin & De Chiara LLP

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Loryn Riggiola, Zetlin & De Chiara LLP

October 27, 2026
I am proud of utilizing my experience as a seasoned litigator in construction and commercial real estate matters to assist and advise clients in developing practical
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Henderson Beck, Dealpath

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Henderson Beck, Dealpath

October 27, 2026
AI innovation has drastically changed how we build at Dealpath, improving processes from just one year ago. We now ship products more than twice as fast, and have built
Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Denis Leff, Suffolk

Ones To Watch: Innovators In Commercial Real Estate: Denis Leff, Suffolk

October 27, 2026
The accomplishment I’m most proud of is helping advance Suffolk’s Jobsite of the Future, an AI-enabled operating model that embeds AI Engineers