Name: Murray Shor
Title: Founder/Owner
Company: Jomurpa Publishing Inc., DBA Shopping Center Digest
Location: P.O. Box 837, 20 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY 10960
Birthplace and year: The Bronx, NY, 1932
Family: Married, 3 children, 6 grandchildren
College: Brooklyn College
First job outside of real estate: Reporter for newspapers and magazines.
First job in real estate or allied field: Editor, "Chain Store Age"
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Editor, twice-monthly newsletter, "Shopping Center Digest" and annual, "Expanding Retailers."
Hobbies: Tennis, sailing
Person you admire most (outside of real estate): Dionysius
Key to success: Sweat equity and networking.
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Tennis pro.
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? I would like to say there was an outstanding transaction for me this past year but 2024 was more a culmination of long-term relationships, most of which continued to transact. Deals were smaller in many cases but we saw robust leasing both on the agency side as well as on the tenant side.