Bronx, NY Fried Frank’s real estate department partnered with Project Destined, a real estate education program, to support the launch of its Bronx program held on March 2-4. Project Destined is a non-profit, created by entrepreneurs Cedric Bobo and Fred Greene, whose goal is to
Manhattan, NY Not even an unpleasant weather forecast could freeze out a gathering of the International Nadlan Community (INC) of the Israeli Real Estate Center at the offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP in Times Sq. Eran Rolls, chairman of the Israeli Real Estate Center with Joe Berko, president of INC and Karen Gamba, PR and business development director of INC, hosted a real estate dinner and roundtable discussion where
New York, NY A school for 200 children opened in the village of Napaniya khijadiya in the Indian State of Gujarat. The school was built with a $100,000 donation made by the late Champalakshmi Narottamdas Lakhani. The school, which opened in February, is housed in a new three-story building and is named for its benefactor, serving Grades 1 through 8.
New York, NY Quenia Abreu, CEO and founder of the New York Women’s Chamber of Commerce (NYWCC), launched ContractHER, a new NYWCC initiative designed to help Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs) navigate the procurement process and secure more government contracts at the organization’s annual State of Women in Business Forum held March 23 at Columbia University.
Surprisingly, as real estate savvy as most investors are in the Northeast, some may not be aware of the requirement that both the relinquished property being sold–and the replacement property being purchased–must be “held for investment or productive use in a trade or business.” Note that after the…
New York, NY According to Arthur Mirante, Avison Young principal and Tri-State president, the company is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its operations in the region by launching a new charitable initiative.
Under the new Avison Young Five for Five program, employees in the firm’s NYC, Long Island, New Jersey and Fairfield/Westchester offices will dedicate five hours of volunteer community service to a charity of their choice over a five-month period.