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2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Donna Najjar, Plaza Construction LLC
June 24, 2025
What is your top advice for someone just starting out in your field? If I could offer one piece of advice to someone just starting out, it would be this: Don’t rush — step back and see the full picture first. Before diving into a bid, take the time to understand the scope of the project.
DIGroup Architecture to use graphic studio to transform spaces into experiences
June 24, 2025
Queens, NY DIGroup Architecture (DIG) is redefining how environments are experienced by embedding environmental graphics, signage and wayfinding design into the architectural process – right from the start. At a time when user experience drives design, DIG’s in-house graphics studio delivers
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: James Allen, Hirschen Singer & Epstein LLP
June 24, 2025
What is your top advice for someone just starting out in your field? I try to follow a lot of the advice I have heard given—and that has been given to me—by mentors and from leaders across our industry: ask a lot of questions, say “yes,” wake up early, be a sponge, ask more questions, listen, listen, listen.
EP Inspections & Commissioning expands with licensed structural engineer
June 24, 2025
Manhattan, NY EP Inspections & Commissioning (EPIC), a special inspections agency is expanding its in-house capabilities with the hiring of a licensed structural professional engineer, Vakhtang Tamasidze.
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Rachel Marek, LERA Consulting Structural Engineers
June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? The project I am most proud of is a project that is almost completed at Princeton University, the ES+SEAS buildings. I am so proud of this project for two reasons. The first being that I learned so much from being a part of the design team.
TRITEC Real Estate Co. to build 180,668 s/f new
Brightview Senior Living community in Greenburgh...
June 24, 2025
Greenburgh, NY Ronkonkoma-based TRITEC Real Estate Company is serving as the construction manager for the new Brightview Senior Living community. With a track record of delivering projects such as Brightview Port Jefferson and Sayville, Woodland Pond, Station Yards in Ronkonkoma, and numerous medical and
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Giuseppe Iuliucci, EW Howell Construction Group
June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? The project I am most proud of has yet to break ground but holds immense significance. The Elizabeth Seton Children’s Young Adult Center in White Plains, NY, is a pioneering specialized care facility for young adults with complex medical needs.
RKTB Architects welcomes Baez-Urena as project manager and presents award for Lawal
June 24, 2025
Manhattan, NY Architecture, planning and design experts RKTB Architects has another addition to its roster, while also celebrating a professional award presented to one of its staff of architectural designers. Adelaida Baez-Urena joins the team in the role of project manager, bringing a decade of
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Cassia Schaeffer, Cassin & Cassin LLP
June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? As a Partner at Cassin, I’m proud of my work on a NYC housing project through the PACT Preservation Program. It involved 43 parcels, 650 units, and complex financing with multiple stakeholders. The deal addressed 20 years of capital needs and preserved affordable housing for 1,000 residents.
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Alexander Smith, OPEN Impact Real Estate
June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? I am most proud of brokering the $52.6 million sale of Rising Ground’s 28-acre Leake & Watts campus — leading the nonprofit through a transformational mission-aligned real estate strategy. Through comprehensive analytics and end-to-end execution across sales, leasing and relocation,
The Salvadori Center hosts annual benefit to expand STEAM education in NYC and Penn.
June 24, 2025
Manhattan, NY The Salvadori Center hosted its 2025 Annual Benefit on May 8 at the Rooftop at the Edison Ballroom, bringing together supporters, educators, and community leaders to champion innovative STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education for K–12 students in
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Joseph Heins, Phillips Lytle LLP
June 24, 2025
What is your top advice for someone just starting out in your field? Your reputation is your most valuable asset - this includes both your professional reputation (the quality of your work) and your personal brand (the quality of your person). It can take a long time to build your reputation, so be patient.
EP Engineering provides services for multiple Vuori locations nationwide
June 24, 2025
Manhattan, NY EP Engineering, an engineering services firm, has provided full engineering services for multiple Vuori locations around the country. The popular performance clothing store has expanded to most major cities across the United States and brought in EP Engineering’s team for the new
Construction begins on Tuxedo Reserve by Aufgang Architects
June 24, 2025
Tuxedo, NY Construction has begun on the Aufgang Architects-designed upscale multifamily residences, commercial and community space at Tuxedo Reserve, a 1,200-acre mixed-use development community in the Hudson Valley.
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Levitt Yaffe, RXR Realty
June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? A few months into my job as a senior property coordinator, my assistant property manager was transferred to another property. A month later my tenant services coordinator quit and then my property manager temporarily took leave.
Bellet Construction restores sidewalk on behalf of the James Beard Foundation
June 24, 2025
Manhattan, NY When the historic sidewalk in front of the James Beard House, a culinary landmark in New York City’s Greenwich Village at 167 West 12th St. began to show signs of age, the James Beard Foundation knew they needed experts in both preservation and craftsmanship. The sidewalk
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Matthew Crawford, Blank Rome LLP
June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? In commercial leasing, I’m proud to have negotiated over 50 leases nationwide, including for Equinox, Zuma, TAO Group, Chica, Yardbird, SixPoint Brewery, Brilliant Earth, JD Sports, Vuori, Aritzia, and landlord-side deals for Acadia Realty Trust.
Gilbane Dev., ICL, Tredway, and ELH Mgmt. LLC awarded Buildings of Excellence Competition Award
June 24, 2025
Bronx, NY Gilbane Development Company, Institute for Community Living (ICL), Tredway, and ELH Mgmt. LLC (ELH), the joint venture development team for the West Tower Supportive Housing project at 280 East 161st St., with Aufgang Architects as the lead architect, has been recognized as a winner of the
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Alice Chen,GFP Real Estate
June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? I’m most proud of my work on SoMA at 25 Water St. — now the largest office-to-residential conversion in the U.S. completed to date. I’ve been part of the project from day one: identifying the building, planning the redevelopment, raising capital and closing the purchase.
Urbahn Architects with SUNY and FSC break ground on $30 million science center
June 24, 2025
Farmingdale, NY New York governor Kathy Hochul and the leadership of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, State University Construction Fund, Farmingdale State College (FSC) and Urbahn Architects celebrated the groundbreaking of Farmingdale State College’s new Computer Sciences Center, a part of
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