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2021 Year in Review: William Gati, Architecture Studio
December 28, 2021
What is the best advice you received in 2021, and who was it from?
The best advice I received in 2021 was from the Bible during an in depth study. Nehemiah 8:10. The Joy of the Lord is your Strength. This means that
2021 Year in Review: Colin Montoute, WXY architecture + urban design
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
We’ve needed to continually question how we work our values and then, our client base. For a firm like ours that is strongly civic minded, that
2021 Year in Review: Roey Dor, Obligo
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
The world is much more technologically advanced than I had realized. If you had asked me before the pandemic to assess how functional the world would
2021 Year in Review: Robert Frustaci, Premier Compaction Systems
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
The concern of your employee’s health and welfare was never more important.
2021 Year in Review: David Levy, Lester Bleckner & Shaw LLP
December 28, 2021
What are your predictions for your industry in 2022?
More action. We are a full-service real estate firm, launched with the idea that being a “one-stop shop” would enable us to best serve and
2021 Year in Review: Adam Courtney, Neighbor Advisors LLC
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
The biggest lesson I learned during the pandemic is that life and work don’t stop just because the world did. Even when work pauses on a
2021 Year in Review: Mark Leskanic, Surety Bond Professionals, Inc.
December 28, 2021
What are your predictions for your industry in 2022?
Industry wise, I anticipate further growth into 2022 and 2023, mostly fueled by the influx of monies and the government's “priming” of the economy.
2021 Year in Review: Greg Berger, Robert Martin Company, LLC
December 28, 2021
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
The sale of 3 Executive Blvd. and 3 Odell Plaza in Yonkers—over 130,000 s/f of office space—for $36.6 million, which represented a
2021 Year in Review: Justin Godner, Lancewood Capital
December 28, 2021
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
Our family office has two direct lending strategies at this time—we provide bridge loans to property owners and also provide senior credit to
2021 Year in Review: Mike Aziz, Cooper Robertson
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
One of the biggest lessons that I’ve taken from
2021 Year in Review: John Robbins, Turner & Townsend
December 28, 2021
What are your predictions for your industry in 2022?
The construction industry will be among the first to move to the metaverse, collaborating in virtual environments to plan, design, sequence,
2021 Year in Review: Ray Wu, Wynd Technologies Inc.
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced some of humanity’s longest-held wisdom—that strife is the soil from which growth stems.
2021 Year in Review: Adam Lubinsky, PhD, AIC, WXY architecture + urban design
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
We’re thinking more broadly about where we work and how our work connects to other places. We’re reaching out to other places through
2021 Year in Review: L.D. Salmanson, Cherre
December 28, 2021
What are your predictions for your industry in 2022?
Traditional real estate companies will look to stay relevant through acquisition of PropTech companies. In 2021, New York City property values
2021 Year in Review: Elizabeth Lion, The Doe Fund
December 28, 2021
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
2021 was a banner year for The Doe Fund’s growing portfolio of affordable and supportive housing. The organization opened three residences—Tiffany Court Plaza at
2021 Year in Review: Victor Body-Lawson, AIA, Body Lawson Associates Architects and Planners
December 28, 2021
How has your working environment changed over the last year?
Design and real estate work are no longer simply venue- or space-based. The process has become increasingly virtual, and we collaborate using sophisticated tools and
2021 Year in Review: Barry LePatner, LePatner & Associates LLP
December 28, 2021
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
Often, I am retained to serve as white knight to assist clients with large projects facing massive construction problems. From April to August, I was deeply
2021 Year in Review: Joseph Most, Berdon LLP
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
How resilient we can all be and how strong the ability to adapt is. Pre-pandemic, if you had asked me whether Berdon would be able to shift to
2021 Year in Review: Ken Follett, Kalam U.S.
December 28, 2021
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
2021 was the first year of U.S. operations of Kalam, a Spain-based leading global historic preservation firm. Internationally, Kalam has been
2021 Year in Review: Jack Hurley, Isa Realty Group
December 28, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
With the world constantly changing, I learned to stay positive, be flexible/open minded and just focus on each day one at a time. I keep