Long Island

Property of the Month: Crest Group breaks ground on Setauket Meadows in the Woods; Team includes: McDonough & Conroy, D&B and Luigi Pascarella

East Setauket, NY Founded in 2005, The Crest Group LLC is a vertically integrated real estate management firm. Their capabilities range from ground-up construction of entire communities, office complexes and retail plazas to owning and managing commercial buildings (office and retail), residential communities, and hotels....

Rechler leases 2,000 s/f micro unit to Technical Glazing Solutions; Khetaguri of Alliance Real Estate Corp. reps tenant

Westhampton, NY Rechler Equity Partners has completed a long-term lease at the first of 13 micro-units at 215 Roger’s Way in the Hampton Business District. Technical Glazing Solutions (TGS), a designer and installer of custom-made windows, will be moving into 2,000 s/f of the business park’s third completed building.

Freedberg of Suffolk Industrial Properties closes three sales totaling $5.36 million

West Babylon, NY Michael Freedberg, president of Suffolk Industrial Properties, has arrange three sales totaling $5.36 million. The deals include the following:
• 55 Kean St., West Babylon: Previously owned and occupied by Garal Industries,

Hunt Corp. Question & Answer: Presentation makes the difference

Q: We will be placing our industrial building on the market shortly.  What should be done to prepare the building for showing to prospective buyers?

Carello of KW Commercial brokers $754,600 sale

Valley Stream, NY Rick Carello of KW Commercial completed the $754,600 sale of 28 Brooklyn Ave. The five-unit multifamily dwelling is currently fully occupied and generates a 6.6% cap rate. The seller was Argent LLC and the buyer was K & S Capital Realty, an investment group from Queens.

NAI Long Island arranges three leases totaling 13,623 s/f

Kew Gardens, NY NAI LI has brokered three leases totaling 13,623 s/f. In the first lease, Carmine Inserra, principal, and Paul Schneider, senior director of NAI LI, represented the sub-tenant in the lease of 2,000 s/f of office space located at 120-34 Queens Blvd. The sub-tenant, EAC, Inc., leased the space from sub-landlord...

Perna of Newmark Knight Frank arranges four leases - 171,500 s/f

Plainview, NY Ralph Perna, executive managing director of Newmark Knight Frank, has arranged four leases totaling 171,500 s/f. The deals include the following: A 25,000 s/f lease at 150 Express St., Plainview to ITM Tool Dist. The lease has an option to purchase. Perna represented the landlord and tenant.

Santaniello and Florio of Stongate handle $400,000 sale of 819 s/f retail property

Island Park, NY Stonegate Real Estate has arranged the $400,000 sale of 4451 Austin Blvd. Lauren Santaniello and Dominque Florio of Stonegate represented the buyer and seller of the 819 s/f retail property. Stonegate exclusively represents the buyer (a farm store retail chain out of Florida) in Southern Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Contract and bid rescission: Be careful when submitting bids and exercise due diligence - by Andrew Richards

Contractors are continually requested by owners to submit non-revocable bids or proposals for construction work whereby the bid or proposal is binding on the contractor for a certain period of time so that the owner can determine which contractor it wants to hire. During this process there are times when a contractor figures out that it underbid...

What is behind the scenes of the Long Island pharmaceuticals industry? - by Ralph Perna

Recently, there have been several articles regarding the ever-growing pharmaceutical industry on Long Island. What the articles neglect to mention, however, is the long, expensive process it takes to develop, expand and create a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. True, over the past 10 years, the pharmaceutical industry, particularly on Long Island....