Long Island

USGBC-LI hosts seminar on incentives for green building

The Long Island chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council hosted a special event to share the financial benefits of green building projects...

President's message: Past and upcoming events for LICN

So many exciting and wonderful things are happening within LICN these days that I feel very fortunate to be in the president's seat surround...

Davis and Maisch of Daniel Gale Comm'l. sell 3,000 s/f

Donald Davis and Philip Maisch of Daniel Gale Commercial sold a 3,000 s/f office condo at One School St., which closed on May 30. The purcha...

Green business incentives for commercial property and rental apartments

As many people know, in February of 2008 the federal government implemented an economic stimulus package. We all are aware of this because w...

Pro-Active Business Solutions provides surveillance solutions

Historically, public housing has been plagued with high crime rates and as a result unable to serve as the government's answer as a safe ref...

Put your finder's fee arrangement in writing to avoid any disputes

Many developers use the services of "finders" to locate opportunities to invest in and/or develop properties. While the use of finders is c...

Green building initiatives are now catching on with healthcare facilities

A nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high- performance green buildings, the "green building" initia...

Terrana of FCSMC&C wins case for Goya

John Terrana, Esq., partner-in-charge of the tax certiorari department at the law firm of Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn,...

A nation of laws: Battling corruption in the building department

Watching the recent HBO mini-series "John Adams," I was struck by something John Adams had said to his fellow countrymen. In the days after ...

Affordable housing requires title insurance expertise

As any developer can tell you, building affordable housing isn't the most profitable work in the world - not by any stretch of the imaginati...