Nominations for the 2025 Women in Construction Spotlight now open!

The 2025 Women in Construction Spotlight in the New York Real Estate Journal is set for release on February 25th, in honor of Women in Construction Week (March 2-8). This special issue will spotlight the incredible women and women-owned firms making a lasting impact across the New York A/E/C industry.

2024 Year in Review:
Steven Katz, Arbor Realty Trust

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024?  Over the past four to five years, Arbor had the vision to step into the build-to-rent (BTR) space, knowing that we had the ability to lend from construction to bridge to permanent.

2024 Year in Review: Bruce Lilker, IMEG

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? IMEG won the contract to provide mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering design and services for the proposed new Yeshiva University Dental School to be located at 1131 Bdwy., N.Y. The nine-floor, 157,000 s/f graduate-level dental school

2024 Year in Review: Michael Hunter Coghill,
Adirondack Capital Partners

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024?  One of our most notable transactions of 2024 was the sale of the Cartier Mansion at 102 Greene St. in SoHo for $46 million for a staggering 4.2% cap rate and over $5,000 per s/f. Our team had the privilege of representing both the seller and procuring the buyer,

2024 Year in Review:
Abe Bergman, Eastern Union

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024?  Eastern Union’s greatest accomplishment in 2024 was our delivery of financing to our clients from more than 109 different lenders. Commercial mortgage brokers must be able to tap into a large spectrum of prospective lenders. But these days, amid a changing market, lenders are more reserved and more selective.

2024 Year in Review: Michele Pincus, Esq.,
H2M architects + engineers

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts?  H2M has worked on various adaptive reuse projects, converting under-utilized structures into vital facilities. H2M, led by its MEP group, worked on the transformation of a former Sears retail space into a major, multi-disciplinary healthcare facility.

2024 Year in Review: Megan Grand,
MTG Creative Group LLC

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? MTG Creative Group is proud to have been the marketing agency that supported BGO and Cushman & Wakefield in developing the leasing and marketing campaign and customized tenant presentation deck for Newport Tower.

2024 Year in Review: Dan Bythewood,
LaCité Development, LLC

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024?  While we continue to explore opportunities in New York and manage our Hempstead rental property, our development site in the city of Baltimore has seen tremendous strides. We signed a deal with NVR/Ryan Homes,

2024 Year in Review:
Laura Rapaport, North Bridge

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? This year, in a commercial real estate market struggling with distress and expensive access to capital, I led my team at North Bridge to secure a $1 billion commitment from The Carlyle Group to facilitate the origination of C-PACE,

2024 Year in Review: Steven Yu, Crystal Window & Door Systems

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024?  As a national fenestration manufacturer, Crystal supplies vinyl and aluminum windows and doors to many notable projects in the New York metro area. One such project completed this year was The Arboretum development