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

2024 Year in Review:
Daniel Montroy, AIA, Montroy Architecture

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? Commercial tenants and designers continuously fine tune workplace concepts in order to encourage employees to return to offices, improve productivity and enhance collaboration. This is well represented by our recent project in Philadelphia, the 40,000 s/f new headquarters office of Publicis Health Media.

2024 Year in Review:
Adelaide Polsinelli, Compass

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024?  2024 was undeniably the year of the Big City Short, as we witnessed values plummet to lows not seen since the early 2000s. As vice chairman, my responsibility was to chart new paths for my brokers amidst

2024 Year in Review: Alex Lipsky, Lipsky Construction Management

What emerging trends will drive investment and development in 2025?  Every employer in every industry is feeling the stress of qualified workforce shortages. As we enter 2025 we are seeing our clients, from landlords to tenants, invest in their properties through revitalized designs and facility updates

2024 Year in Review: Rob Kuppersmith, Cushman & Wakefield

What emerging trends will drive investment and development in 2025? Personally I think 2025 is going to bring many positive trends in multiple directions. I think we’re going to see an increase in real estate projects across the world. The trends we see are now talking about the replacement of the word, location, location, location

2024 Year in Review: Yoel Goldberg, Eastern Union

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts?  Over the past few years, Eastern Union has closed many loans through credit unions. Credit unions provide for a nice, local lender experience, with the added benefit of offering pre-payment flexibility.

2024 Year in Review: Nachum Soroka, Eastern Union

What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts?  We recently closed on the acquisition of a portfolio out of lender receivership which was, surprisingly, nearly stabilized after being on the brink of bankruptcy for quite some time. While this was in part attributable to the hard work of the receiver and its operator, a big factor

2024 Year in Review: David Altman, Esq., Brown Altman & DiLeo, LLP

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024?  Most significant project accomplishment for 2024 is completion of the Enclaves Hotel Project in Southold, N.Y. The Enclaves Hotel Project began in 2017 and, following extensive SEQRA review by the Southold zoning board of appeals and, thereafter, site plan approval

2024 Year in Review: Sean Cronin, Cronin & Cronin Law Firm

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024?  Just recently we obtained an 80% reduction on a high-profile property resulting in millions of dollars of tax refunds which will assist in having the property re-developed. This past year, we have assisted numerous major new development

2024 Year in Review: Keith Brown, Esq., Brown Altman & DiLeo, LLP

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2024? Most significant project accomplishment for 2024 is gaining the zoning approvals for the AIREF Logistics Center located at Woodside Ave., Bellport, NY. This vacant, approximately fifty-acre industrial warehouse project will be comprised of four buildings totaling approximately 400,000 s/f in a Light Industrial