Spotlights

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Derek Peterson of Soter Technologies

Derek Peterson’s visionary leadership at Soter Technologies is evident in his creation of FlySense®, the world’s first vape and bully detection technology. His innovation addresses crucial safety concerns, making educational and corporate environments safer and healthier, exemplifying his commitment to advancing technology for a more secure world.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Jonathan Imani of IMC Architecture

Jonathan’s expertise and visionary approach to design are shown through his ability to create excellent, beautiful architecture while maximizing the zoning and functionality. He takes advantage of every square inch of available and allowed square footage to create visually stunning buildings, which is a very sought after skill in the highly regulated NYC market.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Adelaide Polsinelli of Compass

Adelaide’s visionary status is exemplified by her ability to adapt and innovate in response to market trends. Recognizing the tightening market, she orchestrated a strategic pivot from sales-only to a comprehensive real estate platform that included leasing of commercial and residential properties, broadening her service offerings and diversifying revenue streams.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Jonathan Gerstein of Olive Tree Holdings

Recently, Jonathan spearheaded the implementation of a robust data science discipline to Olive Tree Holdings’ market growth prediction, improving the firm’s fundamental metrics for investment selection and underwriting accuracy. Analysis that used to take weeks can now be done in minutes, giving Olive Tree a competitive edge and precise outlook.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Cory Rosenthal of Matthews Real Estate Investment Services

Cory recently joined Matthews and already made a significant contribution. In one month, he recruited over a dozen high-producing, well-established agents to the New York office and has vigorously promoted Matthews’ culture, resources, and support. He took a new opportunity, jumped in headfirst, and made an immediate impact.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Lee Brodsky of BEB Capital

Lee led BEB Capital’s joint venture with Douglaston Development and Totem to build a 17-story mixed-income multifamily development at 1057 Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Of the 456 units, 137 will be permanently affordable, a game-changing and impactful development at a time when the city needs more affordable housing.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Charlie Avolio of Shawmut Design and Construction

Charlie’s instrumental in driving our growth strategy of increasing market share in large-scale projects and expanding into new sectors. Charlie’s tenure and industry reputation has enabled the pursuit and execution of significant commercial, education, healthcare, and life sciences projects, while modeling our employee-owned culture of client service and community engagement.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Eric Brody, ANAX Real Estate Partners

Through ANAX Real Estate Partners, Eric is aiming to deploy between $150-$200 million in capital over the next 18 months, focused primarily on middle-market multifamily and commercial assets across New York City. With these funds, Eric intends to stabilize these assets and bring them to completion.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Stuart Saft, Holland & Knight

In the last decade, Stuart has represented clients in converting over 1 million s/f of Manhattan office space into residential, hospitality, educational, medical, and other uses, avoiding the environmental consequences, timing, and cost of demolishing viable space and building new facilities, has given webinars, and published articles on Adaptive Reuse.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Evan Fox of Grassi Advisors & Accountants

Evan is revamping our organization’s technical tax training programs to develop the next generation of thinkers and advisors within the firm. His aim is to foster and nurture the next generation of real estate tax visionaries to provide our clients with the most comprehensive, strategic and thoughtful service imaginable.