2021 Year in Review: David Koffler, Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
The sale of a landmarked, century-old hotel in New York City was an interesting, challenging, complex and ultimately rewarding multidisciplinary transaction. The heavily negotiated deal contended with

2021 Year in Review: Colin Montoute, WXY architecture + urban design

What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
We’ve needed to continually question how we work our values and then, our client base. For a firm like ours that is strongly civic minded, that

2021 Year in Review: Chuck Merritt, Merritt Environmental

What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
That with the right equipment for the staff, working remotely is possible and productivity doesn’t need to

2021 Year in Review: James Pirot, Cresa

What are your predictions for your industry in 2022?
Commercial property owners and managers will need to implement more interactive and occupier-friendly technology within their buildings, showcased as

2021 Year in Review: Peter Sabesan, Cresa

What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
Closing on 90,000 s/f of renewal leases at two separate locations for LIM College may have eclipsed all our other 2021 deals. Because the transactions were

2021 Year in Review: Zeynep Ekemen, Silver Defender

What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
When we began Silver Defender, we did not know the demand that the product would have. To sit down and actually learn about the technology and the

2021 Year in Review: Barry Sunshine, Janover LLC

What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
During the pandemic, my clients leaned on me and my firm for guiding and assisting them through these very rough times. This guidance included

2021 Year in Review: Christine Barshtak, Finaly General Contracting Corp.

What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
Nothing matters if you don’t have your health. All the money, all the prestige, all the success – none of

2021 Year in Review: Peter Morandi, LEED AP, Eastman Cooke Construction

What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
Scrappy bootstrapping! We learned to adapt by working cohesively at minimalist levels, actually right-sizing when the pandemic struck. We continued and even

2021 Year in Review: April Intrabartola, Eastman Cooke Construction

How has your working environment changed over the last year?
Our staff has become increasingly proficient at being flexible. Necessity is the unequivocal mother of invention and we learned how to do more with less.