What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
Our family office has two direct lending strategies at this time—we provide bridge loans to property owners and also provide senior credit to
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
Positive landlord/tenant relations always have been important, and the pandemic brought this dynamic into focus. As tenants worked to navigate an incredibly
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
Our firm has successfully withstood the pandemic-related economic downturn and has won several very significant commissions, including the 630,000 s/f Morgan North redevelopment and the complete redesign and expansion of the Top of the Rock observation deck
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
I have learned that New York City commercial real estate market will always have supply and
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
MADGI recently completed one of the most interesting restaurant spaces in Manhattan, for which our firm served as executive architect: Chef Daniel Boulud’s Le Pavillon at One Vanderbilt. In collaboration with
What are your predictions for your industry in 2022?
The construction industry will be among the first to move to the metaverse, collaborating in virtual environments to plan, design, sequence,
How has your working environment changed over the last year?
We geared up to learn and depend more on social media; data information companies; and technical hardware to produce results which will benefit us
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
Our greatest accomplishment of 2021 is our company’s focus. Our first goal was to
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced some of humanity’s longest-held wisdom—that strife is the soil from which growth stems.
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021?
I represented (along with a full team of Olshan lawyers and a team from Simpson Thatcher) the historic, century old Kaufman Astoria Studios in its sale to
How has your working environment changed over the last year?
Zoom and remote work enabled many efficiencies and productivity gains from time formerly spent in transit. As workplaces reopened, it was great to