Spotlights

2019 Year in Review: Jaclyn Peranteau, PE, Key Civil Engineering, PC

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2019?
Over the last year I have established myself and firm as a go to women business enterprise and specifically with Stony Brook University.

2019 Year in Review: Edward Smith, Jr., Commercial Classroom LLC

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2019?
I have reached a couple of new milestones in my teaching career. I have personally now trained 15,000 plus students in commercial real estate

2019 Year in Review: Ron Lanzo, AFR Furniture Rental Inc.

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2019?
Getting promoted to the Director of National Accounts for the Commercial Division at AFR Furniture Rental.

2019 Year in Review: Ralph Perna, Newmark Knight Frank

What was your most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2019? 
J P Express, trucking company has been trying–for over ten years–to find a location, with the amount of land required: 7 to 10 acres, zoned for

2019 Year in Review: Rod Santomassimo, The Massimo Group

What was your most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2019?
We piloted several of our coaching programs with international CRE brokerage firms that are being picked up for implementation in 2020.

2019 Year in Review: Scott Kind, Teal, Becker, & Chiaramonte CPA’s P.C.

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2019?
2019 was a tough year for CPA’s in regards to taxes and especially tax planning. The new tax laws from the Tax Laws and Jobs Act

2019 Year in Review: Howard Stein, Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2019?
As an adjunct professor at Touro Law Center, I have taught a course in real estate transactions for the past 26 years. I really enjoy

2019 Year in Review: David Zere, Zere Real Estate Services

strong>What are your predictions for commercial real estate in 2020?
Commercial markets are strong nationwide and wage growth has outpaced inflation. There is no imminent recession. U.S. Mexico trade deal and China deals look like

2019 Year in Review: Jay Rosenbaum, Rosenbaum Design Group Architecture

What was your most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2019?
Our most notable projects in 2019 were both in the supermarket sector. First, was the Stop & Shop Supermarkets takeover of the

Question of the Month: What is the “Next Act” for struggling shopping centers and malls? - by Anthony Amenta

What better opportunity to create an affordable community than our existing retail centers? Many of these centers already have the criteria for success – a large land area, well-located in suburban locations, flexible zoning and vacancies to enable a complementary mix of uses. The