Spotlights

Year in Review 2018: Ariel Aufgang, Aufgang Architects

What was the best decision that you made in 2018 and how did it impact your business? The decision to stay diversified within our area of expertise has proven very valuable.  We are experts in the world of multifamily housing and hotels but even within these segments there is much diversity.

Year in Review 2018: Jeffrey Beal, Real Estate Solutions

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018? Condemnation appraisals for Fire Island homeowners.

Year in Review 2018: Thomas Gears, SWBR

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018? Our greatest professional accomplishment in 2018 was being recognized with a Trifecta Award from the Zweig Group as a Hot Firm, Best Firm to Work For, and a Marketing Excellence award.

Year in Review 2018: David Firestein, SCG Retail

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018? Opening the Roastery for Starbucks on December 14.

Year in Review 2018: John Proscia, ACC Real Estate Services, Inc.

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018? This year ACC was appointed as property manager for four large commercial office buildings that were placed into receivership. We managed the buildings from the appointment of the receivership to the sale of each building, and continue to manage two of the buildings post sale. 

Year in Review 2018: Billy Procida, Procida Funding & Advisors, LLC

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018? Our most notable project this year was the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House. Being able to restore a historic landmark so vital to a community was both economically and spiritually satisfying.

Year in Review 2018: Karen Scanna, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018? I’m continuing to work on Essex Crossing in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, an almost 2 million s/f project that will include 1,000 new residences — more than half of which are affordable — along with retail and office space.

Year in Review 2018: Patrick Curtis, One Realty Services, Inc.

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018? Sale of Windswept Marina including Coral Restaurant.

Year in Review 2018: Aaron Soury, A Neumann & Associates, LLC

What market trend(s) will impact your industry in 2019? Our company, a professional mergers & acquisitions and business brokerage firm, sees continued growth in our industry for 2019, benefiting buyers and sellers.  Currently, interest rates are still low for buyers, and for sellers, there is still currently favorable taxation. 

Year in Review 2018: Jeffrey Keitelman, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2018? Stroock’s national real estate group spearheaded many notable and exciting deals over the past year.  One deal we’re particularly proud of as a firm is our representation of biopharmaceutical leader Pfizer Inc. in its new global headquarters in one of Manhattan’s most historic and innovative developments: Hudson Yards.