Spotlights

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.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Mark Stumer of Mojo Stumer Associates

Mark Stumer oversaw our new residential project, Fort Pond House. This modern project exemplifies our firm’s core values of exceptional design from exterior to interior, with great attention to detail. This remarkable house beautifully blends modern design and natural surroundings, leaving a lasting impact on our organization and the community.

2023 Women in CRE: Esther Reizes-Lowenbein, Esther Reizes & Co.

What recent project, transaction, or accomplishment are you most proud of? The office asset is looked down upon nowadays, as the banks and private investors deem it unstable. I recently facilitated the closing of a class A office building. I was

2023 Women in CRE: Dawne David-Pierre, Moody Nolan

What recent project, transaction, or accomplishment are you most proud of? I am incredibly proud of our team’s pro-bono work in the local community. We recently undertook a feasibility study for CHiPS, a food pantry in Brooklyn that

2023 Women in CRE: Joanne Bobb, Bobtek Electrical Corp.

What recent project, transaction, or accomplishment are you most proud of? Bobtek Electrical Corp. has become a go to for property managers seeking fast responsive high quality work in volume across their portfolios. Our local law electrical

2023 Women in CRE: Linda Merenguelli, HUB International

What recent project, transaction, or accomplishment are you most proud of? Negotiating insurance programs for the real estate industry is an important part of my job. This year has proven the most difficult in placing insurance for a variety of reasons forcing extremely difficult discussions