Spotlights

2017 Year in Review: Wanda Pearson, RSA Mortgage Brokerage LLC

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017? RSA Mortgage Brokerage achieved 35 percent growth by the end of Q3 2017 over our entire 2016 volume. This reflects our response to…

2017 Year in Review: Christopher Nicholson, Genesis Real Estate Advisors, Inc.

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017?   Genesis has been very busy on many fronts. We sold a bowling alley, leased up new construction in Farmingdale, sold an abandoned property on Veterans Hwy. to become a fitness center and…

2017 Year in Review: Heather Conley, Heather Conley Photography

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017? Creative collaboration with a new client on a 40 s/f corporate interior renovation transformation project from progress through final results. The spaces were designed to…

2017 Year in Review: Matia Nikolovienis, Cohen & Perfetto LLP

What trends will impact your business in 2018?  The proposed new tax cuts will positively impact our business as this will bring new capital investment in the real estate market by investors, developers and users. This in turn will lead to…

2017 Year in Review: Jaclyn Peranteau, Prime Engineering, PC

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017? I would like to say my involvement in the Stony Brook University Indoor Practice Facility Project.  It is a $9.5 million project and will serve the campus community…

2017 Year in Review: Marc Landis, Phillips Nizer LLP

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017? Completion of deployment of initial $100 million equity fund through leveraged acquisition of $250 million in Manhattan and Brooklyn multifamily transactions, and kickoff of…

2017 Year in Review: Mark Bahiri, Emerald Creek Capital

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017? This year we funded our 250th loan transaction since inception. The vast majority of our loans are brought to us by

2017 Year in Review: Ira Zlotowitz, Eastern Union Funding

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017? One of the driving forces behind our success in 2017 is the expansion of our QTS (Quotes and Term Sheets) Banking Division. To meet surging demand and assure the best service in the…

2017 Year in Review: Rudy Frank, AKF Group

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017? 2017 marked the completion of Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS)’s new office complex in Lawrence Township, NJ. AKF was an integral partner in…

2017 Year in Review: Nancy Doon, VHB

What was your most notable project, deal, transaction or professional achievement in 2017? I served as project manager for the Greater East Midtown Rezoning Environmental Impact Statement, the largest rezoning in Manhattan since Hudson Yards in 2004. With the rezoning approved in August 2017, substantial new construction projects will begin to take shape. Over the next two decades, development resulting…