Spotlights

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Teyana Chin, FXCollaborative

If you have had a mentor in your career, who was it and what did they teach you?  Tim Milam, managing director at FXCollaborative is my mentor, and has been a big influence in my life. He has taught me to…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Melanie Strieder, FXCollaborative

If you have had a mentor in your career, who was it and what did they teach you?  I have been fortunate enough to have quite a few mentors over the past several years, and I believe all of them have similar qualities and ethos that I look for in an advisor. I was taught to…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Tara Bono, EmPower Solar

What was your most notable project 2017?  After several years of planning and development, we completed a…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Barbara Kavovit, Evergreen Construction

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2017?  The best decision I made in 2017 was for Evergreen to move to a bigger office and build it with materials that create a…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Sara Rubenstein, Continental Ventures

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2017?  I have been working on an assemblage and the development of a new condominium project that is going to be a…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Ksenia Tretiakova, Leslie E. Robertson Associates

What trends are you seeing so far this year in your field?  Recently, there has been a lot of emphasis on incorporating newer technology within the construction and real estate industries. At LERA, our brilliant computational engineering team has been…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Jaclyn Peranteau, Prime Engineering, PC

If you have had a mentor in your career, who was it and what did they teach you?  Thomas Filazzola, PE. Tom was my manager at my first engineering job, training and eventually mentoring me in the Engineering field. Since then, he has become both a personal friend and trusted colleague, in addition to…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Erin Crowe, FXCollaborative

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2017?  My second daughter was born last February and provides a lens to reflect on my construction milestones in 2017…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Arlene Maidman, Townhouse Management

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2017?  Spearheading Townhouse Management’s efforts to redevelop and develop over one million s/f of mixed-use properties in…

2018 Women in Real Estate and Construction Services: Courtney Janto, Buckingham Properties

What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2017?  In 2017 I received the NYSCAR Commercial Deal of the Year Award. This award was for an 8,000 s/f restaurant that is going in downtown Rochester. The restaurant is a…