Spotlights

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Joe DiPompeo of Structural Workshop

Joe serves as president of Structural Workshop, which was founded in February of 2004. Joe has experience in all aspects of structural engineering, structural analysis, inspections, and design of a large variety of types of structures and materials. Joe also has extensive experience in real estate due diligence and forensic engineering.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Ron Fanish of Rainbow Restoration of Westchester

Ron is always on the cutting-edge of restoration technology. Most recently, he led Rainbow’s adoption of laser cleaning technology. This update has had a number of positive effects: the organization is even more efficient and effective, offering a solution that’s safer, better for the environment, cost-effective, and has unbeatable precision.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Tristan Schwartzman of Goldman Copeland

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings is a top environmental priority in the Greater New York City area. To that end, Tristan Schwartzman has led the Energy Services team at Goldman Copeland to complete energy audits and retro-commissioning projects for over 70 million s/f of commercial and institutional properties.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Tammy Jones of Basis Investment Group

As Co-founder/Vice-Chairman of Basis’s BIG Foundation, Jones remains dedicated to creating a pipeline of women and diverse groups into commercial real estate, and is committed to creating a more diverse real estate ecosystem by increasing capital access for MWOB firms and introducing underrepresented youth to wealth-building opportunities in the industry.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Harold Bordwin of Keen-Summit Capital Partners, LLC

Although it sounds like the punch line to a joke, in 2023, Harold Bordwin masterfully closed the sale of 3,450 acres in the Mojave Desert. This sale resolved a decades-long litigation. Through meticulous mediation and negotiation skills, he navigated disputes amongst, on the sell-side, two litigating parties and a receiver, and between them, on the one hand, and a buyer, on the other hand. Among the challenges that he helped resolve was the refusal of title companies to insure title.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Jonathan Kaufman Iger of Sage Realty

As CEO of Sage, Jonathan Kaufman Iger develops and oversees Sage’s corporate strategy, operating strategy, and investment initiatives. Most recently, Jonathan directed the launch of several member experience initiatives; Sage Connected, Sage Services, Sage Social, and Sage Passport (which grants members access to every Oasis amenity space across the Sage Collection).

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Camille Renshaw of B+E

Founding B+E, the first tech-driven brokerage platform for net lease real estate. With offices in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Tampa, Charlotte, Dallas, Orange County and San Francisco, their proprietary process affords greater speed, unrivaled transaction efficiencies, and stronger asset value, allowing virtually anyone to confidently trade net lease real estate.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Bob Knakal of JLL

Bob created The Knakal Map Room, a unique platform that presents a groundbreaking map featuring details of all Manhattan developments, including those under construction as well as planned and potential sites.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Brad Cronin of Cronin & Cronin Law Firm, PLLC

Due to initiatives implemented by Brad Cronin, our firm is able to respond quickly to struggling sectors of the real estate market to provide much needed tax relief. During and post Covid those initiatives resulted and continue to result in substantial tax reductions for the most impacted properties.

2023 Commercial Real Estate Visionaries: Howard Leiner of Arbor Realty Trust

Leiner’s team won a Fannie Mae DUS Technology Partner award in Q2 2023 for their work in developing new real estate lending application programming interfaces (APIs) for secure government-sponsored agency data exchange.