Category: Spotlight Content

While running his commercial HVAC cleaning business (AmeriCoil), Anthony Longo recognized an opportunity to provide businesses with better quality air filters at a lower price by manufacturing his own air filters in house. Longo Filters, headquartered in Farmingdale, New York is Long Island’s only manufacturer of air filters.

Derek Peterson’s visionary leadership at Soter Technologies is evident in his creation of FlySense®, the world’s first vape and bully detection technology. His innovation addresses crucial safety concerns, making educational and corporate environments safer and healthier, exemplifying his commitment to advancing technology for a more secure world.

Jonathan’s expertise and visionary approach to design are shown through his ability to create excellent, beautiful architecture while maximizing the zoning and functionality. He takes advantage of every square inch of available and allowed square footage to create visually stunning buildings, which is a very sought after skill in the highly regulated NYC market.

Adelaide’s visionary status is exemplified by her ability to adapt and innovate in response to market trends. Recognizing the tightening market, she orchestrated a strategic pivot from sales-only to a comprehensive real estate platform that included leasing of commercial and residential properties, broadening her service offerings and diversifying revenue streams.

Recently, Jonathan spearheaded the implementation of a robust data science discipline to Olive Tree Holdings’ market growth prediction, improving the firm’s fundamental metrics for investment selection and underwriting accuracy. Analysis that used to take weeks can now be done in minutes, giving Olive Tree a competitive edge and precise outlook.

Cory recently joined Matthews and already made a significant contribution. In one month, he recruited over a dozen high-producing, well-established agents to the New York office and has vigorously promoted Matthews’ culture, resources, and support. He took a new opportunity, jumped in headfirst, and made an immediate impact.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.