Category: Spotlight Content

CREG Featured Company: About Schroder & Strom

CREG Featured Company: About Schroder & Strom

July 29, 2025
Founded in 2000, Schroder & Strom has built an unparalleled reputation and a team of 10 attorneys with well over 150 years of combined expertise in the area of real estate tax law.
CREG Featured Company: About Merritt Environmental Consulting Corp.

CREG Featured Company: About Merritt Environmental Consulting Corp.

July 29, 2025
Merritt Environmental Consulting Corp. (MECC) was established in June of 2009 after being part of a larger engineering firm for almost 20 years. The focus of the company is to assist lending institutions, attorneys, real estate investors, and property owners with environmental concerns. Today, MECC has offices
CREG Featured Company: About Raise the Roof Logistics

CREG Featured Company: About Raise the Roof Logistics

July 29, 2025
Raise the Roof Logistics is a project management company specializing in roof lifting projects through an affiliation with LIFTEX Roof Lifting. LIFTEX raises an existing roof in any commercial building to create taller clear heights that meet modern building requirements. This patented expansion process has revolutionized
CREG Featured Company: About Jody Fisher PR

CREG Featured Company: About Jody Fisher PR

July 29, 2025
For brands and businesses that want to grow and maintain a positive reputation, public relations (PR) is an essential tool. Combining positive news coverage with social media, direct outreach and thought leadership, PR writes the history of your organization that
CREG Featured Company: About Cancos Tile & Stone

CREG Featured Company: About Cancos Tile & Stone

July 29, 2025
For over 70 years, Cancos Tile & Stone has been a leading name in the tile and stone industry, delivering premium products and unparalleled service to commercial developers, architects, and designers. With 12 showrooms strategically located throughout New York, Cancos has established itself as
Join NYREJ in Celebrating Women in CRE!

Join NYREJ in Celebrating Women in CRE!

July 29, 2025
We’re excited to announce that the New York Real Estate Journal’s annual Women in Commercial Real Estate Spotlight will be published in our August 26 issue—and the nomination portal is now open!
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Alice Chen,GFP Real Estate

2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Alice Chen,GFP Real Estate

June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? I’m most proud of my work on SoMA at 25 Water St. — now the largest office-to-residential conversion in the U.S. completed to date. I’ve been part of the project from day one: identifying the building, planning the redevelopment, raising capital and closing the purchase.
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Levitt Yaffe, RXR Realty

2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Levitt Yaffe, RXR Realty

June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? A few months into my job as a senior property coordinator, my assistant property manager was transferred to another property. A month later my tenant services coordinator quit and then my property manager temporarily took leave.
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Matthew Crawford, Blank Rome LLP

2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Matthew Crawford, Blank Rome LLP

June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? In commercial leasing, I’m proud to have negotiated over 50 leases nationwide, including for Equinox, Zuma, TAO Group, Chica, Yardbird, SixPoint Brewery, Brilliant Earth, JD Sports, Vuori, Aritzia, and landlord-side deals for Acadia Realty Trust.
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Joseph Heins, Phillips Lytle LLP

2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Joseph Heins, Phillips Lytle LLP

June 24, 2025
What is your top advice for someone just starting out in your field? Your reputation is your most valuable asset - this includes both your professional reputation (the quality of your work) and your personal brand (the quality of your person). It can take a long time to build your reputation, so be patient.
2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Alexander Smith, OPEN Impact Real Estate

2025 Ones to Watch - Rising Stars: Alexander Smith, OPEN Impact Real Estate

June 24, 2025
What recent professional milestone or project are you most proud of, and why? I am most proud of brokering the $52.6 million sale of Rising Ground’s 28-acre Leake & Watts campus — leading the nonprofit through a transformational mission-aligned real estate strategy. Through comprehensive analytics and end-to-end execution across sales, leasing and relocation,