How do you contribute to your community or your profession?
Besides being a broker, I am also an ordained Pastor and founder of Evidence Gospel Kingdom Church, Bronx, New York, and enjoy serving my community with
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
4 Bryant Park was a very significant transaction for me and our whole team. Our client was a large institution (JPMorgan) and we had several
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
The first loan I ever did was for a client with a portfolio of three NNN-leased fast food restaurants in Queens. He took a chance on a young, hungry mortgage broker because
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
There has not been just one project or deal that was a “game changer”, every deal has taught me lessons I will need to further advance
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
The land swap deal we orchestrated between the NYC Sanitation Department, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and City University of NY was
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
526 Union Ave., a 27,000 buildable s/f development site on the Northside of Williamsburg, two blocks south of McCarren Park. Even though this was not
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
Facilitating in moving Pret-A-Manger’s North American headquarters from 853 Broadway to 30 Irving Pl. has been a game-changing assignment in my career. The requirement was
What led you to your current profession?
I have always been drawn to real estate. I remember going to my grandparents real estate office in Nanuet NY. I would spend hours playing with the keys
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
Before moving back to New York, my colleagues in Atlanta and I won the agency for Peachtree Center and The Marquis Tower, a 2.4 million s/f project and the city’s largest downtown
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
I am right now in the midst a project particularly meaningful to my career. I spent over a year identifying and acquiring four separate development sites on one block in East Flatbush, and we are now
How do you contribute to your community or your profession?
In my free time, I’m a volunteer firefighter with the Malverne Fire Department where I actively respond to 911 emergency calls along with
Which project, deal, or transaction was the “game-changer” in the advancement of your career?
I have had the opportunity to work on multiple types of community development and tax credit transactions in my career, but most notably, New Markets Tax Credit transactions have had the biggest impact.