Category: Spotlight Content

2025 Year in Review: Gwen O’Shea, Community Development Long Island

2025 Year in Review: Gwen O’Shea, Community Development Long Island

December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025?  A highlight of my 2025 was watching two of CDLI’s newest affordable housing developments near completion. In partnership with Park Grove Realty, we created 33 units at Baldwin Commons, and with Conifer Realty, 228 units at 159 Main in Hempstead.
2025 Year in Review: Ami Eller, GPARENCY

2025 Year in Review: Ami Eller, GPARENCY

December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025?  GPARENCY worked with a bridge lender looking to expand its pool of money to continue lending. We succeeded in arranging a $30 million warehouse line of credit for this client. GPARENCY navigated the lender’s existing offers,
2025 Year in Review:  Gabriella Uccellini, The United Group of Companies, Inc.

2025 Year in Review: Gabriella Uccellini, The United Group of Companies, Inc.

December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025?  United Group is humbled and honored to announce our project, The Six, located in Troy, NY, received best new multifamily project of the year, for 2025 by CRBRA. The Six will be United’s newest Class A multifamily development
2025 Year in Review: Ronnette Riley, Ronnette Riley Architect

2025 Year in Review: Ronnette Riley, Ronnette Riley Architect

December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025?  As I approach the end of my tenure as president of the National Society of American Registered Architects (SARA), founded in 1956, I wanted to highlight what this dedicated group of architects has achieved in the past two years. We have reinvigorated
2025 Year in Review: Stephen Preuss Sr., RIPCO Real Estate / Investment Sales

2025 Year in Review: Stephen Preuss Sr., RIPCO Real Estate / Investment Sales

December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025?  For $18.62 million, which is $156 per buildable s/f, our team sold an approximately 20,000 s/f development site located at 64-11 Queens Blvd. in Woodside, Queens. We also worked alongside RIPCO’s debt & structured finance team
2025 Year in Review: Jeffrey Ulrich, CetraRuddy

2025 Year in Review: Jeffrey Ulrich, CetraRuddy

December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? This has been a very exciting period for CetraRuddy, with growth in our office and significant projects.
2025 Year in Review: Gregg Cohen, Cresa

2025 Year in Review: Gregg Cohen, Cresa

December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year?  Even in the middle of a contentious mayoral election with a clear front-runner for months, the
2025 Year in Review: Kate Keller, Keller Augusta

2025 Year in Review: Kate Keller, Keller Augusta

December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? 2025 marked NYC’s shift from hesitation to selective confidence. The most telling
2025 Year in Review: Dean Wang, Emerald Creek Capital

2025 Year in Review: Dean Wang, Emerald Creek Capital

December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? Coming into the year we saw optimism with federal tailwinds including calls for easing monetary
2025 Year in Review: L.D. Salmanson, Cherre

2025 Year in Review: L.D. Salmanson, Cherre

December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? 2025 was the year the NYC market finally shifted from talking about AI to operationalizing it,
2025 Year in Review: Barry Schmidt, Schmidt Construction Consulting

2025 Year in Review: Barry Schmidt, Schmidt Construction Consulting

December 23, 2025
What transaction, project, or key moment best reflected the direction of the New York CRE market this year? Without question 2025’s key moment was the election of our new mayor. The housing shortage in
2025 Year in Review: Steve Wylder, Safehold

2025 Year in Review: Steve Wylder, Safehold

December 23, 2025
What accomplishment, milestone, project or transaction stood out for you or your firm in 2025? Safehold launched an affordable housing platform this year, in an effort to expand our presence in