Name: William Hesse
Company: Aries Deitch and Endelson
Location: 110 South Central St., Hartsdale, NY
Birthplace and year: New York, NY, this millennium
Family: Wife, Jennifer; son, Scott; daughter, Stacy Reilly
College: Clark University, Honors Economics
First job outside of real estate: Chase Bank, Trust Administrator
First job in real estate or allied field: Robert Martin Company, leasing director.
What do you do now and what are you planning for the future? Shopping center leasing, management, sales, tenant representation. Now and forever.
Hobbies: Golf, travel, N.Y. Jets
Favorite book: "Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabot-Zinn
Favorite movie: "Casablanca"
Key to success: Never give up or give in. The deal is not done until you are 30 feet underground.
If you had to choose another vocation what would it be? Writer, lyricist, poet.
What noteworthy transactions or deals from this year best exemplified key market trends or shifts? I would like to say there was an outstanding transaction for me this past year but 2024 was more a culmination of long-term relationships, most of which continued to transact. Deals were smaller in many cases but we saw robust leasing both on the agency side as well as on the tenant side.