Construction & Design
Mayor calls for design build legislation
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Agency officials and members of the de Blasio Administration gathered at the Whitehall Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry to urge the Governor to sign
Deals & Dealmakers
WHO’S NEWS: Madison International Realty announces Dino Dell’Orto has joined its Equity Capital Markets division.
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Savills announced today that it has added Peter Hennessy, an industry veteran with more than two decades of experience in tenant representation
Featured
How pop-up shopping transformed the retail sector in 2019
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Research released by Cushman & Wakefield has dubbed 2019 the “year of the pop-up,” as scores of digitally native brands broke into bricks-and-mortar
Lawsuits
421a Builder pays back wages to workers
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Attorney General Letitia James, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, and 32BJ SEIU President Kyle Bragg yesterday distributed more than $400,000 in
Deals & Dealmakers
State goes after Chang after 50 hotel workers are fired en masse
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Sam Chang and his McSam Hotel Group, which owns the Radisson Hotel New York Wall Street, is being investigated by the State Department of Labor following
Deals & Dealmakers
Fairstead continues to grow US apartment portfolio
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Fairstead has launched an investment vehicle targeting affordable housing General Partner interests with the acquisition of the GP interests in a 1,568-unit
Deals & Dealmakers
Industry leader Burt Resnick dead at 83
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Burt Resnick, one of the real estate industry’s great leaders died on Dec. 14 at the age of 83. Mr Resnick passed away peacefully at home in Rye, NY, leaving
Retail
RKF brings Brazilian luxury interior design store to Midtown East
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RKF announced that it has secured a 3,267-square-foot location for Brazilian luxury interior design brand Ornare’s first store in New York, at 150 East 58th Street.
Deals & Dealmakers
Vanbarton nears full occupancy at renovated Penn Plaza office tower
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Education technology company Chegg has signed a deal that will bring 31 Penn Plaza to nearly full occupancy. Vanbarton Group announced that the California-based
Deals & Dealmakers
WHO’S NEWS: Commercial appointments and promotions
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Jim Amorin, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, of Austin, Texas, will begin his one-year term as president of the Appraisal Institute on Jan. 1. The Appraisal Institute’s
Construction & Design
Two Trees unveils Brooklyn waterfront plan
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Two Trees Management has unveiled plans for River Street, a mixed-use development anchored by a waterfront park in North Brooklyn. Designed by Bjarke Ingels
REBNY Watch
REBNY mourns loss of Burton Resnick
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Throughout the Real Estate Board of New York’s long and storied history, we have been fortunate to work with and learn from the real estate industry’s