Most Ingenious Sales Brokers’ Deal Contenders of 2016 Revealed

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NEW YORK CITY—The 15 contenders for the 2016 Sales Brokers Most Ingenious Deal of the Year awards—to be handed down next month by the Real Estate Board of New York—have been revealed. The Bronx and Brooklyn each saw one of the nominated transactions while the remaining 13 were done in Manhattan.

The brokers being considered for the honor as a result of the following sale, lease, and finance deals are Amit Doshi and Lynda Blumberg of Besen & Associates, “Going Out of Business Sale: The Disposition of Lee’s Art Shop on West 57th”–220 W. 57th St.;  Stuart A. Eisenkraft, Daniel S. Kaplan, Edward (Ned) E. Midgley, and Timothy E. Sheehan, CBRE,  “The Remaking of America: Helping Re-Endow the Nation’s Oldest Catholic Media Company”–106 W. 56th St.; David Carlos and Ira Schuman, Savills Studley, “Repositioning Real Estate or Reimaging the Promise Land? How Savills Studley Helped Jewish Theological Seminary Transform its Campus for the 21st Century”–543 W. 122nd St., 3060 Broadway and 415 W. 120th St.;Peter Hennessy, Cushman & Wakefield, Bringing the Galaxy to Flatiron”–162 Fifth Ave.; Andrew Stein, Vicus Partners, “Real Estate Industry Creates New Wave of Charter Schools”–192 E. 151st St., Bronx;

Paul Ippolito, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, “If You Can Make it Here: Securing a New York Headquarters for Intercept Pharmaceuticals at 55 Hudson Yards;” Paul Myers and Ken Meyerson, CBRE, “The Calm During the Storm: The 1MSF Renewal of S&P Global at 55 Water St.;” Brian D. Gell and Laurence P. Briody, Jr., CBRE, “Lighthouse Guild International: Guiding a Nonprofit Through a Sea of Intricacies—and Idiosyncrasies—to Land a New Home”–80 West End Ave.; Michael R. Laginestra and Michael Geoghegan, CBRE, “A Hat Trick for the NHL: New Headquarters, Experiential Retail and a Hockey Rink at Manhattan West”–1 Manhattan West; Paul J. Amrich, Neil V. King, and James Ackerson, CBRE, “Southern Hospitality, New York Style: Putting Atlanta-based Columbia Property Trust on the Map with a True New York Institution – New York University”–222 E. 41st St.;