Cushman & Wakefield has expanded the US facilities management services executive team with two hires.
Scott Offermann joins the firm as a managing director while Gary Graham joins as a director. Offermann will serve as US critical operations manager and Graham will serve as US director of energy management.
Offermann most recently served as manager, Americas, for a software client of C&W. Prior to this latest move, he held positions with international distribution, manufacturing, retail and national health care organizations. He brings 25 years of facilities and critical operations experience including managing nearly 500,000 square feet of data center space, distribution, manufacturing, lab environments, emergency power plants, primary substations, building infrastructure and business critical operations.
Graham brings 30 years of experience helping clients assess, develop and implement energy and sustainability programs. He Graham spent 11 years with JLL as SVP in the energy and sustainability services practice, where he led JLL to four ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year awards.
He's also worked with Johnson Controls, Southern California Edison, Edison Source, Northern States Power and PG&E Energy Services. Graham is based in Chicago.
| CBRE has been appointed exclusive leasing agent for 920 Broadway by the property's owner, KLM Equities. KLM recently purchased the 100,000-square-foot building from the Carlyle Group and ClearRock Properties. David Kleinhandler, Zachary Freeman, Michael Politi and Zak Snider will market the building's five available floors—each spanning 6,500 square feet—for lease. KLM is investing more than $10 million in capital improvements at the property, which sits between 21st and 22nd streets. The renovations have begun and are slated for completion by the end of the third quarter. “920 Broadway sits in the heart of the Flatiron District and is surrounded by upscale retail, first-class restaurants and a host of high-tech corporate neighbors,” says KLM Equities' Zachary Kleinhandler. “This is a great opportunity for corporate tenants to work in a newly renovated building in Manhattan's most exciting neighborhood.” “We are excited to re-introduce 920 Broadway to the brokerage community,” adds David Kleinhandler, brother of Zachary Kleinhandler. “KLM's extensive expertise in the high-end residential sector will surely rub off on this Midtown South gem.
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Colliers International has expanded its retail division with the addition of 28-year industry veteran Patrick Breslin, who has rejoined the organization as an executive managing director. He will focus on both New York City and the global market.
Previously the global head of Studley's retail practice, Breslin has transacted on more than 8.5 million square feet of retail real estate, with an aggregate value of more than $7 billion.
Prior to joining Studley, he served as president of retail at Grubb & Ellis. He also has served as retail group president of GVA Williams, the predecessor firm to Colliers International. Breslin also was previously a senior executive in the CB Richard Ellis retail group.
GRS Group has nabbed Matthew McGovern for its national leadership team. As a director, McGovern will join two members of GRS Group's national leadership team based here—Mark Halloran and Sahar Ghavami, both directors at GRS. McGovern boasts over 20 years of experience in assessment and technical due diligence. Prior to joining GRS Group, he spent nine years at Nova Consulting Group, where he was a SVP of the capital markets group. Before that, he was a VP at LandAmerica Commercial Services. McGovern was part of the team that founded National Assessment Corp. in 1996.
Continuing its crusade against overly aggressive landmarking efforts by the city, REBNY has issued a new report indicating that the practice is an impediment to the creation of housing.
The analysis shows that of all the new housing created citywide over the last decade, less than one half of one percent was within landmark districts. More specifically, out of the 206,819 total new housing units constructed citywide from 2003 to 2012, 17%—or nearly 35,000 units—were affordable. Of those, only .29% (100 units) were built on landmarked properties, according to the report. Those units all were built in the Bronx and Manhattan, there were no new units of affordable housing constructed on landmarked properties in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island.
“REBNY is working closely with the administration to help execute its plan for the creation of 80,000 new affordable housing units over the next ten years, but unnecessary barriers and delays to developing housing must be forgone to make this possible,” says Steven Spinola, REBNY president. “This study shows the inhibiting effect landmarking has on the creation of new housing. As we move forward with the administration's plan, the city's approach to designating historic districts must carefully consider the impact of landmarking on affordable housing, job creation, and economic development.”
Adds Councilman David Greenfield, chair of the NYC Council Committee on Land Use, “This study supports the concerns I have raised in recent Land Use Committee hearings that landmarks preservation and the lack of affordable housing cannot exist in a vacuum. I am confident that with the new leadership at the Landmarks Preservation Commission we can strike the proper balance between building affordable housing while continuing to preserve the rich history of our city.”
Richard Anderson, president of the New York Building Congress, notes, “The Building Congress believes the first and greatest priority for the new Landmarks Commission Chair is to analyze and revamp the process surrounding the designation of historic districts. Part of that analysis, which should be done in close consultation with the City Planning Commission, must focus on the substantial cost to the City and its future when large chunks of the City are declared largely off-limits to economic development and new housing.”
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