NEW YORK CITY—“Brooklyn is on fire, there are tenants foreverything.” Those were the words of DavidShorenstein, co-principal of SilvershoreProperties Thursday during a panel discussion on theborough at the B'nai B'rith real estate division monthly luncheonin Midtown.

The group discussed Kings County's renaissance but among thearea's commercial real estate experts, it's clear that Brooklyn'srise has been meteoric enough to now enter some new phases. After all, if there are tenants for everything, what vacant spaceis left?

“There's been a Manhattanization of the Brooklyn market,”asserted Christopher Havens, VP, commercial realestate, Aptsandlofts.com. “Brooklyn has this thinggoing on and everyone there thinks that they are part of it.”

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Rayna Katz

Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.