Phoenix Rising: Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Jeff Rosenblatt, Post Kent Swig
By Daniel Geiger August 14, 2012 7:45 am
reprintsBy 2010, with the company on the verge of collapse, Mr. Rosenblatt left the firm.
He still had ties at Newmark (NMRK), which by then was known as Newmark Knight Frank. Mr. Rosenblatt remembers that David Falk, president of Newmark Knight Frank’s New York operations called him and offered him a position back at the firm.
“David is really one of the good guys in this business and when he called me, I just felt like I had had a lot of success at the firm and that it would be great to go back,” Mr. Rosenblatt said.
In some ways, heading back to his old firm felt like starting all over again. Because his ability to broker transactions had stagnated at Helmsley-Spear, it would take him months of work to reboot his pipeline of deals.
“It was kind of like coming back to working out after laying off for a while and getting out of shape,” Mr. Rosenblatt, who is a fitness buff, said. “You know what you have to do, you know the work you have to do, and that it’s going to take a certain amount of time to see results, and you just go out there and do it.”
As Mr. Rosenblatt’s recent deals reflect, he has muscle memory for leasing.
