2025 Breakthrough Awards Breakfast

INVESTMENT AWARDS

Retail Transaction of the Year

• Recognizing a breakthrough commercial real estate transaction involving retail properties, such as shopping centers, malls, or individual retail assets, this award considers factors such as creative marketing strategies, tenant recruitment, sales performance, market impact, and innovation.

Industrial Transaction of the Year

• Honoring an exceptional commercial real estate transaction involving industrial properties, such as warehouses, logistics centers, or manufacturing facilities, considering factors such as deal size, tenant profile, market impact, and innovation.

Residential/Multifamily Transaction of the Year

• Highlighting an outstanding transaction in the multifamily and/or residential sector, considering factors such as deal size, unit/rental price, occupancy rates, market impact, and innovation.

Life Sciences Transaction of the Year

• Recognizing an exceptional commercial real estate transaction involving life science-focused properties, including laboratory, life science office and campus, R&D, and biotech spaces, considering factors such as deal size, creative deal packaging, partnerships, market impact, and innovation.

Office Transaction of the Year

• Highlighting an outstanding transaction in the office sector, considering factors such as deal size, price per square foot, occupancy rates, market impact, and innovation.

Mixed-Use Transaction of the Year

• Highlighting an outstanding mixed-use transaction considering factors such as deal size, price per square foot, occupancy rates, market impact, and innovation.

PROJECT & DEVELOPMENT AWARDS

Sustainability Project of the Year

• Sheds light on a commercial real estate transactions that demonstrate outstanding commitment to sustainability, energy efficiency, green building practices, and environmental responsibility.

Adaptive Reuse Project of the Year

• Celebrating a project aimed to repurpose a building that is designed to, or has resulted in a positive impact for the greater real estate community.

Design & Development Project of the Year

• This award shines a spotlight on the year’s most remarkable commercial real estate development project that exhibits excellence in design, construction, planning, sustainability, and economic impact.

Public-Private Partnership of the Year

• Recognizes an exemplary collaboration between public entities and private-sector partners that has resulted in transformative real estate development. This award honors strategic vision, community benefits, economic stimulus, and long-term value creation driven by innovative partnership.

INNOVATION AWARDS

Tech Advance of the Year

• Celebrating a team that has created a cutting-edge technology to empower and advance the real estate industry.

Innovation in Residential

• Celebrating a residential real estate project that has introduced innovative solutions to meet the needs of modern living.

Innovation in Industrial

• Awarded to an industrial real estate project that has demonstrated significant innovation in design, logistics, or operational efficiency.

Innovation in Office

• Recognizing a commercial real estate project that has set new standards in office design, functionality, or tenant engagement.

Innovation in Retail

• Celebrating a retail real estate project that has introduced innovative solutions to transform consumer expectations and experiences.

TEAM AWARDS

Architecture Team of the Year

• Honors an architecture firm or team whose work in commercial real estate has demonstrated design excellence, visionary planning, and transformative placemaking. Projects considered should reflect innovation, sustainability, and a lasting impact on the built environment.

Law Firm of the Year

• Awarded to a law firm within the real estate industry that has exemplified best-in-class leadership, expertise and services.

Top Financier of the Year (Banks)

• Recognizing a team that demonstrated unmatched adeptness, skillfulness and an innovative approach to navigating inflation, rising interest rates and what has been an especially difficult year for the industry.

Top Financier of the Year (Non-Banks)

• Honoring a non-bank financial institution that refused to sit back on the sidelines and instead remained one of the most active firms in the industry.

Marketing Team of the Year

• Awarded to a team demonstrating best-in-class marketing skills and programs that tackle the complex issue of the real estate market, resulting in company growth and faster lease ups.