Breakthrough Awards Breakfast

Deals & Transaction Award Finalists

Retail Transaction of the Year

• Saint Laurent’s lease at Aurora Capital Associates and William Gottlieb Real Estate’s 70-74 Gansevoort Street – Manhattan, New York

• Kushner, Fortress Investment Group, GreenBarn Investment Group, and Rithm Capital’s $415 million financing of Monmouth Mall – Eatontown, New Jersey

• RXR‘s 14,600-square-foot expansion at Pier 57, represented by Lee & Associates – Manhattan, New York

Industrial Transaction of the Year

• Cushman & Wakefield’s 61,000-square-foot lease for Otto Environmental Systems at 807 Bank Street – Brooklyn, New York

• Lone Star PACE and PeachTree Group for securing $13.4 million in C-PACE financing to retrofit a 500,000-square-foot industrial facility – Wichita Falls, Texas

• Savills’ 1.4 million-square-foot lease for Chedraui USA to develop a state-of-the-art distribution center at 12430 Fourth Street – Rancho Cucamonga, California

Residential/Multifamily Transaction of the Year

• BEB Capital, Totem, Ailanthus and SK Development for securing $143 million in financing for a mixed-use development at 737 Fourth Avenue – Brooklyn, New York

• Berkadia for arranging $400 million in financing through Madison Realty Capital for the construction of Six Fisher Island – Fisher Island, Florida

• The CenterCap Group for advising BH Management on its sale to Pretium in one of 2024’s largest private M&A transactions in real estate – nationwide

• Shoreham Capital, Bridge Investment Group and Berkadia for securing $157 million in financing through Fannie Mae for the acquisition of Mason at Van Dorn – Alexandria, Virginia

• Wells Fargo for being the buy-side M&A adviser and lead financing provider for Blackstone’s $10 billion acquisition of AIR Communities, including a $2.65 billion term loan and $4 billion in SASB CMBS transactions – nationwide

Life Sciences Transaction of the Year

• Breakthrough Properties for securing a 15-year, 230,000-square-foot lease with Pfizer Oncology at Torrey View – San Diego, California

• Longfellow Real Estate Partners for a lease deal in establishing Solvias operations in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park – Morrisville, North Carolina

Project Awards Finalists

Sustainability Project of the Year

• Bank of America for financing The Helios Project, a transformative solar-powered 186 unit affordable housing development – Henrico County, Virginia

• Wells Fargo for structuring and bookrunning a $450 million CMBS offering to refinance The Durst Organization’s Sven, a LEED Platinum-certified, 71-story mixed-use development – Long Island City, New York

Adaptive Reuse Project of the Year

• Colliers for the sale and conversion of 152 West 36th Street from vacant Class B/C office space to a state-of-the-art self-storage facility – New York, New York

• DeSimone Consulting Engineering for converting 685 Fifth Avenue into Mandarin Oriental’s first exclusive residential property – New York, New York

• GFP Real Estate and TPG Real Estate for acquiring and transforming 222 Broadway from an office tower into an 800-unit residential building – New York, New York

Design & Development Project of the Year

• The Olayan Group, Rockwell Group, Gensler and Snøhetta for the transformation of 550 Madison from a single-tenant landmark into a multi-tenant, wellness-focused office tower – New York, New York

• Pacific Retail Capital Partners for developing District Galleria, a $2.5 billion transformation of a regional shopping mall into a dynamic mixed-use, transit-oriented district – White Plains, New York

Public-Private Partnership of the Year

• Bank of America for financing Luna Park, a senior-focused, 281 unit affordable housing development – New York, New York

• Newmark for their investigation of semiconductor sector assets across New York State, producing a pivotal report that guides policy decisions and accelerates investment in the industry – nationwide

• RXR and the City of New Rochelle for the opening of Two Clinton Park – New Rochelle, New York

Tech & Innovation Awards

Tech Advance of the Year

• Cherre for several key partnerships with leading real estate firms to increase the platform’s data management and analysis capabilities.

• HqO for their Real Estate Experience (REX) Platform that enables real estate owners and operators to optimize their spaces by providing critical information around the health and performance of a tenant’s experience in a physical space.

• Measurabl for the global expansion of their real estate sustainability platform.

• Placer.ai for its Nationwide Office Building Index, and retail and dining data, that have provided invaluable insights on foot traffic data at a pivotal time for real estate and urban planning.

• Savills for the development of Savills GPT, a groundbreaking generative AI tool created in collaboration with OpenAI.

• VTS for scaling its tenant experience solution, VTS Activate, by over 50% in the past year, now totaling more than 1.5 million users across 29,000 tenant companies across the globe.

Innovation in Residential

• Avdoo & Partners Development for the development of Bergen, a residential building designed by Taller Frida Escobedo – Brooklyn, New York

• DeSimone Consulting Engineering for their structural solutions in the design of Olympia DUMBO – Brooklyn, New York

• The Domain Companies for the launch of 420 Carroll, a new luxury residential tower and  the first building developed through the Gowanus Neighborhood Rezoning – Brooklyn, New York

• Silverstein Properties and Cantor Fitzgerald for their development of 44-01 Northern Boulevard, a multifamily residential project featuring 25% affordable housing, 25,000 square feet of retail, and high-end amenities, including co-working lounges, a chef’s kitchen, and a gym and yoga studio – New York, New York

• Tankhouse for the development of 144 Vanderbilt Avenue, a groundbreaking residential development – Brooklyn, New York

• Tishman Speyer for the development of Edgemere Commons, delivering modern, affordable housing to the Far Rockaways – New York, New York

• Two Trees Management Co. for their new luxury residential tower at One Domino Square, part of their 2M SF waterfront development promoting world-class amenities centered around community and wellness – Brooklyn, New York

Innovation in Industrial

• Alterra IOS for the redevelopment of 6110 Passyunk Avenue from a 5-acre Industrial Outdoor Storage site into a state-of-the-art soil remediation facility – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Greek Real Estate Partners, Advance Realty Investors, and PGIM Real Estate for the Linden Logistics Center, a 2.5-million-square-foot Class A warehouse complex – Linden, New Jersey

Innovation in Office

• The Olayan Group, Rockwell Group, Gensler, & Snøhetta’s reimagining of 550 Madison into a LEED Platinum, WELL Gold-certified multi-tenant office – New York, New York

• RXR for the RXO Program, a tenant experience program that offers a variety of services and amenities to tenants of RXR office properties.

• Sage Realty for the launch of Sage Connected, a mobile app that has redefined tenant and member interaction.

Team Awards Finalists

Top Financier of the Year (Banks)

• Bank of America
• Bank OZK
• Citigroup
• Goldman Sachs
• JPMorgan
• Morgan Stanley
• Wells Fargo Commercial Real Estate

Top Financier of the Year (Non-Banks)

• Kennedy Wilson
• KKR
• Maxim Capital Group
• Nuveen Green Capital
• RXR
• Starwood
• TYKO Capital

Law Firm of the Year

• Cadwalader
• Fried Frank
• King & Spalding
• Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP’s Real Estate Practice Group
• Rosenberg & Estis, PC

Architectural Team of the Year

• Gensler
• KPF
• Pickard Chilton