Jordy Elardo, 27
Associate vice president at Colliers
When Jordy Elardo ran his first marathon in New York this November, it was the first time he’d run a race of any distance. “If I’m gonna do it, I might as well do it big,” he figured.
Elardo has a similar attitude when it comes to his work as a leasing broker at Colliers, where he was promoted to associate vice president in the firm’s New York office earlier this year.
Among the deals he completed this year was a 12-year, 50,000-square-foot lease at 55 Water Street for telecom company MetTel. The deal stemmed from an assignment Elardo was on when he joined Colliers in 2019, when MetTel was looking to lease out an industrial building it owned in Queens. The relationship paid off. “I fell into this industrial building in Queens that ultimately became a 50,000-foot tenant rep assignment,” he said.
Another big deal was his first big assignment after the COVID lockdowns, for fintech company Alloy, which had grown rapidly during that first year. Alloy ended up signing a lease for 44,000 square feet in the spring of 2021. “I remember having the final walk-through with the C-suite, and they had all never met each other in person,” Elardo said. “Because it was a fintech company that scaled incredibly fast. They grew when that tech boom happened, so they had never met each other. It was all on Zoom.”
Elardo credits that early COVID period, when he showed up to empty offices day after day, for helping build relationships with colleagues that later turned into opportunities.
He also had the benefit of knowing what he was getting himself into. Elardo’s father is an industrial broker with CBRE in Baltimore, so he grew up around the business. And both his parents continue to be a resource, with Dad in the business and Mom used to hearing the ins and outs of deals.
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve called them on the way to the subway, and just rattled off whatever for five minutes and then be like, ‘Alright, gotta go,’ ” Elardo said. “But they get it; they’ve lived it for 50 years.”
