Kenneth, Steven and Winston Fisher
Kenneth, Steven and Winston Fisher
Partners at Fisher Brothers
Last year's rank: 43
Kenneth, Steven and Winston Fisher are cousins and partners of the 105-year-old dynasty real estate firm Fisher Brothers.
The company built and manages a portfolio of premier office buildings in New York City, and added more financial and law firms to its tenant roster in the past year. Evercore recently signed for 375,000 square feet at Fisher Brothers’ 55 East 52nd Street. The Consulate General of Japan also signed for 58,244 square feet at 299 Park Avenue, where Fisher started a $20 million capital improvement project, and investment manager Global X Fund signed a 15-year lease at Fisher’s 44-story tower at 605 Third Avenue in Midtown that spans 1.1 million square feet.
Ken Fisher said they are near the end of a multi-year asset renewal program that focused on their lobbies and infrastructure in “a very tech-savvy, but very elegant way.”
“We’re also going to be unveiling our hospitality-based concept called @Ease, which is an in-house hospitality brand that will deliver more amenities to our buildings, including a grab-and-go cafe, catering, access to spa and fitness facilities, and more,” Ken Fisher said.
Fisher Brothers is also gambling in Las Vegas with AREA15, an experimental 250,000-square-foot center in Las Vegas with a “curated collection of experiential and retail tenants.” In September, Fisher Brothers will open the hybrid retail project, with entertainment, event space and more. The firm has signed more than 70,000 square feet of leases for AREA15 since March.
Steve Fisher said the firm started Fisher Capital Investments, which has invested in a new energy-saving battery technology that will help their buildings and others around the city, as well as Titanium Construction Services.
Winston Fisher, who is a co-chair of the governor’s Regional Economic Development Council, said they have always been civically and philanthropically active. He said New York is the greatest city in the world, but it “still needs to be nurtured and cared for.”
“It is a precarious time and in a bad place, and it’s incumbent on everybody to double down and give it that much more to make it great again,” Winston Fisher said.—G.C.
