An effective real estate solution is the product of an understanding of the needs of the business, the characteristics of the property, the surrounding community and the terms of the real estate agreement. Years of corporate portfolio management provide our team with a unique "user" perspective of the driving forces behind real estate decisions and the important physical, financial and operational aspects of the best solution. As the second highest investment most companies will make and its impact on its highest investment (people) it is important to understand the salient foundations for evaluating and selecting real estate.

Representative Work of Team Members

Long Island

• Washington Mutual, Long Island regional headquarters - site selection
• Nikon, North American headquarters - site selection
• New York State Insurance Fund, Long Island headquarters - site selection
• New York Islanders and Dragons, Corporate headquarters - site selection
• NeuLion, Inc., Corporate headquarters - site selection
• CA, World headquarters, Islandia - site selection, rezoning, master planning, new construction, municipal incentives, financing support
• CA warehouse, Hauppauge - site selection
• Bank of America (Fleet Bank) regional headquarters - site selection, planning support
• Bank of America (European American Bank) regional headquarters - site selection, planning support

North America, Overseas and Portfolio

• European headquarters, Datchet, United Kingdom - site selection, site assemblage, rezoning, master planning, construction
• North American call center, Tampa, Florida - North American cities analysis, site selection, municipal incentives
• North American regional headquarters - site selection, municipal incentives, development consulting in Massachusetts, Virginia and Texas
• 1031 exchange, Lisle, Illinois - lease buyout and acquisition of 240,000 SF building
• Off shore call centers, Hyderabad, India; Chennai, India; Prague, Czech Republic - regional cities analysis, site selection, municipal incentives, master planning
• Over 2 million square feet of disposition work including:
  - Plano, Texas - 150,000 SF sublease
  - Chertsey, United Kingdom - 50,000 SF sublease
  - Chicago, Illinois - 85,000 SF lease buyout
  - Santa Clara, California - 90,000 SF sale
  - Ismaning, Germany - 40,000 SF sublease
  - Paris, France - 40,000 SF sublease
• Merger planning including combining three multi-billion dollar companies and several hundred locations