Futterman Expands National Retail Service

NEW YORK CITY-Locally based Robert K. Futterman & Associates LLC is expanding around three divisions: RKF Retail Brokerage Services, RKF Retail Property Advisors and RKF Strategic Retailer Services. To fuel the effort, RKF has brought on eight new brokers in the past year, and Mitchell N. Friedel just signed on as executive vice president to head Property Advisors.

The RKF Brokerage Services division is the firm’s core brokerage services. CEO Robert Futterman, heads the unit’s brokerage activity in Manhattan, while David Rosenberg and Barry Fishbach, executive vice presidents, will oversee activity in the outer boroughs and suburban markets in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

RKF Retail Property Advisors will focus on lifestyle retail and mixed-use projects in the national arena and will be headed by Friedel, who was most recently with the Related Cos. He says the division aims to assist owners and developers in “devising the right merchandising mix, positioning or repositioning their projects, and executing these strategies from a leasing perspective.”