NEW YORK CITY-Following the high-profile move of Arthur Mirante from Cushman & Wakefield to lead Avison Young’s New York City office, the Canadian-based commercial estate services company is aggressively expanding into the Manhattan market, making eight new hires effective immediately, GlobeSt.com has learned. The company has tapped Grubb & Ellis veterans Vincent Carrega, Neil C. Helman, Jon Epstein and Charles B. Kingsley as principals to lead the firm’s investment sales division.
The company has also hired Michael Berk, Steve Rooney, Jason Mazin and Miriam Halpert—also from Grubb—to work in the firm’s new Manhattan office. Berk and Rooney will serve as financial analysts; Mazin will take the reigns as marketing coordinator; and Halpert will join as an investment sales broker.
The moves, Helman tells GlobeSt.com, were in the works as the news about Mirante made waves throughout the New York real estate community. “I can certainly say that Arthur coming on board certainly made our decision,” he says. We’ve realized that it was clearly that right decision to make. He’s so well respected in the industry, and obviously both Arthur and our group had to be having conversations pretty much simultaneously based on the announcements. It only solidified our choice of having Avison Young as the right platform to go to.”
Formerly an executive vice president at Grubb, Helman—known for his involvement with high-profile development sites and property sales such as Cabrini Medical Center to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and 555 Sixth Ave. to Stonehenge Partners—will collaborate with Carrega, Epstein and Kingsley on creating a platform for Avison encompassing all property types throughout the Tri-State market, with a specific focus on Manhattan.
“We are hoping to continue to work with a lot of the clients that we’ve worked with in the past, and going forward, we offer them a tremendous amount more,” he says, noting that the company’s network is “tremendous,” spanning the US and Canada. “One of the things that was very attractive to us about coming to Avison was the fact that it’s a culture here that isn’t about being the biggest shop, but being the shop that has the best quality. Everybody that we’ve spoken to around the country really seems to be really well-versed in their fields, in their demographic and has a grasp of the business at hand. It’s a culture where we feel that we will work with everybody regardless where we are, and we will be able to execute business to the highest degree.”
Last week, the firm also snatched up high-profile Grubb brokers Michael Gottlieb and Martin Cottingham to serve as principals. In total, the addition of Avison’s New York City office marks the company’s 13th location outside of Canada, and its 12th also recently opened in San Francisco. Over the past three years, Avison Young has grown from 11 to 30 offices and from 300 to more than 900 real estate professionals across Canada and the US.
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