With more than 35 years of experience and more than seven million square feet of transactions completed, Weisman primarily focuses on industrial tenants and owners, but has also been a key player in the transformation of emerging areas such as West Chelsea and the Meatpacking District on the office front. Some of his notable achievements include the leasing of the 75,000-square-foot Chelsea Arts Tower, as well as the leasing of the 255,000-square-foot 450 West 15^th St. to media, fashion and creative tenants.

Weisman tells GlobeSt.com that he has always gravitated to the “fringe-y” parts of the city. “I didn’t like the idea of competing with every other broker in New York for office space in Midtown,” he says. “I always did the Far West Side and I always interested in the areas that became Meatpacking and became West Chelsea.”

At the same time, he says the neighborhoods are now presenting challenges for start-ups trying to find an affordable foothold in the city, leading new users to seek out alternative space in the outer-boroughs. “So far, it’s been hard to find,” he says. “The office space pricing in Meatpacking us higher than they are in Midtown. You can pay $70 or $75 a square foot for office space upstairs in old wooden buildings in Meatpacking, and that is certainly commensurate with Midtown. The companies that are media-oriented that need to do that are looking for alternatives, and right now, they are hard to find. Lately, my travels have taken me out to Brooklyn and to the Bronx,” he says, noting that he is currently working on a 28,000-square-foot deal in the North Bronx and a 20,000-square-foot transaction in Brooklyn. “I have always had an industrial bent right from the beginning, so I have always looked for industrial-type uses.”

Rosenthal, who has arranged the assemblage of over 30 building sites in Manhattan, including the site for the Sony Building, Park Avenue Tower, 520 Madison Ave., 919 Third Ave. and 9 W. 57^th St., has primarily been active in the parking business as a broker and a consultant for over 40 years. Miller, another 40 year veteran of the business, has closed transactions aggregating more than $1 billion, and will focus on investment sales of office buildings, apartments, shopping centers, hotels and retail condominiums.