(Save the date: RealShare New York comes to the Grand Hyatt, New York, NY, October 9.)

NEW YORK CITY-Before the days of the Internet and social media, retail developer and industry veteran Aaron Malinsky used to take his market research to the streets—literally. “When we were studying the neighborhood, we would walk through on garbage pick-up day and look through the cans to see where people were shopping,” he tells GlobeSt.com. “That’s the difference between our mentality of being a family business and being a corporate entity.”

Now carrying on that same entrepreneurial spirit, Malinsky launched Curbcut Urban Partners, a family-owned, commercial real estate development firm wholly focused on revitalizing underutilized sites throughout the New York/New Jersey metropolitan region with new mixed-use projects.