WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ—More than 500 leaders of the commercial real estate industry gathered at Monmouth University's imposing Woodrow Wilson Hall last week for the Kislak Real Estate Institute's Leadership Excellence Award Dinner, which honored two key influencers in the industry, while raising money for scholarships for promising students in the real estate education program.
Murray Kushner, chairman of The KRE Group, received the “Leadership Excellence Award,” and James W. Hughes, dean of the Edward Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy at Rutgers University, received the Institute's “Service to the Industry Award.”
Kushner's KRE Group is the successor to SK Properties, which he co-founded in 1979 with his father Joseph Kushner and Eugene Schenkman. The full-service real estate company has more than 100 full-time employees and a real estate investment portfolio of more than 9,000 apartment units and six million square feet of industrial and office space.
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Steve Lubetkin is the New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com. He is currently filling in covering Chicago and Midwest markets until a new permanent editor is named. He previously filled in covering Atlanta. Steve’s journalism background includes print and broadcast reporting for NJ news organizations. His audio and video work for GlobeSt.com has been honored by the Garden State Journalists Association, and he has also been recognized for video by the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has produced audio podcasts on CRE topics for the NAR Commercial Division and the CCIM Institute. Steve has also served (from August 2017 to March 2018) as national broadcast news correspondent for CEOReport.com, a news website focused on practical advice for senior executives in small- and medium-sized companies. Steve also reports on-camera and covers conferences for NJSpotlight.com, a public policy news coverage website focused on New Jersey government and industry; and for clients of StateBroadcastNews.com, a division of The Lubetkin Media Companies LLC. Steve has been the computer columnist for the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, since 1996. Steve is co-author, with Toronto-based podcasting pioneer Donna Papacosta, of the book, The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional. You can email Steve at [email protected].
