NEW YORK CITY—Newmark Grubb Knight Frank took a big step this year: it opened a Brooklyn office. In this first installment of a three part series on the borough, GlobeSt.com talked EXCLUSIVELY with the head of that office, managing director Whitten Morris, in this first part of a series.
GlobeSt.com: While Brooklyn is heating up, it's been on industry radar screens for some time. So why did NGKF make this move in 2016?
Whitten Morris, managing director, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: A lot has happened there. Certainly there's residential development and home sales have been going on for a long time but the number of commercial projects coming online is really going to change the borough.
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
