NEW YORK CITY—The Real Estate Board of New York announced winners of the 2017 Sales Brokers Most Ingenious Deal of the Year Awards at the sales brokers committee's 74th annual cocktail party on Tuesday night at Club 101 on Park Avenue.

Mary Ann Tighe and Ken Meyerson of CBRE, and Jonathan Serko of Cushman & Wakefield, were honored with the first prize, the Henry Hart Rice Achievement Award. Along with CBRE's Brendan Herlihy and Cushman & Wakefield's Richard Serko and Ed Donnery, they worked with 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East and the 1199SEIU Benefit Fund for Health and Human Service Employees to consolidate the union operations into one building, signing a lease at George Comfort & Son's property located at 498 Seventh Ave. The space was formerly occupied by the media investment company GroupM.

Over 12 years, the brokers identified and negotiated the leases for 1199's two affiliated, independent groups, for 180,000 square feet for the healthcare workers' union and 400,000 square feet for the benefit fund. The brokers addressed the requirements of 400,000 union members and resolved the expiring lease at 330 West 42nd St., while accommodating growth needs. The union has long owned the building at 310 West 43rd St. which previously housed their headquarters.