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Last November Chase Welles and Bertrand de Soultrait of SCG Retail were in Cannes, France, attending MAPIC, the annual European retail leasing event. Both Welles and de Soultrait are fluent in French and they were there to connect with European brands and retailers interested in the US market. The SCG Retail team is now ready to announce the first of several new relationships established from MAPIC. The team is nationally representing the French retailer The Kase.

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s William Cohen, principal, and Ryan Kass, senior managing director, have been assigned the leasing responsibilities at W&H Properties’ 1333, 1350 and 1359 Broadway. Cohen and Kass already handle leasing at the Empire State Building and One Grand Central Place. The NGKF team at the three Broadway buildings will include Neil Rubin, director of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, an existing member of the team, and Andrew Weisz, a recent NGKF hire from Cushman & Wakefield. “Billy and Ryan have had great success at the Empire State Building and One Grand Central Place,” said Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings LLC, which supervises the W&H Properties portfolio of nine Manhattan Pre-War Trophy office buildings. “They understand our vision for these Pre-War Trophy properties, and they have helped make this vision a reality.

In one of the largest Manhattan leases of 2012 for an educational center, Colliers International has arranged a long-term, 85,000 s/f expansion and relocation on behalf of The Speyer Legacy School on Manhattan’s West Side. The school for intellectually advanced students, grades K-8, will be moving to a two-building campus at 400 W 59th Street and 925 Ninth Avenue, both owned by The Brodsky Organization. Josh Kuriloff, vice chairman, Jodi Roberts, managing director, and Andrew Braver, associate, of Cushman & Wakefield, represented the landlord in the transaction. Alex Jinishian, vice chairman, and Phil Amarante, senior managing director, of Colliers International, represented the tenant.

When Jason T. Greenstein and Daniel L. Levine met at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank in 2001 as young trainees, they fast became friends, despite one being a diehard Boston Celtics fan and the other being fiercely loyal to the New York Knicks. This friendship led to them partnering up on a key endeavor, running the 2004 New York City Marathon together. 12 years later, the team executed 41 transactions measuring over one million square feet in 2012 alone, working on deals from Shanghai to San Francisco. The foundation for their success so far, say the duo, has been their ability to forge longstanding relationships with the people who represent their client companies.

Leading Marcus & Milichap broker Peter Von Der Ahe and his team are joining Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a national institutional apartment advisory and brokerage firm. “Peter and his team will play a critical role in the expansion of our national platform through his New York-based client relationships and in our further penetration of the vast New York market locally,” said IPA national director Brian Murdy. IPA was formed just over two years ago as a special division of Marcus & Millichap dedicated to serving the needs of institutional and major private investors.