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New York, NY - December 16, 2013 - (RealEstateRama) -- New York State Supreme Court Justice Melvin L. Schweitzer has issued two rulings in favor of landlord Getty Properties Corp. in a gas station holdover dispute, holding the defendants in criminal and civil contempt. Defendants in the case consist of 19 limited liability companies (the LLCs), Robert Del Gadio, who is the principal of, and the attorney for, the LLCs, and Frank Mascolo. The landlord was represented in the proceedings by Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. founding partner Warren A. Estis and partner Howard W. Kingsley.

New York, NY - June 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Nordstrom, Inc. has finalized an agreement with Extell Development Company to build Nordstrom’s first full-line store in New York City. This new flagship store will open along Manhattan’s bustling 57th Street corridor at 225 West 57th Street, between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, in the Columbus Circle area of Manhattan. The 285,000 square-foot store is expected to open in 2018

NEW YORK, NY - June 28, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle was selected by Extell Development as the exclusive leasing agent for One Hudson Yards. The developer tapped the company to provide a full range of commercial office leasing services for the 56-story, 1.78 million-square-foot Class A office building.

NEW YORK, NY - June 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed six transactions totaling 17,105 square feet of commercial office space for William Macklowe Co. at 400 Madison Avenue. The firm completed four new, direct deals and two lease extensions at the Class A, 200,000-square-foot commercial office building.

NEW YORK, NY - June 14, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- One year after an innovative building retrofit project, the Empire State Building is ahead of plan and has exceeded its year one energy-efficiency guarantee by 5 percent, saving $2.4 million and establishing a commercial real estate model for reducing costs, maximizing return on investment, increasing real estate value, and protecting the environment.

New York, NY - May 23, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rose Associates, the exclusive marketing and leasing agent for The Ellington, announced today that a full-service leasing office has been opened at the residential building located at 260 West 52nd Street in Manhattan.

NEW YORK, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - May 16, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle today announced the firm has made two strategic hires to strengthen the firm’s Capital Markets research platform. Marisha Clinton has joined the firm as a Director of Research for Capital Markets to broaden the firm’s investment market analysis in the United States. Clinton, who is based in New York, will work closely with the firm’s Capital Markets experts across the nation to create and effectively leverage sales and financing research. In addition, the firm has also named Brady Titcomb Research Manager for Multifamily.

NEW YORK, NY - May 15, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle announced that Peter Riguardi, president of New York operations, will be honored by the New York AIR Society at its annual The Sky’s The Limit benefit on May 17

NEW YORK, NY - April 5, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle announced the New York office market remained relatively flat in the first quarter of 2012. Average asking rental rates rose slightly as more expensive office space is added to the market, and overall vacancy rates increased marginally. The addition of new space to Midtown South, which remains one of the tightest markets in the country, has opened up some breathing room for tech tenants clamoring for space in the submarket.

New York, NY - March 30, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Benjamin M. Lawsky, New York State’s Superintendent of Financial Services, has named Brian D. Obergfell to the newly formed State Charter Bank Advisory Board. Mr. Obergfell is a senior partner at Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP and a member of the firm’s executive and strategic committees.

NEW YORK, NY - March 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has hired Mark Marasciullo as a Managing Director in New York. He will serve on the firm’s national investor client team — a group of established facilitators and relationship managers for Jones Lang LaSalle’s largest institutional investor clients.

NEW YORK, NY - March 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has named John Wheeler, managing director, to oversee its Lower Manhattan office. He will also continue to provide brokerage and advisory services to some of the firm’s most significant clients.

New York, NY - March 12, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Rose Associates, the New York-based full-service real estate firm, announced today that Robert Werner has been promoted to Managing Director. Werner, 46, joined Rose in 1999 and has been acting as a Portfolio Director within the company’s residential management division.

NEW YORK, NY - March 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has been selected by IAC as the exclusive global real estate advisor for the company’s real estate needs worldwide.

NEW YORK, NY - February 9, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle’s New York office was selected by co-owners Silverstein Properties Inc. and the California State Teachers' Retirement System as exclusive commercial office leasing agent for 1177 Avenue of the Americas. The company will be responsible for commercial office leasing and marketing at the Class A, 1 million-square-foot trophy office building.

NEW YORK, NY - February 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thirty-two teams of Wall Street titans clashed today in an epic table tennis battle to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City at the Fourth Annual Tournament of Champions Pong in Grand Central Terminal.

BROOKLYN, NY - January 25, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jade 8 (www.jade8condos.com), an exclusive collection of just eight “Green” condominiums in Brooklyn’s fashionable Gowanus neighborhood, has opened its doors to the public with one contract already signed.

NEW YORK, NY - January 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed a combined sublease and new direct lease transaction totaling 57,364 square feet of office space for Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America with SL Green Realty Corp. at 750 Third Avenue, also known as Grand Central Square. The reinsurance firm signed a 10-year sublease for 40,500 square feet and a 10-year direct lease for 16,864 square feet at the Class A, 857,354-square-foot office building.

NEW YORK, , NY - January 18, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed two transactions totaling 25,274 square feet of office space for SL Green Realty Corp. at 120 West 45th Street, also known as Tower 45. DeVry College of New York signed a 10-year lease expansion and extension for 19,397 square feet. Horton Point LLC signed a new five-year lease for 5,877 square feet at the Class A, 397,188-square-foot office building.

MELVILLE, NY - January 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle continues to grow its Long Island presence with the addition of Daniel Flynn and Joseph Lopresti as vice presidents with responsibility for tenant representation and agency leasing services. Lopresti will focus his efforts primarily within the Nassau County office market while Flynn will serve the real estate needs of nonprofit organizations throughout Long Island and Queens.

NEW YORK, NY - December 28, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed two deals, totaling 12,075 square feet, for building owner Tech 4 LLC, a subsidiary of Tritec Real Estate Co., at 4 Technology Drive in East Setauket, N.Y. OCLI Realty LLC acquired a 5,156 square-foot medical condominium unit for an undisclosed amount, and Stony Brook Children's Services signed a long-term lease for 7,819 square feet at the Class A, 40,000-square-foot medical office building.

NEW YORK, NY - December 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- In light of rapid evolution in the life sciences sector, Jones Lang LaSalle conducted a comprehensive study to indentify the top markets for real estate expansion for life sciences companies focused on pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical device technology, agricultural biotechnology and biofuels. The firm’s Life Sciences Cluster Report ranks 16 emerging and established clusters in the United States according to relevant criteria to gauge where leading-edge companies are positioning their facilities to gain competitive advantage.

NEW YORK, NY - December 6, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The retail sector continues to edge tentatively toward recovery, buoyed by a stellar start to the holiday shopping season, as retailers, landlords, and investors capitalize on pent-up consumer demand and shopping centers remain a top investment category. However, several obstacles stand in the way of sustained progress in 2012, according to Jones Lang LaSalle’s North America Year-end Retail Outlook. The sector will most likely remain in a holding pattern for at least the next three quarters as the U.S. elections approach, the European debt crisis heightens and lackluster job growth fuels uncertainty.

NEW YORK, NY - November 23, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has been selected by SJP Properties as exclusive leasing agent for 11 Times Square, a 1.1 million-square-foot, LEED Gold-Certified commercial tower situated at the corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue in New York’s Times Square. Jones Lang LaSalle will oversee leasing and marketing for the building’s office space.

NEW YORK, NY - November 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Jones Lang LaSalle has completed a new, direct lease for WeWork with Extell Development Co. at 175 Varick Street. The coworking firm signed a 15-year lease for 75,000 square feet at the Class A, 130,240-square-foot office building.