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2024Top 25ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024 — Top 25

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024 — Top 25

From the booming e-commerce and logistics sector, to the ongoing, long-lasting growth of multifamily … to the rethinking of office complexes amid a still-uncertain future … the impact of commercial real estate on business in New Jersey is incredibly far-reaching.

Picking the leading influencers is challenging.

From the state’s biggest developers to its most important service providers, from key public officials to top-notch brokers, the 2024 ROI Influencers: Real Estate list honors the best of the best in the sector — those whose influence will be felt for years to come.

 

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ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 1 Steve Pozycki

Steve Pozycki CEO SJP Properties Steve Pozycki made a name for himself — and his appropriately named firm, SJP Properties — decades ago. The creation of the 1.5-million-square-foot Waterfront Corporate Center in Hoboken — a three-building, mixed-use complex with a top-tier tenant roster — helped...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 2 Wasseem Boraie; Sam Boraie

Wasseem Boraie; Sam Boraie Principals Boraie Development You start with Iconiq777, the 340-multifamily building in the heart of Newark that many feel is the premier building in its class in the state. Add in the fully leased 50 Rector Street and the 25-story 333-unit...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 3 John Saraceno; Jonathan Schultz

John Saraceno; Jonathan Schultz Co-founders & managing principals Onyx Equities In yet another year of huge projects, two stand out: Playing the lead role in the transformative mixed-use and transit-oriented development effort by Hackensack Meridian Health at Metropark Station in Iselin — and keeping...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 4 Chris Paladino

Chris Paladino President New Brunswick Development Corp. Here’s the incredible thing: The transformative HELIX development and the game-changing Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center (both in New Brunswick) are just two of the many projects DEVCO is leading around the state.

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 5 Jonathan Kushner

Jonathan Kushner President Kushner Real Estate Group Completion of the third and final tower (60 stories) at Journal Squared, an effort that has played a pivotal role in revitalizing that section of Jersey City — combined with its efforts to save Pompidou Centre x Jersey...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 6 Laurent Morali; Nicole Kushner Meyer; Michael Sommer

Laurent Morali; Nicole Kushner Meyer; Michael Sommer CEO; President; Chief Development Officer Kushner Cos. They broke ground on the transformative (and $500 million) Monmouth Mall project and Pier Village still is rolling along. But don’t forget their numerous other efforts, including The Journal in...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 7 John Schreiber; Tim Lizura

John Schreiber; Tim Lizura CEO; SVP, real estate & capital projects N.J. Performing Arts Center The reimaging of NJPAC’s 12-acre campus (a $336 million initiative that recently broke ground) will bring hundreds of new residences along with shops, restaurants, new outdoor gathering spaces and...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 8 Brian Barry

Brian Barry Senior vice president LCOR He played huge role in making Hoboken Connect, the promised-to-be transformative mixed-use, multiphase transit-oriented development project at the train station that has been on the drawing board for decades, a present-day reality. It will be one of state’s...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 9 Jose Cruz

Jose Cruz Senior managing director JLL At some point you have to start putting deals in two categories: The ones Cruz and his incredible capital markets team at JLL get done — and all the rest. No one is as prolific.

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 10 Tony Coscia

Tony Coscia Partner Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf He deserves so much credit for getting the Gateway Tunnel project to the finish line as the head of Amtrak, but don’t underestimate how impactful he is on so many other real estate deals as he...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 11 Ed Russo

Ed Russo CEO Russo Development He was No. 1 on the list in 2022 — and don’t misunderstand: He and his firm are just as important and impactful today. The September opening of Vermella Broad Street in Newark is just one of numerous projects...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 12 Mike Sacro

Mike Sacro Senior vice president, market officer for NY-NJ region Prologis In addition to its massive industrial portfolio, the company is advocating for more rooftop solar projects that will allow its customers to reduce their emissions, benefit local communities by gaining access to renewable...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 13 Jeff Milanaik

Jeff Milanaik Northeast region partner Bridge Industrial They are still a huge player in the industrial sector — a role they are expanding into the Pennsylvania market while staining maintain strong N.J. presence (see Bridgeport II in Perth Amboy).

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 14 Adenah Bayoh

Adenah Bayoh Founder & CEO Adenah Bayoh and Cos. Her projects, whether it be for affordable housing or new restaurants options, always are based on the public good. And always are ones that few others would be willing to take on. She is an...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 15 Jack Morris

Jack Morris CEO Edgewood Properties In addition to the work Edgewood does up and down the state, his commitment to the $750 million Jack & Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, a 12-story, 510,000-square-foot facility in New Brunswick, will be his legacy.

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 16 Debra Tantleff

Debra Tantleff Founding principal Tantum Real Estate The new chair of the N.J. Builders Association continues to be a role model for so many for her consistent support of affordable housing, veterans housing, women in the industry, the next generation of real estate professionals...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 17 Reid Brockmeier; Becky Button

Reid Brockmeier; Becky Button Co-managing directors & co-principals (Morristown office) Gensler From the Headquarters Plaza remodel in Morristown to the Iris office complex in Montclair, from the Red Bulls new training facility in Morris Township to the HMH’s Ambulatory Care Center at ON3 in...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 18 David Minno

David Minno President Minno & Wasko From multifamily to mixed use, from adaptive re-use to transit-oriented, from commercial to hospitality, Minno & Wasko is everywhere — and doing everything with an eye toward sustainability.

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 19 Jacquelyn Suarez

Jacquelyn Suarez Commissioner N.J. Department of Community Affairs The release of the highly anticipated guidelines for each municipality’s affordable housing obligations — an effort to address a need for an additional 150,000 low- and moderate-income units in the next 10 years — was a...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 20 Kevin O’Toole

Kevin O’Toole Chairman Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J. From the recently released vision for a new Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport — one that aims to match the incredible Terminal A — to the announcement that the Hoboken PATH station will be...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 21 Alberto Garofalo

Alberto Garofalo N.J. market president Bank of America As if the announcement that Bank of America is taking a 550,000-square-foot lease in Jersey City (a seismic event for office in the state) wasn’t enough, BofA is one of the largest commercial lenders in the...

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 22 Calvin Souder

Calvin Souder Founding partner Souder, Shabazz and Woolridge A next-generation leader among real estate lawyers in Newark whose time has come. He’s involved in many of the city’s biggest deals, while his firm’s influence is quickly making a name for itself nationally.

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 23 Dan Loughlin

Dan Loughlin International director, director of Life Science Practice Group JLL His fingerprints are on some of the most impactful life science transactions ever completed in New Jersey. And, with the sector booming again in the state, his influence will only grow.

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 24 Gretchen Wilcox; Bridget Wilcox; Wesley Wilcox

Gretchen Wilcox; Bridget Wilcox; Wesley Wilcox CEO; Partner; Partner G.S. Wilcox & Co. Wilcox, forever an example — and an inspiration — for females in the commercial real estate sector, is now paving the way for next generation of leadership at the company.

ROI Influencers: Real Estate 2024: Top 25 — No. 25 Ralph LaRossa

Ralph LaRossa Chair & CEO Public Service Enterprise Group. A utility guy? On this list? Absolutely. The ability to have the power to handle the increased demand for data in projects — any development project — will be key moving forward, but especially so...

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