SCHMOOZERS!

We had such a busy Thursday with our first Breakfast and Schmoozeand the renaming of Sears Tower that we couldn’t fit in all of our photos from the former! Among the 300 attendees: RFR Realty’s Richard Farly, AIG Global Real Estate’s Jay Pesci (not to be confused with Joe), and Rhodes Associates’ Heather Grayson. Heather’s soon off to Indonesia to recruit a head of development for an Indonesian company, but hopes to fit in a little side trip to Bali.
Arent Fox’s Karen Candreva, Reznick Group’s Darren Lis (two of our great sponsors!) and Troutman Sanders’ Sonia Bain. Could we call Karen a snowbird attorney? In addition to a significant office lease restructuring for a large NYC landlord, she tells us she has a role in the sale of a mixed-use portfolio in Florida for an institutional client that acquired the properties as the foreclosing lender.
NYCREW meets Bisnow: UBS’s Leila Larijani, Wells Fargo’s Christine Chipurnoi, and Sklar Realty Group’s Lydia Sklar. Lydia just returned from a “beyond fabulous” week-and-a-half long trip to Cannes, while Leila gets to relax through renovations to her Connecticut home. Luckily for her, the contractor doesn’t have much work these days and has been quite expeditious.

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