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developer, he honed his skills in
facilities management, labor and vendor relations, risk management and emergency planning and preparedness.
B6 TOUTS NEWEST
BROKER ON NEW
JERSEY TEAM
B6 Real Estate Advisors has added Peter Cabrera as a director of capital advisory in New Jersey.
The firm, which is growing its property listings in the state, said Cabrera will work alongside
building façade renovations, site and landscape projects.
“Arturo’s extensive interior design expertise coupled with his calm demeanor make him a valuable mentor and strong leader,” said Marlyn Zucosky, director, interior architecture and design of Ware Malcomb’s Princeton and Newark offices. “Arturo’s dedication to our team and clients is apparent in everything he does, and we look forward to his continued growth in years to come.”
Ponciano holds a bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Miami.
CRESA NEW JERSEY
ANNOUNCES FOUR
RECENT ADDITIONS
Tenant advisory firm Cresa has
made four additions to its New Jersey brokerage team, including Mitch Roman and Daniel Brown as principals, and Michael Epstein and Pam Winston as senior vice president and adviser, respectively.
The Rutherford-based group said Roman and
Brown bring
decades of
Development Association, Morris Area Development Group and North Essex Economic Development Committee, Cresa said. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Curry College in Boston.
Brown, meantime, is the founder and former
MICHAELS ADDS VICE PRESIDENT OF CAPITAL MARKETS
The Michaels Organization has tapped Cristhian Codorniu to lead its debt and equity platform for both new development and acquisition opportunities.
The Camden-based residential developer announced recently that Codorniu has joined its team as vice president of capital markets. He succeeded Michael Flanagan, who was recently promoted to executive vice president of development for Michaels’ student living portfolio.
“Cristhian brings an impressive background
Daniel Brown
CEO of TRS Associates Inc., a commercial real estate firm he spearheaded from 1990 to 2020, the news release said. With a career
Peter Cabrera
Yanni Marmarou, a director, specializing
in advising clients on debt and equity placements with a focus on the middle market
that began in 1985 at Helmsley Spear New Jersey, Brown has represented hundreds of office tenants in leasing transactions.
He is the past board chair of the Family & Children’s Association and a founding member of Tuesday’s Children, one of the few remaining charitable organizations tied to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, where he serves on the board of trustees.
Brown holds a degree from the State University of New York at Schulyer.
Epstein joined Cresa after serving for 15 years as CEO and president of a $325 million business services company, the
of investment management, transaction structuring and execution and acquisitions experience to this role and we look forward
space in the region. The move comes as B6 markets some 500,000 square feet of property across Hudson and Union counties with a projected value of $75 million.
“We are very bullish on our continued expansion in the (New Jersey) market with many active listings and recent closed transactions,” said Marmarou, who is spearheading the listings in Hudson and Union.
WARE MALCOMB
PROMOTES INTERIOR
DESIGN MANAGER
Ware Malcomb has promoted Arturo Ponciano, a member of its Princeton- based team, to studio manager, interior architecture and design.
Ponciano, who joined the firm in 2017 as a senior project manager, helps lead
Cristhian Codorniu
experience and
will focus on the
industrial and
office sectors,
respectively.
Epstein,
meantime, is a
longtime business services executive, while Winston joins the team with more than 25 years of experience
in sales, account management and procurement.
“Adding four topflight brokers to our team at this time is a testament to the resiliency of New Jersey’s commercial real estate market,” said Dennis Gralla, managing principal of Cresa New Jersey. “Everyone here
is optimistic about 2021, with major transactions ready to be announced and others in the pipeline.”
In a news release, the firm said Roman is an industrial market specialist with a career spanning
35 years, having joined its team just prior to the pandemic in early 2020. He has participated in more than 1,000 transactions valued at over $900 million, with past clients including GE Capital Portfolio, Penske, PepsiCo, Daewoo and others.
Roman’s professional affiliations include the Commercial Real Estate
news release
said. In his
new role, he
will apply
his extensive
knowledge
of business
operations and
the local market
to growing the New Jersey region’s client base.
The firm added that Epstein is on the advisory board for Net Profit Advisors and a member of the Andersen Alumni Association, having received his bachelor’s degree from Queens College, City University of New York.
For her part, Winston will assist clients by
to him bringing additional partners to Michaels that are interested in investing in high-quality communities across our market segments,” said Mark Morgan, Michaels’ chief operating officer.
Codorniu came to the firm from Parallel Infrastructure, where he served as vice president of finance, according to a news release. Prior to that, he was head of business insights in the investment management group of Lendlease, organizing an investment management platform that focused on telecom and multifamily housing.
Michaels — the nation’s largest private-sector owner of affordable housing and an active owner, developer and manager of military, student and market-rate housing — added that Codorniu’s 10 years of experience at LendLease also included risk and insurance management
and transactional management of privatized military housing.
“I am thrilled to join the Michaels Organization,” Codorniu said. “The core values encapsulated in Michaels teammates are equivalent to the values held in my life and career.
I look forward to being a fellow teammate and excited to learn from them and share my experience for the betterment of the whole organization.”
Codorniu holds a master’s in real estate from New York University and a bachelor’s of business administration from Pace University in New York City. RE
Mitch Roman
Michael Epstein
Arturo Ponciano
and manage the office’s interior architecture
and design studio and manages select projects. He also specializes in repositioning and corporate fit-
aligning corporate strategies with their long-term objectives, the news release said. In addition, she will focus on business
out projects, having managed projects ranging from renovations to new construction, with a background in the design of office, industrial, health care, public, retail and research and development facilities.
His experience also includes
Pam Winston
development and market research.
She holds a bachelor’s in marketing from the University of Hartford.