Lockwood Publications has signed a ten-year lease for 4,500 square feet at 3743 Crescent Street in Long Island City, Queens. Lockwood shares a building currently occupied by the Vespa Queens Piaggio Dealership as well as di Domenico + Partners, Architects and Landscape Architects—the latter having performed the interior design and fit-out of the space. Lockwood has been a family business since 1872 and a niche publisher of several trade and consumer magazines focused on coffee, tea, and tobacco. In moving to Queens, “We wanted to become a …

As a venture capitalist in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, Douglas Elliman commercial broker Louis Puopolo became adept at recognizing the futuristic value within a vision.

Involved with raising funds for film and television for 12 years, Puopolo learned to understand that profit, particularly from creative projects, could take some time. That is if the public ever came around on the content.

But the Internet bubble exploded around the turn of the century and by mid-decade, Puopolo decided it was time for a change.

The real estate industry, ironically in the midst of the next bubble, had a particular pull for him, but most of all it was an area where he found all of the skills he had acquired perfectly transferable.

Rockrose Development Corp. announced a long-term retail lease with The Mandell School at The Archive, Rockrose’s luxury residential building in Manhattan’s West Village.

Former CBRE EVP Jay Luchs is joining NGKF’s retail division under Neal Golden to cater to the firm’s national and international retail clients.