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CBRE Promotes Reicher to Vice Chairman
Aug 6, 2008

CB Richard Ellis said today that Craig Reicher, a 21-year commercial real estate veteran, has been promoted to vice chairman, joining the ranks of the firm’s executive leadership in the New York Tri-State Region.  Reicher focuses on developing and implementing creative real estate strategies for a wide variety of New York City’s leading owners and corporations.  Over the course of the last five years, he has negotiated close to 1 million square feet on behalf of Bloomberg L.P. and led the team that renewed Fried Frank’s 380,000-square-foot lease at One New York Plaza.  He has also represented Marsh & McLennan, Guy Carpenter, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Empire Blue Cross, The Conference Board, Duquesne Capital, The Legal Aid Society, Kaye Scholer and Jackson Lewis in assignments in Manhattan and across the country.  Reicher’s brokerage practice also includes landlord representation and investment sales work.  In March, he was part of the team that closed the $525 million sale of 120 Park Avenue on behalf of the seller, Altria Group, together with the leaseback of 100,000 square feet at 120 Park by Philip Morris International and Altria. 

 
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