16B — April 13 - 26, 2012 — Pennsylvania — Mid Atlantic Real Estate Journal
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P EOPLE ON THE M OVE
Adding a valuable perspecitive Conwell joins CBRE as senior vice president
Strong expertise in Marcellus Shale Comm’l. Real Estate Raineri of Hinerfeld Comm’l. earns PA Broker’s License
Philadelphia region. Prior to joining CBRE, Joe was a founding partner and Managing Director for GPX Realty Partners, L.P., the real estate division of GPX Enter- prises, L.P. At GPX Partners, Joe was responsible for over- seeing all aspects of the com- pany’s acquisitions, financing and property leasing. Before joining GPX Realty Partners, Joe was a Vice President at CBRE (and Insignia ESG pri- or to its acquisition by CBRE). During that period he com- pleted significant real estate transactions with companies including: AIG Insurance, Comcast Corporation, GSK, Quest Diagnostics, AMETEK, and TYCO International. Before beginning his suc- cessful commercial real estate career, Joe enjoyed a five year career with the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles and the USFL’s Philadelphia Stars. A graduate of The Univer- sity of North Carolina at Cha- pel Hill, Joseph is a licensed real estate professional in Pennsylvania. ■ PennDot Road/Intersection design, residential design, and commercial site design. Kris has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geoenvironmental Studies from Shippensburg University. K&WEngineers and Consul- tants specializes in providing civil engineering and consult- ing services that include land development / site design, traf- fic / transportation, municipal engineering, comprehensive watershedmanagement, water / wastewater design, environ- mental permitting, landscape architecture and survey. ■ burgh’s significant transac- tions that closed in 2011 in- cluded the UPMC lease of 148,000 s/f, the Restaurant Depot purchase of 13 acres and Cellone’s purchase of 115,000 s/f. Patrick Sentner SIOR, Founding Principal at Col- liers International-Pittsburgh and John Bilyak CCIM, Prin- cipal at Colliers Internation- al- Pittsburgh, also received CoStar Power Broker Awards for Top Industrial Leasing Bro- kers. Bilyak also was awarded a CoStar Power Broker Award as a Top Sales Broker. ■
WAYNE, PA — Joseph Conwell has joined CBRE Group, Inc. (CBRE) as senior vice president in our Wayne, Pennsylvania office. Joe has over 23 years of experience and will be assisting lo- cal, national and interna- tional clients with their com- mercial real estate needs. “We are extremely pleased to welcome Joe Conwell to CBRE. His experience in ten- ant representation as well as property ownership will add valuable perspective to our highly successful TenantAdvi- sory team,” said Bob Walters, Executive Managing Director of CBRE’s six Greater Phila- delphia regional offices. Joe will join Senior Vice President Scott Miller, Senior Associ- ate James Kelley, and Sales Associate Valerija Beares to further strengthen their ten- ant representation capabili- ties throughout the Greater Joseph Conwell
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(Certified Commercial In- vestment Member) courses and SIOR (Society of Indus- trial and Office Realtors) courses. She has earned a PhD in Organizations and Manage- ment, MBA in Information Systems, BA in Computer Science, and BA in English and Education. Ellen engag- es in commercial real estate transactions in Luzerne, Mike Ondra, President of Ondra-Huyett Associates, Inc was thrilled to receive the award and commented, “today’s construction client demands that we build facili- ties faster, at a higher level of quality and complexity and within very tight budgets. We need our suppliers and trade contractors, to team with us to meet those client require- ments. We treat our subcon- tractors professionally and cooperatively and provide the information and work envi- ronment they need to perform safely and well. This results in higher productivity and greater value for the project. It is gratifying that the sub- contractor community recog- nizes the quality management we bring to the job.” Ondra-Huyett has devel- oped some advanced construc- boutique environmental practice more than 22 years ago, one of our goals was to institute a culture where people liked their job and their fellow workers. This recognition served as the affirmation of the dreams we brought with us in 1989.” Robert Fox , the firm’s Man- aging Partner, continued to explain the MGKF culture, “We are always at the cutting edge of new environmental legal issues and we approach each new challenge collectively with ideas from across the firm. This allows everyone to continue to learn and work to their full potential.” In addition to receiving recog- nition as a Top Workplace 2012 and in 2011, MGKF was also recognized previously by the Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children Detention Products Inc., Tan- ner, Ala.
Lackawanna, Susquehanna, and Bradford counties. She also has strong exper- tise in Marcellus Shale com- mercial real estate and has launched the website www. marcellusproperty.com. Ellen is available to assist clients in building real estate portfolios and to consult on commercial real estate projects. ■ tion systems for teaming with subcontractors, expediting the work, dispersing payment as quality work is performed and operating safe and ef- ficient construction job sites. TheASATask Force on Ethics in the Construction Indus- try established the awards program’s rigorous criteria, including use of a standard subcontract whose provisions reflect the best practices in- corporated into the ASA-en- dorsed ConsensusDOCS 750 subcontract agreement and highly favorable evaluations from at least three specialty trade contractors, based on 20 project management factors. A specialty trade contrac- tor that recommended On- dra-Huyett Associates for the award said the firm “has long been recognized as an industry leader and a truly professional organization.” ■ (DVAEYC) as a “Best Employer for Working Parents”, particu- larly for its customized employ- ment opportunities which allow employees to balance profes- sional and family demands. Top Workplaces’ extensive research has shown that employ- ees want to be part of something meaningful, where they can contribute and give their best. Listed anonymously on the sur- vey, two of the comments from MGKF employees were, “The work is interesting, challenging, and rewarding and the people I work with are supportive and work together as a team.” An- other noted, “The people make this place great. So many folks have been here 20+ years. It’s an amazing culture with top notch people, and that it makes it a pleasure to help them do their jobs better.” ■
CRANTON, PA — El- len Raineri, Ph.D. , of Hinerfeld Commer-
cial Real E s t a t e , earned her PABroker’s License. Addition- ally, Ellen ha s c om- pleted all of her CCIM
Ellen Raineri
Ondra-Huyett recieves National Const. Best Practices award from ASA
ALLENTOWN, PA — On- dra-Huyett Associates is one of five construction con- tractors that received the American Subcontractors Association’s first-ever National Construction Best Practices Awards for “demonstrating an extraor- dinary level of commitment to best industry practices.” The award was presented at the ASA’s annual meeting on March 2 in conjunction with the ASA Business Forum and Convention 2012 in San Antonio. “ASA’s National Construc- tion Best Practices Awards, presented for the first time this year, recognize firms that perform work as prime contractors and that have demonstrated an extraordi- nary level of commitment to best industry practices,” said 2011-12 ASA President Ker- rick Whisenant, Cornerstone
K&W hires Raubenstine as a staff professional in Harrisburg
HARRISBURG, PA— K&W EngineersandConsultants, located in Swatara Town-
ship, Dau- phin Coun- ty, recently hired Kris R a u b e n - stine as a s t a f f p r o - fessional in their Har- risburg of-
Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox named Top Workplaces 2012
Kris Raubenstine
fice. His experience includes stormwater management, storm drainage design, ero- sion and sediment (E&S) control design and permitting, PITTSBURGH, PA — Col- liers International- Pittsburgh has been selected by CoStar Group, commercial real es- tate’s leading independent research firm, to receive a Co- Star Power Broker Award. This annual award recog- nizes the “best of the best” in commercial real estate broker- age by highlighting the U.S. firms and individual brokers who closed the highest trans- action volumes in commercial property sales or leases for the entire year of 2011 in their respective markets. Colliers International- Pitts-
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP (MGKF ) was named
to Top Work- places 2012 by the Philadel- phia Inquirer, Da i l y News and Ph i l l y. com and was the top-rated law firm and ranked second
Colliers Pittsburgh selected by CoStar
Joesph Manko
overall in the small companies survey. Top Workplaces 2012 is an extensive effort by the Inquir- er, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com to uncover the best employers in the Philadelphia region—from the point of view of the employees themselves. Founding Partner Joseph Manko shared the firm’s ap- preciation of this recognition. He said, “When we started a
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