Events

4th Annual Building New York's Future Luncheon

25 September, 2009

Honorees: Tommy Craig , Scott Salmirs, and Brett D. Yormark.

Time: 11:45a.m. to 12:30p.m. / Cocktail Reception.

Place: The Pierre / Fifth Avenue at 61st street

Co-Chairs: David Arena, Grubb & Ellis * Bruce E. Mosler, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. * Stephen B. Siegel, CB Richard Ellis

Special Guests include: PAL Chairman & Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau * PAL Honorary President & Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly * PAL Vice Chairman & Former Police Commissioner Robert J. McGuire

Honorees:

Tommy Craig - Mr. Craig is a Senior Vice President of Hines and has been responsible for its New York Regional Office since 1996. Over the course of a 27-year career, he has been involved with the development of many instantly recognizable Manhattan sites, most notably One Jackson Square, 745 Seventh Avenue for Morgan Stanley and 31 West 52nd Street, as well as a new project on the MoMA campus now in the planning phase. Mr. Craig has worked on a variety of development projects and acquisitions, approximating 15 million square feet and $7 billion in value on some of the most noteworthy real estate developments in the tri-state area. Additionally, he was responsible for advising a consortium of banks on the disposition of two prominent Manhattan buildings in the mid-1990s.

Scott Salmirs - As Executive Vice President for the Northeast Region of ABM Industries, Mr. Salmirs is responsible for managing their Janitorial, Engineering and Security services divisions for the Northeast Region. Since joining ABM more than six years ago, he has successfully grown the firm’s client base and had a leading role in the acquisition and integration of four building services firms. His team has developed a specialization in institutional assignments and has become an expert in sustainability and green cleaning. Mr. Salmirs has helped ABM to become recognized as the janitorial services industry leader. Prior to joining ABM, he was Senior Vice President - Director of Corporate Real Estate at Lehman Brothers, Vice President at Goldman Sachs from 1998 to 2001, and spent six years at the Edward S. Gordon company, now CBRE, in their Asset Management Group, Property Management Group and Leasing Group.

Brett D. Yormark - Since Mr. Yormark joined NETS Sports and Entertainment in January 2005, he has reinvented the culture of NETS Basketball as President & Chief Executive Officer. Under his direction, the franchise has set new standards for new ticket sales and corporate sponsorships, including the NETS becoming the first-ever NBA team to have a sponsor logo - PNY Technologies, Inc. - on their practice jerseys. Mr. Yormark’s mission has been to make the NETs the most accessible and community active franchise in sports through a variety of initiatives he created such as The NETS Employment Program, an annual sweepstakes in which a student wins the opportunity to take a NETS player to school, and paying tolls on NJ Turnpike’s Exit 16W for one hour on Fan Appreciation Night. Additionally, he has also secured a 20-year strategic marketing partnership with Barclays, which includes the naming rights to the Barclays Center, the NETS planned home.