Paul Massey and Bob Knakal of Massey Knakal

Industry movers and shakers were out in force at several parties Sunday and Monday nights for the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual ReCon event in Las Vegas. See full story and photos after the jump.

David Simon

Massey Knakal Realty Services is set to hire as many as 40 brokers to staff several new offices in New Jersey, where it wants to compete with long-term New Jersey players such as CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield and Gebroe-Hammer Associates, the Wall Street Journal reported.

David Simon, a former Cassidy Turley executive, will head up the first New Jersey office. The office will employ the same territory system as the company’s New York office, whereby brokers specialize in a particular geographic area. Eventually, Massey Knakal aims to capture 20 percent of the New Jersey market, the same amount of the market it controls in New York. [more]

210 West 77th Street (Propertyshark)

As non-profit organizations continue to struggle, many are liquidating real estate assets. The latest is 210 West 77th Street, which the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services is offering, according to a report from Crain’s.

The building, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, is currently a parking garage, but could accommodate a building 185 feet tall, and up to 100,000 square feet, Crain’s said. Experts told Crain’s the site could fetch as much as $45 million. [more]

From left: Guthrie Garvin, a shot of the Staten Island retreat and Michael Schneider

Praise the Lord. A 10-acre Jesuit retreat on Staten Island that is ripe for development has hit the market for $15.95 million, Crain’s reported. Guthrie Garvin and Michael Schneider of Massey Knakal Realty Services are marketing the property for the New York Province of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic order that owns the site.

The lot, located at 239 Fingerboard Road, will be delivered vacant and is already zoned for residential development. A developer can build up to approximately 113,000 square feet on the site. [more]