Danny Meyer

From the May issue: Danny Meyer is the founder and CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which operates the New York City restaurants Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke, Maialino and North End Grill, as well as the Whitney Museum eatery Untitled and the three restaurants in the Museum of Modern Art. The company also runs 14 outposts of the burger joint Shake Shack in Manhattan, Florida, Washington, D.C., Dubai and Kuwait City, with six more slated to open this year. Meyer also heads Union Square Events catering and Hospitality Quotient consulting. He has co-authored three books, including his business tome, “Setting the Table.” [more]

From the April issue: Stuart Saft is a partner at law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf and chair of the firm’s global real estate department. One of the country’s leading commercial and residential real estate lawyers, he’s been elected to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and listed in “Who’s Who in America,” “Who’s Who in American Law” and “Who’s Who in the World.” Handling financial syndication, sale-leasebacks and the acquisition and sale of residential, commercial and hospitality properties, he has represented developers like Swig Equities at the Sheffield, the Feil Organization at the Apthorp and the Moinian Group at the W Downtown Hotel and Residences. [more]

From the June issue: Joseph Moinian founded the successful ladies’ apparel company Billy Jack for Her before venturing into real estate in 1982. Today, the Moinian Group operates a 20 million-square-foot portfolio of assets across the U.S., valued at more than $8 billion. The firm’s holdings include the newly opened W New York-Downtown Hotel & Residences and a stake in Chicago’s Sears Tower. At the 768,500-square-foot office tower 3 Columbus Circle, Moinian is close to completing a $175 million redevelopment, after a $138 million equity investment from SL Green Realty Corp. helped fend off an attempted takeover by the Related Companies. Click here to read the interview.

Robert K. Futterman

From the April issue: Robert K. Futterman is the founder, chairman and CEO of Robert K. Futterman & Associates. With offices in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, northern New Jersey and San Francisco, the retail firm has been responsible for nearly $20 billion in real estate transactions since its founding in 1998, and is currently marketing retail space at 11 Times Square and 855 Sixth Avenue. In this month’s edition of The Closing, Futterman talks about dropping out of college, dating after divorce and what he lost after investing with Madoff. Click here to read the full interview. [more]

Bruce Eichner

From the March issue: Bruce Eichner is chairman of the Continuum Company, a privately held firm focused on the acquisition and development of residential, office, hospitality and retail space in New York, Miami and Las Vegas. His projects have included the Manhattan Club, which opened in 1997 as the city’s first time-share resort and the Continuum, a 2 million-square-foot condo community in South Beach that had openings in 2002 and 2008. In this month’s The Closing, Eichner opened up about his love of Safaris, his collection of 150 “trademark” ties and why he isn’t a household name like Trump. Also, he shed some light on the latest goings on at One Madison Park. Click here to see the full interview. [more]

Peter Riguardi

From the September issue: Peter Riguardi is the president of New York operations for Jones Lang LaSalle. He is the son of Edward Riguardi, who worked for 29 years at Williams Real Estate (now Colliers International). Riguardi talked to The Real Deal about rubbing shoulders with Bruce Springsteen, meeting his wife in high school and the two industry leaders he’s always competing with. Click here for more.

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MaryAnne Gilmartin

From the August issue: MaryAnne Gilmartin is the executive vice president of commercial and residential development at Forest City Ratner Companies, where she’s been since 1994. She’s overseeing the controversial $4 billion, 22-acre Atlantic Yards development, one of the most significant developments in Brooklyn’s history. She also led the construction of the new 1.6 million-square-foot New York Times headquarters in Midtown. In a sit-down interview with The Real Deal, Gilmartin talked about life with her family in Westchester, growing up in a single-parent home and how she ended up in development.

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Alice Mason

From the April issue: Alice Mason, one of the city’s legendary real estate brokers, ran
her eponymous boutique New York City real estate firm, which sold
properties at some of the most exclusive buildings in Manhattan to the
likes of Marilyn Monroe and other celebrities, for over 40 years. She
closed its Madison Avenue office in 2008 and now works from her Upper
East Side apartment. In a conversation with The Real Deal, Mason talked about her notoriously celeb-packed parties, living on her own, and reading former President Jimmy Carter’s “energy.” Click here to see the full interview. [more]

Mary Ann Tighe, CEO of the New York Tri-State Region of CB Richard Ellis

From the February issue: Mary Ann Tighe is the CEO of the New York Tri-State Region of CB Richard Ellis. She has been involved in over 74.5 million square feet of commercial transactions, including Condé Nast’s move to 4 Times Square and the relocation of the New York Times to its new building on Eighth Avenue. She’s the first woman to chair the Real Estate Board of New York. After her mother and sister died of lung cancer, she and her family founded a nonprofit called Joan’s Legacy: Uniting Against Lung Cancer, which has raised $6.5 million since 2001.  [more]

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David Levinson

From the January issue:

David Levinson is the chairman and CEO of L&L Holding Company, which he co-founded with Robert Lapidus in 2000. The company owns some five million square feet of commercial office space valued at around $3 billion, including 142 West 57th Street, 150 Fifth Avenue, 195 Broadway, 2 Park Avenue and the former International Toy Center at 200 Fifth Avenue. Before forming L&L, Levinson was the vice chairman of CB Richard Ellis. In this interview with The Real Deal, Levinson talks about his love for the Yankees — a team for which he is part owner — and how being the “official tester” at his father’s toy shop as a child helped influence his later career. “I was a great little salesman, because people would ask, ‘What should I get my son?’” Levinson said. more