Leaving his perch as head of the firm’s marketing division, Christopher Wilson has been promoted to director of operations at Stribling & Associates. His replacement is Jacquelyn Sonenberg, who joined in July as a managing director.
The company was relatively mum on Wilson’s promotion because it had not been officially announced. Wilson began his real estate career in the early 1980s, starting out in architecture and interior design after attending Parsons School of Design. He worked with Halstead Property, Stribling, Douglas Elliman and the Related Companies, where he helped market the Strathmore on East 84th Street and the Sagamore on West 89th Street. He returned to Stribling in 1998 as a senior vice president, and eventually headed its Tribeca office.
Stribling’s marketing wing, which focuses on high-end Manhattan real estate, has touted some of the city’s toniest developments, including Porter House in the West Village and 47 East 91st Street in Carnegie Hill.
Sonenberg said she could not discuss future Stribling marketing projects. Current ones include the Hit Factory at 421 West 54th Street and the closely watched condo conversion at the Plaza Hotel, a project that may ultimately set residential price per square foot records for New York.
“We’re really blessed with the reputation Stribling has established thus far,” Sonenberg told The Real Deal, “giving us some wonderful, one-of-a-kind, architecturally driven properties, all the way down in Tribeca, in Chelsea, Uptown.”
Sonenberg’s last job, since 2002, was as managing director of sales and marketing at the Beekman Regent. Her career in real estate development marketing stretches back to the mid-1970s. She worked at the Trump Corporation, where she worked on Trump Tower and 500 Park Tower.
In 1986, Sonenberg moved from Trump with Louise Sunshine, when she formed the influential Sunshine Group, becoming its first executive vice president and broker of record as it marketed several of the higher-end residential developments in late 1980s Manhattan, including the Trump Palace and 30 East 85th Street.
“We’re really in an excellent position,” she said. “It’s an exciting time, really, for all of us in the industry. There’s a lot of new development happening in the city.”