The Real Deal New York

Dennis Friedrich leads the day-to-day operations and long-term strategy of Brookfield Office Properties, a wing of Brookfield Property Partners, which is itself under the Brookfield Asset Management corporate umbrella. Brookfield Office is headquartered in Lower Manhattan.

Its there that the firm has extensive holdings, including the more than 7 million-square-foot, mixed-use complex Brookfield Place, which contains the grandly apportioned Winter Garden retail plaza. The firm also controls several Midtown locations, including 45 Park Avenue, 300 Madison Avenue and Manhattan West, a planned 7 million-square-foot, mixed-use development bounded by 32nd and 33rd streets and Ninth and Tenth avenues.

Brookfield Property Partners in June 2014 bought the shares of Brookfield Office that it did not own to take full control of the company. At the time of that takeover, Brookfield Offices portfolio included 113 properties totaling 88 million square feet, most in downtown cores such as Midtown.

Friedrich has been CEO since July 2012, and before that was president and global chief investment officer for a year. Before that, he held various top executive positions with the firm and was also co-head of Jones Lang LaSalles tenant advisory practice in New York.

Friedrich earned a business degree from Baruch College.

-TA