Gary Alterman is an executive vice president and top retail broker who represents both tenants and landlords at RKF, a leasing and investment sales brokerage. Alterman, who started in the business in 1978 at retail brokerage Garrick-Aug Associates, joined Midtown-based RKF in 2007. A Brooklyn College alumnus and lifelong New Yorker, he has been on the frontlines of the development and revitalization of high-traffic retail locations across Manhattan, from Yorkville and Grand Central, to the Flatiron District. In 2009, he advised Israel Taub, who leased the retail space in the Mattel Building at 675 Sixth Avenue, to Trader Joes. While at New Spectrum Realty, a firm he founded 1987 and what is now Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, Alterman secured retail locations for Ann Taylor Loft. Other clients include Dean & Deluca, West Elm, Gap, and Pottery Barn. In the Financial District, Alterman found five national tenants, including Anna Taylor Loft, for the Metropolitan Transportation Authoritys 2 Broadway building, in the retail revitalization that occurred in the wake of 9/11.

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