Bio
Profile
Joseph Grotto, Jr. has been active in the New York City metropolitan area as a commercial leasing broker and consultant for the past 30 years. A co-founder of J. Grotto & Associates, Mr.
Grotto merged his company into Cushman & Wakefield. Mr. Grotto's accomplishments encompass in excess of 4.8 million square feet of leasing and sales transactions, in addition to numerous consulting assignments.
Education
Bachelor's degree, Denison University
Professional Affiliations
Licensed Real Estate Broker, New York and Connecticut
Board of Governors, Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY)
Robert T. Lawrence Memorial Award awarded by The Sales Brokers Committee of the Real Estate Board of New York for most ingenious sales deal in New York City, 1994
Assistant Treasurer, Realty Foundation of New York, 2005–present
Young Real Estate Man of the Year Award, 2009
Board of Governors, Vice Chairman, Chairman 2001 (400-plus members), Young Men's/Women's R.E. Association
Assignments
Notable Transactions
American Royal Reinsurance Co. – 42,000 SF lease
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY – assemblage of entire block front on the Upper East Side, in addition to various leases
Sunkyong America Inc., 110 East 55th Street, New York, NY – 70,000 SF building purchase
Estates of Irwin and Adolph Schnurmacher, 425 East 61st Street, New York, NY – 175,000 SF building sale
HIP of Greater New York – 213,000 SF corporate headquarters lease
The Spence School – 30,000 SF acquisition of the former Smither's Institute Building
IBM, East Fishkill, NY – 600,000 SF building sale
Fidelis Care of NY, Queens, NY – 94,000 SF headquarters lease; Buffalo, NY - 171,000 SF lease
Crozier Fine Arts, Inc., Newark, NJ – 230,000 SF building sale
GiftCertificates.com, Carlstadt, NJ – 100,000 SF lease
Pfizer – Numerous transactions worldwide
Marymount Manhattan College – 120,000 SF residential condo
Princeton Club of New York – sale of air rights
Areas of Interest
- Deal Type
- Acquisition, Development, Ground Lease, Loan Purchase, Opportunity Zone, Partner Buyout, Pre-Development, Recapitalization, Refinance, Rehabilitation