New frontiers for family firm entering its second century: Kal Dolgin, President Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates.Kalmon Dolgin has quietly helped build his family's 102 year old Brooklyn Old Brooklyn is a west side neighborhood of Cleveland, extending east-to-west from the Cuyahoga River to the City of Brooklyn and north-to-south from the Brookside Park Valley to the City of Parma. , NY-based company into one of the tri-state area's leading full-service real estate ownership, management, investment, appraisal and brokerage firms. With his late father Israel, brother Neil and son Joshua, Kal Dolgin has expanded the company from its Brooklyn roots throughout the outer boroughs and Long Island, into Manhattan, New Jersey, Connecticut and Westchester. In addition, the firm recently acquired a multi-property medical building portfolio in eight states up and down the East Coast. Not bad for a little brokerage firm started in Brooklyn by an immigrant Russian grocer back in 1904. Kalmon Dolgin currently serves as president of Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates, Inc. and KND KND Kids Next Door (cartoon) KND Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (IATA Airport Code) Management Co., Inc., as well as Of Counsel to the law firm of Agins, Siegel & Reiner. The grandson and namesake name·sake n. One that is named after another. [From the phrase for the name's sake.] namesake Noun of company founder, Kalmon Dolgin received his BA from Syracuse University Syracuse University, main campus at Syracuse, N.Y.; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1871. Syracuse is noted for its research programs in government and industry; facilities include the Center for Science and Technology, the Newhouse Communications Center, and and JD from the Syracuse University College of Law Syracuse University College of Law (SUCOL), founded in 1895, is a professional school of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. It is one of only four law schools in Upstate New York (the other three being Albany, Buffalo, and Cornell). . He is a Member of the Bar of the State of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and a Licensed Real Estate Broker in New York and New Jersey. He grew up in Great Neck with his brother Neil (now his partner), late-brother, Stu, sister Gail (who was nominated for an academy award in 2004 for best full-length documentary) and a menagerie of dogs and other pets. He and wife Peggy have three children, one of whom, Josh, represents the fourth generation in the family business. His daughter Brynn and son-in-law Alan presented Kal with his first grandchild, daughter Emma, and have another on the way? His youngest son Danny is completing his graduate degree in international relations international relations, study of the relations among states and other political and economic units in the international system. Particular areas of study within the field of international relations include diplomacy and diplomatic history, international law, and law at the Fletcher School at Tufts University Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in . "When I entered the business we were a small industrial brokerage firm and owned and managed a variety of mostly industrial buildings in Brooklyn and Queens. "This was natural since my father had grown up in Brooklyn and was most familiar with this environment," recalls Dolgin. "Having grown up on the Island and having a law degree gave me a somewhat different view, as did the time in which I grew up; it wasn't the depression era, but the days of 'I Like Ike' and Camelot and Viet Nam. Having a familiarity with the Island and legal structuring of various investment modalities Modalities The factors and circumstances that cause a patient's symptoms to improve or worsen, including weather, time of day, effects of food, and similar factors. I started a construction division that built a number of office buildings and small centers on the Island, as well as upstate New York Upstate New York is the region of New York State north of the core of the New York metropolitan area. It has a population of 7,121,911 out of New York State's total 18,976,457. Were it an independent state, it would be ranked 13th by population. and New Jersey. "We then expanded further into joint venture acquisitions and management of properties in Florida and now with my brother and son we have expanded this into a nationwide network of equity and management while expanding our brokerage division to over 50 full-time staff, appraisers, managers and administrators responsible for over 5,000,000 square feet." Dolgin says the firm's longevity has rested on their commitment to organization and expansion. The Dolgin firm's investment wing was launched in 1943, when the founder's sons, Morris and Israel Dolgin, bought their first building on Hope and Roebling streets in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates now operates two brokerage offices in Brooklyn and the Bronx, with a Long Island affiliate in Stony Brook Stony Brook may refer to: Massachusetts:
More than 40 full-time brokers offer transactional representation of building owners, tenants, sellers and buyers. On the building management side, the firm applies its accounting, architectural and operational services to more than five million square feet of space. Likewise, Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates' appraisals are recognized in every court for all purposes of valuation. In addition to continuing investment in the company's core industrial value-added base locally, Kalmon Dolgin is currently seeking opportunities in a variety of asset classes nationwide, as the company continues to grow in its second century. Today's complex market strategies may differ in scope and technical acumen from the early beginnings of Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates, but the basic ethic of hard work, client satisfaction and deep personal commitment to the community remain the bedrock values that will carry the firm into the next 100 years," Dolgin said. |
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