Steven H. Gartner is new head of Metro.Metro Commercial Real Estate, Inc. announced that it has appointed Steven H. Gartner to the newly created position of president. Gartner previously served as chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Michael Salove Company. Concurrent with his appointment, Metro Commercial announced that founder Daniel J. Hughes has been named company CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and will continue to actively participate in the overall management of the company. Metro Commercial currently represents 130 retail properties, totaling in excess of 14 million s/f in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The company also serves as the exclusive tenant representative for 27 major retail chains in the area, including Sports Authority, Circuit City, Target and PETsMART. The firm's property management division manages 50 shopping centers in the tri-state area. As president of Metro Commercial, Gartner will spearhead the company's expansion into northern New Jersey and the entire state of Pennsylvania, from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. In addition, Gartner will manage the day-to-day operations of the company. Gartner's appointment complements an expanding executive management team that in April saw the addition of former Rubenstein Brokerage Group business manager Amy Orons as director of operations. Gartner, a native of the Philadelphia area, orchestrated one of the largest commercial real estate transactions in the region in 2003 when he crafted the deal that sold two of Bart Blatstein's Tower Investment shopping centers to Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. for a record $75 million. During his career, he has represented such national retailers as Marshalls/ TJ Maxx, Kohl's and Hollywood Video. In addition, Gartner was responsible for leasing Quartermaster quartermaster Officer who oversees arrangements for the quartering and movement of troops. The office dates at least to the 15th century in Europe. The French minister of war under Louis XIV created a quartermaster general's department that dotted the countryside with Plaza, a 500,000 s/f power center opening this fall in South Philadelphia, on behalf of Forest City Ratner Companies. He also contributed to the Center City renaissance by attracting top retailers to Philadelphia, including the Gap flagship store and the country's top performing CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , Tweeter tweeter - woofer and Walgreen's. Prior to his term at the Michael Salove Company, Gartner was president of Fox Realty Consultants and held positions with Reed & Stambaugh and Cushman & Wakefield. Recently, he was selected to serve as the Pennsylvania/Southern New Jersey/Delaware state operations co-chair for the International Council of Shopping Centers The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is an international trade association of the shopping center industry. The organization, founded in 1957, has 65,000 members worldwide, which include shopping center owners, developers and managers, as well as other individuals, . In addition, Gartner serves as a featured moderator at the ICSC's regional annual meeting. Active in community service, Gartner is the current co-chair of the real estate division of State of Israel Bonds State of Israel Bonds are debt securities issued by the Government of Israel. They are backed by the full faith and credit of the Government of Israel, which has maintained a perfect record of repayment of interest and principal since the first bond was issued.[https://www. , and had held leadership and board positions with Hillel of Greater Philadelphia, the Jewish Federation, Aish Philadelphia, the Arthritis Foundation and the Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. . Gartner received his B.A. in finance from George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. . He resides in Penn Valley, Penn. |
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