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Kevin R. Wang of KRW Realty Advisors has spent 40+ years in the real estate
industry. He is best known for acquiring and enhancing existing property in New York City and throughout Metropolitan Area through the renovation and repositioning of assets.
He began his career in 1979 at Cross & Brown Company. He served as a Vice President (1979-85), where he specialized in landlord & tenant representation and was
responsible for agency work at 150 E 52nd St., 275 Madison & 80 Eighth Avenue, working closely with real estate legends Norman F. Levy and Aaron Gural.
Kevin left Cross & Brown in 1985 to join Bernard Mendik at The Mendik Company. Kevin served as Senior VP/Partner from 1985 – 1999. As the Director of Leasing he was responsible for over 9 million square feet of the portfolio including 100 Church Street, 110 William Street, 11 Penn Plaza, 2 Penn Plaza, 1 Penn Plaza, 909 3rd Avenue, 770 Broadway as well as a number of suburban office assets. During his tenure, he completed an average of 1.5 million square feet of leasing transactions annually and established an impeccable reputation for integrity, industry leadership and creative deal-making. In 1997 The Mendik Company was acquired by Vornado Realty Trust.
In May of 1999, Kevin left Vornado and founded KRW Realty Advisors, LLC. Kevin, acting as a GP, acquired properties including 230 W 41st Street with PGIM, 600
Broadway with Oaktree Capital Management (OCM), as well as floors 20-25 in the residential condo 111 West 67th Street. In 2011, KRW structured a joint venture with OCM and Taconic to build the residential condominium 71 Laight street aka The Sterling Mason.
Today, KRW remains focused on the renovation and repositioning of assets, requiring deep multi-faceted expertise and market knowledge. In addition, KRW works on select third-party fee development and asset management, leasing, consulting and advisory assignments from New York to Alaska, focusing primarily on the Tri-State Area. In 2015, he completed the redevelopment of 501 Madison Avenue, which was nominated for REBNY's Most Ingenious Deal award that same year. Currently, Kevin is redeveloping “The Hive”; 303 West 42nd Street and 300 West 43rd Street comprising a complete 140k square foot office & retail redevelopment.
Kevin has been an active member of REBNY since he began his career at Cross & Brown. He currently sits on the Board of Governor’s (since 2006) and is the current
Chairman of the General Meetings Committee and a member of the REBNY Arbitration Committee. He served as REBNY’s Co-Chairman of the International Seminar Committee from 1900-1995. Kevin is a former Chairman of the YMWREA (1989), and recipient of both the Young Man of the Year Award (1990) and Senior Man of the Year Award (2010). He is also a past former NAIOP Fairfield/Westchester Country President and lecturer at NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. In January 2020 Kevin received the prestigious Louis Smadbeck Memorial Broker Recognition Award.
Kevin received his Bachelor of Science in Business from Cornell University in 1979. He is a member of the Cornell Real Estate Council and a frequent contributor to the Manhasset Chapter of AHRC and the Tuesday's Children Foundation.
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