Announcements

NEW YORK, NY—Able Equipment Rental, Inc. announces that the company made the third largest jump on Rental Equipment Register’s (RER) 2010 Top North American Rental Equipment Companies list.

NEW YORK, NY—E-J Electric Installation Co. (E-J) is pleased to announce that the company recently completed the JetBlue Terminal 5 project at JFK International Airport.  The historic terminal project included a new $746 million, 635,000 square foot, 26-gate passenger terminal at New York’s JFK Airport located behind the 1962 historic landmark Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Terminal.

MILLWOOD, NY—The Inside Press, Inc., the award-winning publisher of Inside Chappaqua Magazine since 2003, announces the debut date of “Single&Smart,” a new magazine targeting professional single adults residing primarily in Westchester County.  

NEW YORK, NY—Jones Lang LaSalle has hired Matt Duthie as a managing director. He will be based out of its New York office and will be responsible for the firm’s Property Management team in the city. He reports to Peter Riguardi, president of Jones Lang LaSalle’s New York region.

NEW YORK, NY—Alicia Popper, a highly-regarded real estate professional with an impressive background in tenant and landlord representation, has joined Savitt Partners as a Senior Managing Director. Popper brings over nineteen years of commercial real estate expertise to her new position at Savitt Partners. She will be working closely with the firm’s tenant and ownership brokerage teams on high profile assignments throughout New York City.

NEW YORK, NY—Eyenetwork (http://www.eyenetwork.com), a provider of videoconferencing services, is reporting a significant shift towards videoconferences by companies that used to rely on face-to-face meetings. A massive upsurge in client enquiries was predictably triggered by the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland, which grounded international flights. However, now that the ash is settled and planes are flying as normal, a higher than usual level of client interest in videoconferencing has been sustained.

NEW YORK, NY—The Alliance for Downtown New York, the city’s largest Business Improvement District, has enhanced its Wi-Fi network to provide free coverage spanning more than 500,000 square feet of space at nine hotspots in parks and public spaces throughout Lower Manhattan, from City Hall Park to Bowling Green.

NEW YORK, NY—National Reprographics Inc. (NRI) has agreed to acquire AEC Technology Consultants, LLC, an Atlanta-based technology consulting firm. This acquisition further solidifies NRI’s position as one of the most rapidly evolving data management technology solution providers in the United States.

BETHESDA, MD—Leaders from the business and public policy communities have launched a nonpartisan think tank promising fresh solutions to America's healthcare problems. The Healthcare Performance Management Institute (HPM Institute) aims to advance the study of how organizations can use management theory and technology to improve the country's healthcare system.

"President Obama has issued a call for solutions to America's most pressing healthcare problems,

KINGSTON, NY—ScheinMedia has extended the deadline until Earth Day for entries in New York House magazine’s second annual Innovative Green Design Awards, celebrating the best green and sustainable designs in home furnishings and building products. New this year are two categories—building materials and interior finishes—which complement existing categories: furniture, lighting, flooring and floor coverings, bedding, window treatments, kitchen and household appliances.