Verizon Wireless also has other agencies handling retail accounts in the Northeast, South Central and Southwest regions.
"If you're selling multimillion-dollar apartments, it's very important to segregate the two uses," said David Rosenberg, a broker at the Manhattan-based Robert K. Futterman & Associates, which is handling retail leasing for Flushing Commons, as well as 101 Warren Street, another mixed-use project in Manhattan.
Norman handled retail and Stanley manufacturing, and by 1939 they had 35 shops.
Cliff Freeman, for instance, recently paired with Zimmerman Advertising, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to handle retail clients.
Beam Inc. named Doe-Anderson to handle retail marketing for the Jim Beam brands portfolio, which also includes Jim Beam Black, Red Stag by Jim Beam and Jim Beam Devil's Cut.
Concept Farm will handle retail advertising for the bank's branches, as well as ads for its global institutional and private bank businesses.
* Adirondack Chair Co., Long Island City, Queens, to Bleecker & Sullivan, New York, as the first agency to handle retail advertising for its Adirondack Office Furniture.
The Woodbridge-based company, which also handles retail properties, primarily in Monmouth and Ocean Counties, is looking to tap into a resilient industrial market and a recovering office market in northern New Jersey, said its president, Jonathan B. Schultz.
THE proximity of the other two retail centers is a plus for Queens Place "because it creates a regional shopping area," said Chris Conlon, a partner at the Ripco Real Estate Corporation, a commercial brokerage firm in Jericho, N.Y., which handles retail leasing for Forest City Ratner and also represents Target and Best Buy in the New York metropolitan area.
To manage the development of the site and handle retail leasing, Campus Partners recently turned to Jones Lang LaSalle, one of several big real estate companies with divisions specializing in helping universities improve their surroundings, get more value out of their real estate and build student housing.
Mr. Kalikow said the project "relies on the principal of privatization, in effect, which is what Governor Pataki sets as a very important goal in his administration". LaSalle Partners will direct and manage the work and Williams Jackson Ewing will handle retail planning and leasing.
