W&H's successful "Portfolio-Wide Passport Challenge" concluded with nine Manhattan brokers winning valuable prizes in a raffle, including a 50-inch Panasonic Plasma HDTV for Christopher Sterling of Williamson, Picket & Gross, announces Fred C. Posniak, senior vice president of Wien & Malkin Supervisory Services, the asset manager for W&H Properties.

Winners of W&H's "Passport Program" Raffle join W&H managing agents on the
41st floor of the Empire State Building. From leftW&H: Stephen Eynon of
CB Richard Ellis, Christopher Sterling of Williamson, Picket & Gross, Richard Price
of Winoker Realty, Ross Eisenberg of Grubb & Ellis, George Fabian of Cushman
& Wakefield, Dan Bodner of CB Richard Ellis, David Kahane of Cushman & Wakefield,
John Sinon of Newmark Knight Frank, Ryan Baum of Cushman & Wakefield,
Billy Mendelson of Newmark Knight Frank, Ryan Manger of NYCRS, Garett Varricchio
of CB Richard Ellis, Audrey Coe of Cushman & Wakefield, and Ashley Whitney
of Newmark Knight Frank. Not pictured are winners Peter Buckey of Colliers ABR,
James Wenk of Staubach, and Keith Kurland of CB Richard Ellis.

Second-place prizes, IBM ThinkPad X60s, were awarded to Peter Buckey of Colliers ABR, Ross Eisenberg of Grubb & Ellis, and Ryan Magner of NYCRS. The five third-place winners, who received Sony Cyber-shot® DSC-T50 digital cameras, were Ryan Baum of Cushman & Wakefield, Keith Kurland of CB Richard Ellis, Richard Price of Winoker Realty, James Wenk of Staubach, and Ashley Whitney of Newmark Knight Frank.

The purpose of the program was to introduce the brokerage community to the W&H Properties portfolio additions and their new managing agents, and to explain what large-scale capital improvements are planned for the additions, notes Mr. Posniak.

During the last two weeks of January, hundreds of brokers qualified for the raffle by visiting the five new W&H properties (the Empire State Building, 112 West 34th Street, 1333 Broadway, 1350 Broadway and 1400 Broadway) and at least two of the original W&H properties (1359 Broadway, 501 Seventh Avenue, 250 West 57th Street and The Lincoln Building).

"By visiting the original W&H buildings, which all have benefited from top-to-bottom overhauls, new management and a major re-branding initiative, the brokers were given a graphic illustration of the great changes in store for the portfolio additions," says Mr. Posniak.

"The turnout was excellent," he adds. "The brokerage community welcomed the opportunity not only to enter a raffle with fantastic prizes, but also to see some great space in a market where available space is scarce.

"We look forward to doing business with these brokers in the near future," adds Mr. Posniak. "They know we have more than $15 million in commissions to pay, and a great product to offer their clients."