Metro Commercial Real Estate, Inc.

Steve's entire 20-year professional career has been exclusively involved in commercial real estate, culminating with him joining Metro Commercial Real Estate in July 2004 to become the firm's president.

It was originally from a love of architecture that steered Steve toward the real estate industry. While he was a junior at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. he cold-called his way from a lobby pay phone into a part-time job at Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate (now CBRE). After returning to his hometown of Philadelphia in 1987, he worked at Reed & Stambaugh, then a long-established office building firm in Center City. In 1988, he helped form Fox Realty Consultants, an office building leasing and management firm, where he eventually became its President. Over time, his activities became more involved finding locations for retailers, and in 1994, joined Michael Salove Company, where he eventually became that firm's Chief Operating Officer.

As president of Metro Commercial, Steve now leads the firm's 31 professionals and its support team from three offices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, providing innovative and progressive retail strategies throughout the mid-Atlantic and Northeast US for retailers and developers.

Steve has represented the expansion needs of many retailers' initial foray into the Philadelphia region, including Hollywood Video and its opening of over fifty stores. He has exclusively and personally represented Marshalls/TJ Maxx, Bally Total Fitness, Kohls, Crate & Barrel, Macy's, and Nextel. He has also exclusively represented Forest City Ratner Companies on all of its new retail developments in Philadelphia, including Hunting Park Plaza and Quartermaster Plaza, a 500,000 square foot regional shopping center in South Philadelphia. He has been an active part of Center City Philadelphia's retail renaissance with the transactions he negotiated involving flagship locations for The Gap, Walgreen's, and CVS. In the investment sales arena, he negotiated the $75 million sale of Tower Investments' retail holdings along the Delaware River to Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.

He is the current PA/NJ/DE state chair, as well as a frequent lecturer, for The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the industry's trade association.

Steve's extensive network of professional and personal contacts is legendary, and is also reflected in his high level of involvement in community service. He is the current Co-Chair of the Real Estate Division of State of Israel Bonds, and serves on numerous other boards and charities.