Summit’s property and asset management services include:

• Development and approval of expense budgets
• Financial analysis of each project
• Construction management
• Property management, including
• Commercial leasing
• Sales and Marketing
• Financial reporting at fund/investor level

Commercial
Summit is a leading broker of office and retail space in Fairfield and Westchester Counties. Our sales and leasing specialists are thoroughly trained in office, retail, and industrial properties and in unimproved land. Working together with our clients, we achieve results that have earned our company an enviable reputation in the competitive commercial brokerage community of the metropolitan New York area.

Residential
Summit is an experienced broker of all classes of residential real estate, including single family homes, condominiums, multi-family properties, and apartment buildings. Summit’s residential team is highly trained and focused on delivering results for our clients. Since 1981 Summit has listed and sold over $xx million in residential real estate in Connecticut and New York State, including successfully listing and selling entire single-family home, condominium and apartment complexes.

Since our inception in 1981, development has been the core business of Summit.  Over time our development experience has expanded to include many classes of real estate assets, with a particular focus on the identification of undervalued assets and the successful redevelopment and repositions of these assets.

Summit’s development experience includes the following asset classes:

• Retail and Shopping Centers
• Commercial office
• Mixed Use
• Subdivisions
• Multifamily (Condominium and Apartment Buildings)

Our development and construction services include:

• In-depth market analysis and development
• Site-selection
• Feasibility studies and project budgeting
• Construction management and coordination
• Marketing of final product, including sales and leasing

Felix founded and operated Wachob & Charney, a residential Real Estate office, which employed over 60 Real Estate sales people with offices in Wilton, New Canaan and Westport, Connecticut. He also founded Executive Air, a full service FBO, with locations in Danbury and Danielson, Connecticut. During 1985-1995, Executive Air operated flight schools, aircraft charters, aircraft repair and maintenance and aircraft hangers. Felix operated Harbor Master Service Company, a full-service marina during 1982-1989. Prior to Summit, Felix founded Greenwich Equities, an NASD-registered broker dealer, and worked for Pitney Bowes and John Blair & Co., representing 26 NBC local affiliates to New York agencies. Felix has also served as an elected member of the Westport Planning and Zoning Commission from 1983 to 1985.  He holds a BES degree from the University of Bridgeport.

Felix T. Charney
Summit Development, LLC
96 Old Post Road
Southport, CT 06890
(203) 354-1500
fcharney@summitdevelopment.com

Prior to joining Summit, Christine was a Director for Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P., a commercial real estate capital intermediary. Working primarily on arranging debt placement, Christine was involved with over $1.5 billion of financing transactions. Prior to that, Christine worked for both private real estate investors as well as large financial institutions such as Mutual of New York Life Insurance Company and Bank of America.  She is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and a licensed Real Estate Broker in both Connecticut and Ohio.   She holds a BBA degree  from Adelphi University.

Christine Riniti
Summit Development, LLC
96 Old Post Road
Southport, CT 06890
Tel. (203) 354-1500
criniti@summitdevelopment.com

Prior to joining Summit, Jim was an attorney in private practice in Greenwich, Connecticut, focusing on real estate transactions.  He is admitted to practice in Connecticut and California.  Jim obtained his Connecticut real estate license in 2004 and his Connecticut broker’s license in 2008.  He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Jim Campbell
Summit Development, LLC
96 Old Post Road
Southport, CT 06890
(203) 354-1500
jcampbell@summitdevelopment.com

Prior to joining Summit, David was Director, Corporate Facilities for Reader’s Digest from 1996-2004 (RDA). In this position, David managed facility operations at RDA corporate headquarters and other domestic and international facilities. In addition, David led the planning and implementation of all capital projects related to RDA’s worldwide real-estate holdings. David previously worked as a project manager at Lynch Engineering P.C., a firm specializing in mechanical and electrical design for corporate clients. David began his career in 1985, and as project manager for Swedeland Forge Associates, a New Jersey-based recreational community developer.  He is a Member of the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA).  David holds a BS degree from Iona College.

Dave Walsh
Summit Development, LLC
480 North Bedford Road
Chappaqua, NY 10514
(914) 244-5155
dwalsh@summitdevelopment.com

Shu Kim recently joined Summit and brings 15 years of experience in commercial real estate finance with expertise in debt and equity origination, asset management, distressed and non-performing debt acquisitions, workouts, loan securitization, syndication, real estate fund formation, financing facilities, and private equity asset level transactions.