The Rosenblum Companies

The good times - and pumpkins - were rolling this week at our Great Oaks and Wolf Road office properties during the kick-off for our 11th Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive benefiting The Food Pantries for the Capital District, featuring fresh cider donuts, candy corn ring toss, and pumpkin bowling! For each pin knocked down, The Rosenblum Companies is adding $1 to the total raised during our 3-week drive – each dollar is enough to purchase 6.25 pounds of food! You can join us in striking out hunger by making a monetary donation to the Food Pantries online: https://lnkd.in/eeBVVsAh

Nice pumpkin bowl Walter Thorne in our fall food drive fundraiser to benefit The Food Pantries for the Capital District. Thank you to all of our tenants for joining us at our Winners Circle properties for today’s event and for donating food and funds in our building lobbies this season! Next time you see Walter be sure to ask him about his bowling career!

At The Rosenblum Companies, we’re big proponents of public transportation but this past week we found ourselves dragging a 30,000-pound bus instead of riding one! Thank you Capital District Transportation Authority for the opportunity to participate in the 8th Annual Pink Bus Pull fundraiser, which so far has 'pulled in' over $100,000 for the American Cancer Society! We’re looking forward to getting a “Better Pace” next year!

One of our core values at The Rosenblum Companies is to seek continuous improvement, which not only guides our property management and real estate development practice, but also our company culture. In 2024, we broadened our benefit offerings, launched fun new employee engagement events, invested in training and professional growth opportunities, and organized more community volunteering than ever before because our team is our greatest asset, and it takes work to be an Albany Business Review “Best Places to Work” eight years in a row!

According to new census data, Albany County is experiencing a surge in new businesses and job creation. Jeff Mirel, principal of The Rosenblum Companies, sat down with WRGB CBS6 News to talk about how Launchbox Flexible Warehouse Suites, the first cowarehousing facility in Upstate NY, supports this growth by addressing a shortage of high quality, cost-effective workspaces for small businesses. https://lnkd.in/epgMcSjr

The Rosenblum Companies focuses on creating better spaces to build stronger communities, but it’s not often that our real estate work aligns so closely with our volunteering. Over the last 36 years, Habitat for Humanity Capital District has built or rehabbed 170 homes in Albany and Rensselaer counties, and we were privileged to ply our trade constructing the next one!

One of our goals for developing Industrie Apartments was to provide another link connecting Albany's downtown core and Warehouse District. The lynchpin was finding an operator for our street level retail space who could create a dynamic new neighborhood destination. The Rosenblum Companies couldn’t be more excited to announce that Dave Zheng (Sake Café, Tanpopo Ramen & Sake Bar) and Mike Pietrocola (Pastina) will be opening the area’s first Japanese-Italian fusion restaurant, called Itameshi, in our building early next year! Check out Steve Barnes’ latest Table Hopping column in the Albany Times Union for more details: https://lnkd.in/e7TnPaSB?

The Rosenblum Companies is nearly finished with a complete remodel of 1 and 2 Winners Circle, located just blocks from Interstate 87 and Wolf Road in Colonie. Each building's two-story atrium, corridors and restrooms are being updated with new Class A finishes and furnishings, and the building exteriors have received a fresh look!

Hosting Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan at 745 Broadway has become an annual tradition of sorts for The Rosenblum Companies. The first time two years ago, we broke ground for the construction of Industrie Apartments. A year later, the Mayor joined us again during construction for a hard hat tour with Doreen Harris, President & CEO at NYSERDA and other officials to view the energy conservation measures we were taking to fully electrify the building and achieve Energy Star certification. On this third visit, we had the pleasure of showcasing the ‘finished product’ to the Mayor and Ashley Mohl, Interim President at Capitalize Albany Corporation, and an opportunity to thank them in person for their partnership and support on this odyssey to deliver the first zero emission apartment building in the City of Albany! #ittakeesavillage

The Rosenblum Companies not only cracked the Top 5 of the Albany Business Review’s “Top Developers List,” but the two projects that put us there, Industrie Apartments and Launchbox Flexible Warehouse Suites, represent the first all-electric midrise apartment building in the Capital Region and the first cowarehousing facility in Upstate NY respectively. Both buildings are zero-emission with no fossil fuels consumed onsite for building operations, and each has a robust rooftop solar PV array to offset energy use. Take a look at the full list: https://lnkd.in/e8pwH-yt