Joel Braver

Express Builders

144 Spencer Street Suite 612 Brooklyn, NY 11205

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Express Builders NYC portfolio

$325.5 million* – V1 78.0%, industrial 15.0%; Brooklyn 79.0%, Bronx 20.0%

500th largest portfolio by dollar value

21,000 sqft – retail 100%, industrial 0%;

4119th largest by SF

8 properties – Bronx 62%, Brooklyn 37%

1001th largest

Person Activity past 24 months:

Buyer signatory: 3 for $28 million

Borrower signatory: 3 for $226.1 million

Developer (new building or major alteration): 17 for 505,762 square feet

Top Ten Associated Companies:

Signature Bank (2), Food City Markets, Inc (1), Popular Bank (1), Kahal Toldos Tzvi D’Spinka (1), Shulem Schik (1), Castellan Capital (1), Yeshiva Beis Leivy (1), Castellan Real Estate Partners (1), NYC Housing Development Corporation (1), Richard A. Kaplin (1)

Top Ten Associated People:

Barbara G. Berger (1), Meilech Spitzer (1), Shulem Schik (1), Joel Hammer (1), Herman Silberman (1), Shulem Eisenberg (1), Maryanne Kearney (1), Richard A. Kaplin (1)

Recent activity as company:

• Express Builders and Twin Group Associates borrowed $11 million from Popular Bank for 57 East Burnside Avenue, Fordham Heights, Bronx on March 07, 2025.

• Food City Markets, Inc sold 57 East Burnside Avenue, Fordham Heights, Bronx for $15 million to Express Builders and Twin Group Associates on March 07, 2025.

• Joel Braver filed plans for new building for 62,045 sqft in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on January 28, 2025.

• Express Builders borrowed $192.1 million from NYC Housing Development Corporation for 498 Columbia Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn on December 31, 2024.

• Joel Braver filed plans for new building for 156,632 sqft in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on December 02, 2024.

• Express Builders borrowed $23 million from Castellan Capital for N/A Story Avenue, N/A Lafayette Avenue, N/A Story Avenue, and N/A Lafayette Avenue, Soundview, Bronx on September 04, 2024.

• Kahal Toldos Tzvi D’Spinka sold 100 Rutledge Street and 102 Rutledge Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn for $3.1 million to Express Builders on May 03, 2024.

• Joel Braver filed plans for new building for 227,086 sqft in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on March 06, 2024.

• Yeshiva Beis Leivy sold 437 Flushing Avenue and 433 Flushing Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn for $9.9 million to Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar on August 17, 2023.

• Joel Braver borrowed $19.1 million from Castellan Real Estate Partners for 904 Bedford Avenue, 908 Bedford Avenue, and 902 Bedford Avenue, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on February 14, 2023.