David Pennetta
Executive Managing Director • United States
SIOR, CIBS, LEED GA •
Local Office:
175 Broad Hollow Road, Suite 235
Melville, NY 11747-4711
United States
Office: +1 (631) 425-1240 x391240
David Pennetta
Executive Managing Director • United States
SIOR, CIBS, LEED GA •
David Pennetta is an Executive Managing Director of the Long Island Office of Cushman & Wakefield. He has over thirty years of successful experience in commercial real estate brokerage. He is responsible for overall team business, including the implementation of the company’s key business initiatives, leadership, client relationship management, business development and recruitment. He ensures the delivery of the full array of C&W’s creative and innovative services to its clients. He serves in a brokerage capacity with an emphasis on Corporate Representation with sub-specialities in Land Sales, Government Affairs, Economic Development, and Tax and incentive procurement. He possesses extensive expertise in tenant representation with additional expertise in investment property sales, property management, development and landlord representation.
Formerly a Microelectronics Engineer, he is well versed and proficient in the latest technologies and is personally proficient in Argus, ProCalc, MS Office, MS Project, Peracon, RCM and continues to be extremely computer and technology literate.
Clients Served & Major Transactions:
- County of Suffolk – 152,000 SF
- Town of Riverhead – 1643 Acres
- ADP Inc. – 68,000 SF
- Chyron Corporation 100,000 SF
- St. John University – 175 Acre Campus
- Polar Electro USA – 130,000 SF
- Broadridge Financial Services – 400,000 SF
- Catholic Health Services of Long Island – 120,000 SF
- Rivoli LHTC Apartment – 120,000 SF
- Strategic Officer (2013 – Present) CIBS (Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island) twice Past President (2011-2012, 1998-1999)
- Board Member of Huntington Planning Board (2011 – Present)
- Board Member of Real Estate Institute of SUNY Stony Brook (REI)
- Vice Chairman of the Town of Huntington Economic Development Corporation (2007-2013)
- Voting Board Member of Long Island Partnership, currently in Hiatus
- Member of Society of Industrial and Office Realtors
- Member of Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED), holds a LEED GA designation
- Member of Regional Planning Association (RPA)
- Cushman & Wakefield Top Producer by Market and Top revenue generation for Long Island, 2018, 2019
- ABLI (Association for a Better Long Island) 2019 – Highest Price PSF for Industrial Building in Nassau or Suffolk County
- CIBS (Commercial Industrial Brokers Society) Most Ingenious Broker of the Year Award, 2019
- LIBN (Long Island Business News) Commercial Broker of the Year, Long Island, 2019
- LIBN (Long Island Business News) Nassau County Industrial Deal of the Year, 2019; Nine acre first speculative industrial development in 14 years.
- LIBN (Long Island Business News) Largest Office Lease of the Year, 2020.
- Huntington Planning Board Member 2013-Present
- Melville Employment Center Plan Chairman: Re-envisioning a 9 million square foot business park
- BS with Honors, New York University, New York, NY
- Honors: Inducted Alpha Sigma Lambda – Majored in Real Estate
- Energeia Partnership Graduate (2008-2010)- Regional Stewardship Program, sixteen core subjects over two years. Exposure to the most dire and challenging issues impacting the Long Island Region.