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Brokerage Eastern Consolidated Will Close Its Doors

New York City’s Eastern Consolidated, the commercial sales and leasing brokerage founded by Daun Paris and Peter Hauspurg (pictured) in 1981, is closing its doors. The company will cease operations in July.

In a recent statement, Paris and Hauspurg said they’d hired an investment bank earlier this year to evaluate a buyout offer. “During this process, other opportunities arose, but they all came with terms and conditions with which we were not comfortable,” said the husband-and-wife duo.

Paris and Hauspurg, Eastern’s president and chairman, respectively, said opting to wind down operations was “an incredibly difficult and complicated decision to make, as Eastern has been a huge and incredible part of our lives for nearly 40 years. We’ve had tremendous success, worked with many talented people, and the deals we’ve done have helped transform the New York City skyline.”

They expressed confidence that their team would be “in high demand at other firms.”

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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