About Alex Cohen

View Alex's Commercial Guide View Alex's Commercial Basis Blog Educated at Yale and Princeton and an innovative thinker and leader in New York's commercial real estate community, Alex Cohen develops strategy, advises, manages and analyzes commercial office, retail and mixed-use acquisition and lease transactions for tenants, landlords and investors. With a background in urban planning, Alex has over 22 years of commercial real estate transaction negotiation experience, totaling over ten million square feet. Alex has both an extensive understanding of launching international brands in the U.S. and deep expertise in the marketing and repositioning of mixed-use real estate. Alex's unique perspective allows him to identify markets, brand buildings, and plan space configurations with the potential to attract and retain talent and customers vital to the workplace and retail environments of the future. Alex is a recognized thought leader and a frequent contributor and speaker in national and business media, including CNBC, Business Insider, NPR Marketplace, US News & World Report, USA Today, Huffington Post, and Crain's NY Business and he was recently interviewed at the 2021 UBS Global Consumer and Retail Conference on Pop-up Shops. His recent clients include Czarnowski (Toyota), Pirelli, Saint Ambreous Hospitality, Sennheiser, Unilever, Kering (Gucci), Canada Goose and CBS. Alex resides in Midtown Manhattan, one block from Central Park, and often spends his weekends in the Hamptons with his family and his French bulldog, Louis. SPECIALTIES: Office and Retail Lease Negotiation Commercial and Multi-Family Investments Corporate Location Strategy Property Repositioning and Marketing Strategy Site Due Diligence and SWOT Analysis Coworking and Office Space Disruption E-commerce, Demographics and Retail Disruption EDUCATION: B.A. History, 1988, Yale University Masters, Urban and Regional Planning/Public Policy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1994, Awarded Robertson Fellowship