CSCommercial Group, LLC is pleased to announce that Mr. David S. Schneck has joined our firm as Executive Vice President. Mr. Schneck served as Senior Vice President for Helmsley Spear and brings over four decades of experience specializing in commercial leasing in Manhattan. Over the course of his distinguished career, he has personally been responsible for over 20 million square feet of leases with a value in excess of $20 Billion. Prior to joining HelmsleySpear, Mr. Schneck served as an Executive Managing Director at Grubb & Ellis, where he was consistently a member of its Circle of Excellence, an honor reserved for the firm’s top producers nationwide and was twice the number one producer in the New York office.

As a tenant representative, Mr. Schneck has represented many prominent companies in the non-profit, publishing, corporate, diplomatic, healthcare, entertainment, higher-education, financial, law, accounting, securities and tech industries.
Representative tenant assignments that Mr. Schneck has consummated include: 200,000 square feet for Empire Blue Cross, 200,000 square feet over several transactions for the United Nations, 40,000 square feet for Mount Sinai Medical Center, 100,000 square feet for the Screens Actors Guild, 40,000 square feet for Columbia University, 700,000 square feet for Qwest Communications, and 40,000 square feet for the City University of New York.

As a landlord representative, Mr. Schneck has served as a leasing agent for over six million square feet including: 1251 Avenue of the America, 747 Third Avenue, 919 Third Avenue, 75 Rockefeller Center, 750 Lexington Avenue, Tower 49 and 5 West 54th Street.

Mr. Schneck is a graduate of the University of Alabama where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and is a Senior Member of the Real Estate Board of New York.

Mr. Schneck contributes his time as an advisor at the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village. He is a Fifth Degree Black Belt in the World Seido Karate Organization which includes special programs for the blind and deaf and the YAI for the Learning Disabled.