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Commercial Observer, March 5, 2025
ByAmanda Schiavo
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Long live the Queens.
Darcy Stacom and Wendy Silverstein are icons in the world of commercial real estate, and although it is Stacom who has the nickname “The Queen of Skyscrapers” she’d happily share her crown with Silverstein, her business partner and friend of more than 20 years.
Among her many career highlights: Stacom was a broker with CBRE (CBRE) from 2002 to 2024 before striking out on her own and founding Stacom CRE. She’s worked on some of the most headline-grabbing, expensive multifamily and office deals in New York City and the nation, including the $5.4 billion sale of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town in 2006 and the $2.8 billion sale of the General Motors Building two years later. She also helped to sell the Chrysler Building in 2019 to Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs.
Separately, these dynamic women helped shape the New York City real estate landscape over the last 30 years. Neither has plans to slow down soon. The pair recently teamed to combine their skills and experience to launch StacomSilverstein, a boutique capital markets real estate advisory firm based in New York City.
Wendy Silverstein and Darcy Stacom (Photo: Yvonne Albinowski/For Commercial Observer)
Stacom and Silverstein met back in the 1990s after hearing about one another and their respective careers. They’d never actually worked together, however, having been somewhat siloed by their male colleagues.
“Darcy would call me and ask me to go out to lunch,” Silverstein said. “And I really credit her with being the woman who reached out for the woman. And so we started off, quite frankly, as friends, even more than business counterparties.”
Stacom and Silverstein, who serve as co-CEOs of their firm, recently sat down with Commercial Observer to discuss some of their career highlights, what it takes to become titans in the New York City real estate scene, and the state of the CRE market.
