Power Broker
Ralph Perna
Associate RE Broker, Schacker Real Estate Corp.
Melville, NY 11747
Industrial Specialist in the Long Island Market.
Phone (631) 293-3700
Mobile (516) 524-8060
Industrial Specialist in the Long Island Market.
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
Property Types
Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, Flex, Multi-Family
Markets
Long Island (New York)
Bio
Entering the Industrial Real Estate market in November of 1975 was a much different landscape versus today. The Hauppauge Industrial Park had an antenna farm on Motor Parkway and Ronkonkoma was the end of the world. Today, the Hauppauge Industrial Park is the largest on the east coast, and the second largest in the country. Ralph Perna was involved with many of the developments along Commerce Drive, Adams Avenue, and Wireless Boulevard during the “Roaring 80’s”. Spec warehouse construction was done only by a few; the Racanelli’s, Jerry Wolkoff, and Walter Gross. Unheard of until three years ago, Private Equity Companies ventured to Long Island. In 1984, Ralph was the first industrial real estate broker to have his own computer, as a Senior Vice President at D’Angelo Forrest.
Ralph Perna joined Schacker Realty in June of 2021 as an Associate Real Estate Broker.
Prior to joining Schacker, Ralph was Executive Managing Director at Newmark, Knight, Frank’s Long Island office, there for twenty years and, prior to that, a partner at Island Realty which he and Jack O’Connor sold to Grubb & Ellis in February of 1999.
Over the course of his career, Ralph has successfully marketed office and industrial properties for owners and investors. As an integral component of this business, he has effectively accommodated the space requirements of a variety of tenants/users and developed an extensive database of buyers interested in the local market. His expertise ranges from marketing techniques to finance structuring, municipal liaison and environmental impact evaluation.
Ralph has successfully completed transactions with Forest Laboratories and Medical Action Industries, in addition to completing transactions involving 200,000 and 300,000-square-foot facilities for Long Island Industrial and a 250,000-square-foot build-to-suit on 30 acres for Intercounty Appliance Service, as well as 250,000-square-foot for Invagen Pharma. Ralph also represents Suffolk Transportation Services for all of their Long Island real estate requirements, as well as We Transport, and Sunrise Medical Laboratories, a division of Sonic Care International, for a new corporate headquarters consisting of 90,000 square feet, 170,000 square feet at 2 Channel Drive.
An active member of his local community, over the years Ralph has also served on the Board of Directors for the Suffolk Community College Foundation, Inc., and as a committee member for its annual Salute to Excellence event, Midsummer’s Night gala and annual golf tournament. Ralph’s education was interrupted by the last draft lottery in 1972 and he served in the Navy. However, his formal education included a Ph.D. from the “University of Hard Knocks”.
