SCRANTON — John T. Cognetti, CCIM, SIOR of Hinerfeld Commercial Real Estate, was recently recognized at the SIOR World Conference in Washington, D.C. for his 30-year membership in the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR).
SIOR is a Washington, DC-based international professional organization of more than 3,200 commercial real estate professionals whom have earned the coveted SIOR designation.
To achieve the SIOR designation, designees must complete at least five years of creditable experience in the highly specialized field of industrial/office real estate; meet stringent education requirements; and demonstrate professional ability, competency, ethical conduct, and personal integrity.
Individuals who hold the SIOR designation are top producers in the commercial real estate field and are represented in more than 685 cities in 36 countries around the world. SIOR enforces a strict code of ethics.
Cognetti has more than 40 years of commercial real estate experience-specializing in office, industrial, retail, land and adaptive reuse of properties. As President of Hinerfeld Commercial Real Estate, he is responsible for molding the Company and its people in a direction that creates growth while striving to provide competent, professional, and ethical commercial real estate services to the Region.
An SIOR member since 1989, Cognetti has served various on chapter committees and was honored to serve as treasurer for the Philadelphia Chapter of SIOR. Cognetti has further served the regional community as former Chairman of the Board of Penn’s Northeast and current Secretary of the Board of Directors of Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank. He was instrumental in creating the standard real estate forms used by Realtors® in Pennsylvania.
About Hinerfeld
The Hinerfeld Commercial Real Estate Company has as its primary market the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania. This covers a region bordered by the Southern Tier of New York State on the north, the Delaware River on the east, Lehigh Valley to the south and Central Pennsylvania on the west.
We are licensed in Pennsylvania and New York.This includes the counties of Pike, Wayne, Monroe, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Lackawanna and Luzerne. The principle cities are Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton and Stroudsburg.
A nationally recognized interstate system crosses the area in all directions providing overnight access to Canada and the Northeastern and the Mid-Atlantic regions of the US.
Two class one railroads, Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern, provide service to the region.Industrial activity is primarily concentrated in the Scranton-Pittston-Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton corridor along I-81.
While this corridor has the largest workforce concentration, the surrounding communities in all directions of this corridor feed into this employment base.
Pittston is the geographic center of Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) and in the last 10 years has seen the largest amount of new industrial development consisting of logistics and distribution and an evolving office and call center base.
Our market knowledge of the where, what, how and why provides our clients with the best solutions for their commercial real estate requirement.
