It was 1954 and Julien J. Studley had been working as a real estate broker in New York City for several years. Although he had mostly been handling secondary or loft space, he wanted to crack the prime office market and saw negotiating on behalf of tenants as a virtually uncharted path to starting his own company. So was born Julien J. Studley Inc., now almost 50 years old and one of the country's top-tier national commercial real estate services firms.