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475 Tenth Avenue

475 Tenth Avenue

Built in 1912, 475 10th avenue was the original home of the Hill Publishing Co., which later merged with McGraw Publishing and became the first McGraw-Hill Building. In the 1980’s the Adler Group transformed the building from a warehouse to occupancy by the most prestigious and creative tenants in New York City. Firms such as Massimo Vignelli, Gwathmey Segal and Richard Meier pioneered this repositioning. 475 Tenth Avenue has maintained this high level of tenancy with architects, advertising/marketing agencies and most recently an internationally renowned financial advisor firm.

The building has been owned and managed by principals of The Adler Group for over 60 years

Speakers and Panels

Larry Silverstein

Larry Silverstein

Chairman

Silverstein Properties

Janno Lieber

Janno Lieber

President- WTC Properties

Silverstein

Ziel Feldman

Ziel Feldman

Founder

HFZ Capital

Paul Schulman

Paul Schulman

Principal & COO

American Real Estate Partners (AREP)

Angela Cavaluzzi

Angela Cavaluzzi

President

Hudson Yards Development Corporation

Larry Silverstein

Chairman

Silverstein Properties

Larry A. Silverstein is the Chairman of Silverstein Properties, a Manhattan-based real estate development and investment firm that has developed, owned and managed 40 million square feet of office, residential, hotel and retail space. The firm currently has $10 billion worth of development activity underway, and has been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in New York City” by Crain’s New York Business for eight years in a row.

In July 2001, Mr. Silverstein completed the largest real estate transaction in New York history when he signed a 99-year lease on the 10.6 million square feet World Trade Center for $3.25 billion, only to see it destroyed in terrorist attacks six weeks later on September 11, 2001. He has spent the last 20 years rebuilding the office component of the World Trade Center site, a $30 billion project that will consume the balance of his working life.

In May 2006, Silverstein Properties opened 7 World Trade Center, the first office tower to be rebuilt at the site, and the first LEED-certified office building in New York City. The 52-story, 1.7 million square foot office tower is fully leased to an eclectic group of tenants. In November 2013, the company opened 4 World Trade Center, a 72-story 2.3 million square foot building designed by Fumihiko Maki. In June 2018, the company opened 3 World Trade Center, an 80-story, 2.5 million square foot building designed by Richard Rogers. The company is developing one other office tower on the WTC site – 2 World Trade Center, and a residential tower – 5 World Trade Center.

Silverstein Properties recently completed and opened a Four Seasons hotel and private residences designed by Robert A. M. Stern in Lower Manhattan which, at 82-stories, is one of the tallest residential towers in New York. The company also completed and opened the largest Four Seasons resort in the world at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.

Mr. Silverstein owns and manages many successful and high-profile commercial and residential properties in New York City, including 120 Broadway, 120 Wall Street, 529 Fifth Avenue and 1177 Avenue of the Americas. Mr. Silverstein completed and opened Silver Towers, two 60-story residential towers at 600 West 42nd Street, the companion to 1River Place, a 40-story, 921-unit tower which opened in 2000. The square block development houses over 2,200 families.

Mr. Silverstein is a member of the New York Bar and a Governor of the Real Estate Board of New York, having served as its Chairman. He has served as Chairman of the Realty Foundation of New York.

A 1952 graduate of New York University, Mr. Silverstein served as Vice Chairman of the NYU Board of Trustees, where he continues to serve as member of the Board of Trustees of the New York University Langone Medical Center. He is the Founder and Chairman emeritus of the advisory board of the NYU Real Estate Institute. As a Professor of Real Estate, his “Silverstein Workshop” became one of the most attended and informative educational sources for learning real estate development and investment analysis.

Mr. Silverstein donates his time and resources to support many philanthropic endeavors. He has served as Chairman of the Board of UJA-Federation. He is a founding trustee of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York and has served as treasurer of National Jewish Health in Denver.

Mr. Silverstein contributes his time and resources to organizations that are dedicated to higher education and medical research, meeting humanitarian needs and supporting the arts. Mr. Silverstein currently serves as a board member of the New York Philharmonic. He is a classical music enthusiast, a passionate yachtsman and a dedicated New Yorker. Larry and Klara Silverstein have been married for 65 years and have three children and one son-in-law, three of whom are executives at Silverstein Properties, and they also have eight grandchildren.

Paul Schulman

Principal & COO

American Real Estate Partners (AREP)

Paul joined AREP in June 2018 as Principal and Chief Operating Officer for the Company and brings over 30 years of commercial real estate experience. In this capacity, he is responsible for all day-to-day activities of the firm's 10 million square foot portfolio. Prior to joining AREP, Paul was the President and COO of Brookfield Property Partners' US Office division and had responsibility for the company's $27 billion, 60 million square foot portfolio. During his tenure at

Brookfield and predecessor companies, he oversaw the leasing of over 30 million square feet across all markets. He managed over 700 employees and an annual operating budget in excess of $1 billion in NOI. Prior to Brookfield's acquisition of Trizec in 2006, Paul held numerous leadership positions with

The JBG Companies and Trizec. Paul holds a Master of Business Administration degree from The American University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Marketing from the University of Maryland. He was named "Executive of the Year" in 2014 by the University of Maryland Alumni Association and is on the Advisory Board of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Paul is a member of The Economic Club of Washington and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Paul also serves as an Emeritus Trustee of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and recently joined the Advisory Boards of HqO, AMP Technologies, Inc. and Megalytics, Inc. In 2006, he

was named by Commercial Property News as a "Star to Watch."

Opening Remarks

Robert Liberman

Robert Liberman

CEO

The Adler Group, Inc.

Commercial Bounds Redrawn

How the Far West Side is Becoming the Place to be!

Mitchell Moinian

Mitchell Moinian

Principal

Moinian Group

David Cheikin

David Cheikin

Executive Vice President

Brookfield

Michael Evans

Michael Evans

President

Moynihan Station Development Corporation

Jeff Weinhaus

Jeff Weinhaus

Chief Development Officer

Equinox

Arthur Mirante II

Arthur Mirante II

Principal

Avison Young

Paul Hoffmann
Moderator

Paul Hoffmann

SVP

HAKS

Jeff Weinhaus

Chief Development Officer

Equinox

Jeffrey joined Equinox in August of 2006 as an Executive Vice President and Chief Development

Officer. In such capacity, he oversees all real estate development activities for the Company's brands, domestically and internationally.

Prior to accepting such position, Mr. Weinhaus was a senior partner in Rosen Weinhaus LLP, a

Manhattan-based law firm that specialized in business and real estate law. While at Rosen Weinhaus, in

addition to representing numerous clients on a variety of business and real estate matters, Mr. Weinhaus served as Equinox‘s outside general counsel. After graduating from The University of Michigan in 1987, and The Boston University School of Law in 1991, Mr. Weinhaus practiced law at national firms, Katten Muchin & Rosenman LLP and Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

Arthur Mirante II

Principal

Avison Young

Arthur J. Mirante II joined Avison Young in 2012 as a Principal and Tri-State President, based in the firm’s New York City office. One of the most accomplished and respected professionals in the commercial real estate industry, Mirante serves as a member of Avison Young’s Executive Operating Committee.

Prior to joining Avison Young, Mirante worked at Cushman & Wakefield for more than 40 years, where he most recently served as President of Global Client Development. Prior to that, he served as the firm’s CEO for 20 years.

During Mirante’s tenure as CEO, Cushman & Wakefield's revenues increased from $100 million to $1 billion and the firm expanded from 60 U.S. offices to 173 offices, including 100 outside the country.

Throughout his career, Mirante has participated in some of the New York market’s largest and most complex transactions, including the sale of the World Trade Center, the headquarters relocations of MasterCard International and The Guardian Life Insurance Company, the record $1.72 billion sale of 200 Park Avenue for Metropolitan Life in 2005, the record $1.8 billion acquisition of 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007, and the long term lease of 75 Rockefeller Plaza to RXR in 2013.

Paul Hoffmann

Moderator

HAKS

Paul Hoffmann is SVP of HAKS and Department Head of Special Inspections & Material Testing, overseeing Special and Progress inspections, Material Testing, building compliance, and construction monitoring. He established HAKS’ reputation as a major firm of choice in the area of Special Inspections for developers and owners, which has become the firm’s fastest-growing sector and is now the world’s largest Special Inspection Agency. His group serves clients in every market sector, private and public--residential, commercial office towers, hospitality, healthcare, schools, police and emergency stations, higher education, cultural centers, waterfronts, parking facilities, security centers, airports, transportation, power centers, public housing, disaster recovery, parks, bridges, public water and more. Since joining HAKS in 2009, Mr. Hoffmann has developed and won award contracts with representative construction values of over $10 billion, and developed a team nearing 200 highly trained professionals: inspectors project managers, lab services, administrative and support staff.

Community Building & Development

Thorsten Kiefer

Thorsten Kiefer

Director of Design and Development

HFZ Capital Group

Alicia Goldstein

Alicia Goldstein

President of Sales & Marketing

HFZ Capital

Robert Benfatto, Jr.

Robert Benfatto, Jr.

Executive Director

Hudson Yards-Hell's Kitchen Alliance

Howard Raber

Howard Raber

Director-Investment Sales Division

Ariel Property Advisors

Daria Salusbury

Daria Salusbury

President & CEO

Salusbury & Co.

Thorsten Kiefer

Director of Design and Development

HFZ Capital Group

Thorsten Kiefer is Director of Design and Development at HFZ Capital Group. As an architect, he oversees HFZ’s projects to ensure the highest level of design quality. Before joining HFZ, Mr. Kiefer worked with ShoP Architects for six years as a Senior Design Associate on the redevelopment of the South Street Seaport, the Bloomberg headquarters in London and a mixed-use tower development on 57th Street. Previously, Mr. Kiefer worked with the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in San Francisco. Mr. Kiefer holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.

Alicia Goldstein

President of Sales & Marketing

HFZ Capital

Alicia Goldstein was named Senior Managing Director and President of Sales & Marketing at HFZ Capital Group in January, 2016. Ms. Goldstein is recognized throughout the industry for her expertise in development planning and design, marketing and sales. She has led record breaking sell-outs through boom and bust cycles bringing significant properties to market and redefining neighborhoods globally.

At HFZ, Ms. Goldstein’s responsibilities include overseeing the pre-development and on-going sales and marketing programs for all of HFZ’s assets, including historic renovations and ground up developments. Her relationships with world renown architects and designers, the owners of top brokerages, hospitality and financial partners across the industry will complement the HFZ executive team. Utilizing her significant mixed-use experience, she will oversee HFZ’s execution of the full block site intersected by the High Line at 76 Eleventh Avenue for which Bjarke Ingels has designed two extraordinary towers with luxury residences, a hotel and retail, as well as The Bryant, the first luxury condominiums and hotel by David Chipperfield and the Fasano Residences and Hotel Miami Beach, the Brazilian brand’s first US location.

Ms. Goldstein most recently served as Executive Vice President of Alan Faena and Len Blavatnik’s Faena Group, playing a key role in the company’s U.S. expansion. Working with starchitects Foster + Partners and OMA, in three short years the team turned a neglected stretch of Miami beachfront property into Faena District Miami Beach, one of the most successful real estate projects in the United States. Ms. Goldstein’s development of Faena House is renowned for attracting titans of industry and breaking sales records in South Florida.

For ten years prior to that, Ms. Goldstein served as a Senior Vice President at Related Companies where she led condominium marketing nationwide for over $4 billion in sales. She helped create new residential sales benchmarks and redefine neighborhoods throughout New York City from Columbus Circle with the residences at Time Warner Center to The Caledonia, the first residential property on the Highline. She grew the Related Sales programs and Related Brand across the country with mixed use development in Los Angeles, Boston and Aspen. Goldstein collaborated with some of the industry’s most sought-after architects and designers including Robert A.M. Stern and David Rockwell while creating integrated partnerships with charitable organizations and consumer brands. Ms. Goldstein spent the early part of her career marketing blockbusters before buildings, at Miramax Films and Walden Media/Anschutz Entertainment Group working on Academy Award-winning titles such as The English Patient and Good Will Hunting and as a publicist representing top-tier clients such as The New York Post, Ben Affleck and The David Letterman Show during her tenure at BWR/Ogilvy + Mather and Rubenstein Associates.

A native New Yorker, Ms. Goldstein resides in Manhattan with her husband and son. She holds a BA from Columbia University and is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, Association of Real Estate Women, WX and Barnard Business and Professional Women. She also sits on various boards and is active in charitable organizations.

Howard Raber

Director-Investment Sales Division

Ariel Property Advisors

Howard Raber is a Director in the Investment Sales Division of Ariel Property Advisors. In addition to originating and executing exclusive listing sales, he is responsible for leading business development and networking initiatives in Manhattan below 96th Street.

Mr. Raber has executed deals involving various property types including multifamily, mixed-use, commercial and development sites in Manhattan below 96th Street and throughout the five boroughs. His insights have been featured in the Mann Report, Commercial Observer and the New York Real Estate Journal.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Raber practiced law at two Manhattan firms where he represented a broad range of clients in many aspects of both commercial litigation and corporate transactional matters. He is admitted to practice law in the States of New York and Connecticut, as well as the U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Involved with various charities and organizations both in conjunction with the company and in his personal life, Mr. Raber is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and a supporter of the No Kid Hungry Organization.

Mr. Raber received a Juris Doctor degree from the Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Moot Court Board, and earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Florida.

Mr. Raber can be reached at 212.544.9500 ext. 23 or via email at hraber@arielpa.com.

Daria Salusbury

President & CEO

Salusbury & Co.

Daria P. Salusbury is President and CEO of Salusbury & Co., a development, branding, and marketing firm that empowers its partners to bring real estate to market that shapes the world’s skylines. She has a 30-year track record of success, bringing more than $12 billion in luxury developments to market. Ms. Salusbury has worked as both a developer and broker in major cities across the U.S.

Prior to founding her firm, she spent 25 years at The Related Companies where she served as Senior Vice President and head of the luxury rental division. Some of her most successful projects included Related’s Abington House, MiMA and 456 Washington Street. Ms. Salusbury has been featured in The New York Times, Crain’s New York Business, Forbes, The New York Observer and The Real Deal. She resides in New York City’s Upper West Side and Milbrook, NY, where she can be found shooting sporting clays in her spare time with her Chesapeake Bay retriever Hannah.

Closing Keynote Interview

Jay Cross
Keynote

Jay Cross

President

Related Hudson Yards

Mitchel Simpler
Moderator

Mitchel Simpler

Managing Partner

Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B)

Jay Cross

President

Related Hudson Yards

Jay Cross is President of Related Hudson Yards, leading the Related Companies’ development efforts of the 26-acre Hudson Yards site on the west side of New York City. Cross has over 30 years of diversified real estate and sports business experience having been a driving force behind the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, the American Airlines Arena in Miami and the Air Canada Centre, home for the NBA’s Toronto Raptors and the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs.

Cross was formerly President of the New York Jets LLC where he was responsible for all business operations of the NFL team, including finance, marketing, community relations, broadcast and game operations and the team’s 50% share in the New Meadowlands Stadium a joint venture with the New York Giants. Cross joined the Jets in 2000 from the Miami Heat of the NBA where he was the President of Business Operations and led the development of the America Airlines Arena, creating a public-private partnership between the Heat and Miami-Dade County to manage the project. In that role he also spearheaded a pioneering development program surrounding the arena that included multiple restaurants and an office tower, and closed on an unprecedented triple “A” $185 million bond offering.

Cross also served as the point person for the development of the Air Canada Centre, home of Toronto's NBA and NHL franchises. Cross has held senior positions with Marlborough Properties Inc. where he was responsible for the company’s commercial and industrial portfolio, and at The Prudential Insurance Company of America's real estate investment operations, where he was responsible for all aspects of The Consilium, a mixed-use project in Toronto incorporating 2 million sf of office space, a 400-room hotel and 1,000 condominiums. An accomplished sailor, Cross has been a member of three Canadian Olympic Teams and won 10 World, North American and National titles. Cross holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Architectural Technology from Columbia University.

Mitchel Simpler

Moderator

Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B)

Mitchel Simpler joined Jaros, Baum & Bolles in 1977, and has served as Managing Partner since 2012.

Mr. Simpler has served as Project Manager and Partner in Charge on a wide variety of high-rise office

buildings, corporate headquarters, laboratories, museums, data centers, residential buildings and

mixed-use buildings as well as hotels.

Some of Mr. Simpler’s notable projects include premier laboratory facilities and research centers, such

as the new Memorial Inpatient Hospital for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Belfer

Research Building at Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Rohm & Haas Research Center in Shanghai,

China.  His experience also includes corporate headquarters such as Sohio headquarters in Cleveland,

OH for BP America and Merck world headquarters in Readington, NJ.  Mr. Simpler has also managed the

construction of landmark museums and visual art spaces such as the Brooklyn Museum and the

Metropolitan Museum of Art and is currently working on the TWA Hotel, the reimagination of Eero

Saarinen’s landmark TWA terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport as well as the new One Vanderbilt Tower

in midtown.

Mr. Simpler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University.  He is

a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of New York and a Fellow of the American Council of

Engineering Companies.

Hudson Yards Case Study

Dean Shapiro

Dean Shapiro

Global Head of Development

Oxford Properties Group

Marc Gallagher

Marc Gallagher

Senior Principal

LANGAN

Joe Lauro

Joe Lauro

Principal

Gensler

Dean Shapiro

Global Head of Development

Oxford Properties Group

Dean Shapiro is a Global Head of Development at Oxford Properties Group and is primarily responsible for Oxford’s investment in the Hudson Yards development project. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer and Partner at Building and Land Technology in Stamford where he executed major leases with Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Cornell University, and Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy. He was formerly Executive Managing Director of CBRE where he managed the revenue operations of the New York City market, and held various positions at Insignia/ESG.

Marc Gallagher

Senior Principal

LANGAN

Marc Gallagher is a Senior Principal in Langan’s New York City office. He has 22 years of geotechnical

engineering experience in the United States and abroad; including stadiums in Iraq, motorways in

Greece and the largest real estate project in the United States – Hudson Yards.  In 2011 he was named

among the “Top 20 Under 40” by Engineering News Record (ENR) New York.  Mr. Gallagher also serves

as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and teaches a graduate course focused on foundations

for SuperTall buildings.

Summary

Join Bisnow as we explore Manhattan's most talked about neighborhood: The Far West Side! For years, the excitement surrounding Hudson Yards, The High Line, Moynihan Station, and more has built up. Now that we're on the cusp of major projects opening, we've decided to bring this hot event back!

Don't miss keynotes, panels, and of course some breakfast & networking with colleagues in the industry!

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Venue

475 10th avenue
New York, NY 10018

Floor: 8th floor


Agenda

Time Activity
Thursday February 2, 2017
1:30 PM
1:35 PM
Opening Remarks
Wednesday March 29, 2017
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
Breakfast & Networking
12:35 PM
1:15 PM
Commercial Bounds Redrawn
1:15 PM
1:45 PM
Hudson Yards Case Study
1:45 PM
2:30 PM
Community Building & Development
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
Closing Keynote Interview
3:00 PM
3:30 PM
Post Event Networking