Opening Remarks

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  Robert Liberman

  CEO

  The Adler Group, Inc.

Commercial Bounds Redrawn

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

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  David Cheikin

  Executive Vice President

  Brookfield

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  Mitchell Moinian

  Principal

  Moinian Group

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  Michael Evans

  President

  Moynihan Station Development Corporation

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  Jeff Weinhaus

  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.

  Equinox

  Chief Development Officer

  Jeff Weinhaus

  Chief Development Officer

  Equinox

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  Arthur Mirante II

  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.

  Avison Young

  Principal

  Arthur Mirante II

  Principal

  Avison Young

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  Paul Hoffmann

  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.

  HAKS

  SVP

  Moderator

  Paul Hoffmann

  SVP

  HAKS

Hudson Yards Case Study

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  Dean Shapiro

  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.

  Oxford Properties Group

  Global Head of Development

  Dean Shapiro

  Global Head of Development

  Oxford Properties Group

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  Marc Gallagher

  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.

  LANGAN

  Senior Principal

  Marc Gallagher

  Senior Principal

  LANGAN

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  Joe Lauro

  Principal

  Gensler

Community Building & Development

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  Thorsten Kiefer

  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.

  HFZ Capital Group

  Director of Design and Development

  Thorsten Kiefer

  Director of Design and Development

  HFZ Capital Group

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  Robert Benfatto, Jr.

  Executive Director

  Hudson Yards-Hell's Kitchen Alliance

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  Howard Raber

  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.

  Ariel Property Advisors

  Director-Investment Sales Division

  Howard Raber

  Director-Investment Sales Division

  Ariel Property Advisors

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  Daria Salusbury

  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.

  Salusbury & Co.

  President & CEO

  Daria Salusbury

  President & CEO

  Salusbury & Co.

Closing Keynote Interview

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  Jay Cross

  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.

  Related Hudson Yards

  President

  Keynote

  Jay Cross

  President

  Related Hudson Yards

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  Mitchel Simpler

  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.

  Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B)

  Managing Partner

  Moderator

  Mitchel Simpler

  Managing Partner

  Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B)