LANCE JAY BROWN
City College of New York, CUNY
ROBERT W. BURCHELL
Rutgers University
ROBERT GEDDES
Princeton University
JOHN J. GOERING
Baruch College, CUNY
BARRY HERSH
New York University Real Estate Institute
HUGH F. KELLY
New York University Real Estate Institute
ANNE MORRIS
Baruch College, CUNY
JACK S. NYMAN
The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute Baruch College, CUNY
ROBERT PAASWELL
City College of New York, CUNY
PETER SALINS
Stony Brook University, SUNY
ROSEMARY SCANLON
New York University Real Estate Institute
PETER SLATIN
Real Capital Analytics, Inc.
ROBERT G. Von ANCKEN
Grubb & Ellis Valuation & Advisory Group
How Strategic Investments in Lower Manhattan Can Help Ensure NYC’s Global Competitiveness for the Long Term
April 7, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
SUBJECT: How Strategic Investments in Lower Manhattan Can Help Ensure NYC’s Global Competitiveness for the Long Term
7 World Trade Center
45th Floor, 250 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007
Event Registration:
DOWNTOWN 2020, a major report that offers
comprehensive recommendations for planning,
development, and investment in Lower Manhattan,
will be released and discussed at a by-invitation-only
event at 7 World Trade Center on April 7.
The report was prepared by a multidisciplinary team
of researchers convened by the Newman Real Estate
Institute at Baruch College, CUNY.
Members of the research team will speak, and
representatives of the public and private sectors will
offer their perspectives, including Joel Ettinger,
Executive Director of the New York Metropolitan
Transportation Council; Elizabeth H. Berger,
President, Alliance for Downtown New York; and
Larry Silverstein, President and CEO of
Silverstein Properties, the developer of 7WTC and of
three other towers to be constructed at the World
Trade Center site.
The report’s aim is a sustainable, prosperous future
for Downtown and for the larger core business
district of which it is a part – historically the city’s
engine of growth. Intended to stimulate and inform
future civic and business planning decisions, the
report presents rigorous analyses of economic,
transportation, and urban design issues; six strategic
principles to guide public and private investment;
and dozens of practical recommendations for
implementing them.