More than 200 alumni, professors, real estate experts and students gathered at the Columbia Club to discuss rebuilding lower Manhattan after September 11.
Hosted by the New York Alumni Steering Committee and the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, the well-attended event examined the political, business and public concerns involved in rebuilding the area around the World Trade Center.
Featured speakers included Alexander Garvin, vice president for planning, design and development at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; Professor Lynne Sagalyn, director of the School’s MBA Real Estate Program and the Milstein Center; and Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture and senior partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects. Attendees shared ideas and considered lessons learned from the renovation of Times Square.
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