Building the Future of New York City Forum Featuring Industry Leaders of NYC

May 10, 2012
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
7 World Trade Center
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Please join us for our three-panel symposium on the future of New York City. Our panelists will consider how past leadership brought us to today's opportunities and what we can do together to create a city that will remain the most admired in the world. It will convene thought leaders from real estate, government, academia and the broader business community to discuss what we can do today to shape the economic and societal future of New York City. Join our panel as we decide how to approach crucial NYC items like: Infrastructure & Innovation, Borough & Community Development, Economic Growth Engines and the initiatives (both public and private) that can link together to transform our city.

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May 15, 2012
11:30 AM - 8:30 PM
Westchester Hills Golf Club, White Plains

Be sure to come out and enjoy this year's spring weather at our 19th Annual Golf Outing at Westchester Hills Golf Club. We invite you to be part of the fun, celebrate another successful year of NAIOP involvement and enjoy the camaraderie with your colleagues. Golf tickets are sold out but click here to join us for dinner and cocktails.

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June 6, 2012
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Greenberg Traurig LLP
200 Park Avenue
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Please join us for our EB-5 Financing seminar hosted by Greenberg Traurig LLP. This seminar event will provide important details on the issues impacting those in the real estate sector seeking alternative financing through the use of the Immigrant Investor Program, or EB-5, specifically through EB-5 Regional Centers. This event is encouraged for both public and private entities.

We interviewed Alan S. Cohen, Partner at Cooley LLP, as our May 2012 Member of the month. Alan sits on the NAIOP NYC Executive Committee as the Chapter secretary and has participated in various NAIOP events both locally and nationally including our successful NAIOP National Conference in Washington, D.C. in February. Alan has been a member of NAIOP for three years.

Tell us about your involvement in NAIOP NYC.
I have been a member of NAIOP NYC for over three years. Initially, I attended monthly Board meetings and enjoyed hearing about the NAIOP agenda and actions taken, both nationally and locally, to achieve results on issues facing the real estate community. In 2010, I became a member of the Membership Committee and helped to focus its agenda and work with the other committee members to develop new methods and programs to attract new members, and to enhance the value of being a member. I have continued to become more active in the Chapter. My law firm became a sponsor of NAIOP and hosted a number of Board meetings and special events and I was asked to participate in discussions and strategy sessions regarding the Chapter generally and to work with our colleagues nationally to advocate on behalf of the real estate industry. In 2012, I attended CLLR 2012 in Washington, D.C., and participated in “Capitol Hill Day,” which was a tremendous experience meeting with our elected representatives serving NY State. I also was elected the Chapter’s Corporate Secretary and a member of the Executive Committee.

What is the most challenging aspect of your position?
As the liaison between the Chapter’s Membership Committee and the Executive Committee/Board, it is often very challenging, working with the Membership Committee, to create new strategies for both attracting new members to the Chapter and retaining existing members year to year. The Chapter offers excellent programming to real estate professionals, featuring recognized leaders of the financial, brokerage and development industries in NYC, and makes these programs available to members and non-members alike. Another challenge is working with Chapter leadership to achieve the proper balance between enhancing the “value” of membership – such as offering discount attendance at these programs, and invitations to roundtable discussions and private tours of private and public developments – while continuing to provide programming and resources to the general real estate community.

What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
The best advice I received is to limit the number of organizations in which you become involved professionally and, with respect to each such organization, devote as much time, and become active, at the highest level possible. This has helped me make significant and meaningful contributions, and has maximized the value of my networking activities.

What is the last book you read?
“Played Their Hearts Out”, by George Dohrmann. An excellent insight into the world of AAU athletics (basketball) and the challenges, pitfalls and abuses of promising athletes by manipulative and greedy coaches and recruiters.

Who is your favorite Superhero?
Adam West’s Batman (the original TV Batman, for those DL members who may not have heard of him). Hysterical, over-dramatic, corny, hilarious, philosophic, ridiculous and had the best vocabulary of any Superhero. He was the Captain Kirk (William Shatner) of Superheroes.

What do you wish you had studied in school but did not?
Filmmaking, media, journalism and communications; essentially, ways of turning creative thoughts into finished products.

Andrew Flint, View the Space
Dennis Giuliano, Birdsall Services Group
Jill Grabel, Madison Capital
Jason J. Hayes, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services
Karen Kozlowski, Thompson Hine LLP
Aaron Samuel Lazovik, Brickman Real Estate
Jim Lisk, Beckerman Public Relations
Thomas Lucivero, VHB
Stephen Andrew Morse, GRANT Engineering
Douglas Shafer, Massey Knakal
Jesse Shemesh, BDO USA LLP
Jennifer Silver, The Rockefeller Group