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VICKI BEEN FOR BREAKFAST
August 31, 2009
| We wrapped up an eventful August (who said real estate wasn’t busy this month?) by joining NYCREW in GE’s Park Avenue offices for its third “Leading Ladies of New York City Real Estate” summer series breakfast, featuring Vicki Been, director of NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. |
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| Vicki talks of growing up in a hardscrabble Colorado town where not many people went to college; she bucked the trend, going to Colorado State and landing a job with lawyers who worked on student tenant/landlord problems. She was urged to go to law school, and still had love for housing and urban issues, she says, despite being from a town where land use disputes were between sheep herders and cow farmers. (Just like that musical:Oklaradohoma.) Now she focuses on research of legal and policy work and how they affect people, compiling data for those involved in land use, development, housing, urban economics, and urban policy. |
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| Don’t these NYCREW members look lovely, despite the early morning and last Wednesday’s scorching heat? Clockwise, they join Vicki, who’s seated second from the left: AvalonBay Communities’Stephanie Cuba, Sklar Realty Group’s Lydia Sklar, NYCREW president-elect Sharon Khurdan, Crowell & Moring’s Barbara Champoux, Eurohypo AG’s Jo Hastings, GE Real Estate’s Kathleen Carey, Fidelity National Title’s Isabelle Pullis, and NYCREW prez Liz Muskat of Ferzan Robbins & Associates. |
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| GE’s Setarah Rafiee and Paul, Hastings’ Nathalia Young and Susan Wade recently returned from “familycations” in the Jersey Shore, Ohio, and Seattle. The trips had the cost-saving benefit of family crash pads, so they apologize for not helping the hospitality industry this summer. |
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| Weiser's Noelle du Toit, Sharon Khurdan, and Bank of America’s Lauren Sanders. Although the breakfast ended NYCREW’s summer event series, it has a full schedule this autumn, including a joint-AREW networking cocktail reception on September 9 at the Shelburne Hotel, and an industry spotlight on distressed debt, featuring Park Praedium’s Marguerite Brogan, Hudson Realty Capital’s Renee Lewis, and MetLife Investments’ Shari Linnick, on September 22. |
