MEDIA CONTACTS:
Jason Shevrin: [email protected], 202-994-5631
Dan Michaelis: [email protected], 202-994-4413 (will be on site in New York)
EVENT:
The Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis, based at the George Washington University School of Business, will release a new comprehensive report on walkable urban places in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state metropolitan area. The report is the first to examine development trends in the region and to survey almost 100 percent of real estate in the region. It includes rankings of the economic performance and social equity of 149 walkable urban places in the region. The study also identifies areas that are home to emerging or potential walkable places.
The center will release the report, “WalkUP Wake-UP Call: Metro New York,” at a Manhattan event featuring the authors as well as prominent developers and planning officials. Researchers will discuss the report’s conclusions about how the region has been growing historically and where and how the metro area will grow over the next 10 to 20 years.
The morning briefing will discuss how walkable urban developments are responsible for an outsized percentage of the region's population, employment and economic activity. The study will compare those urban places economically and socially with drivable suburban communities.
WHO:
- Christopher B. Leinberger, the Charles Bendit Distinguished Scholar and Research Professor and chair of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis, GW School of Business
- Michael Rodriguez, director of research, Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis, GW School of Business
- Tom Wright, president, Regional Plan Association
- Nela Richardson, chief economist, Redfin
- Charles Bendit, partner, Taconic Investment Partners
- Tal Keret, president, Silverstein Properties
- Seth Pinsky, executive vice president, public affairs director and investment manager of the RXR Metropolitan Emerging Market Strategy, RXR Realty
- Isabelle Leighton, director of the Equality Fund, Asian Americans for Equality
- Linda Livingstone, dean, GW School of Business
WHEN:
Tuesday, April 4, 2017; 9 a.m.-noon
WHERE:
Four World Trade Center
68th Floor
150 Greenwich Street
New York, N.Y.
RSVP:
Media interested in attending must contact Jason Shevrin at [email protected] or 202-994-5631.
Advance, embargoed copies of the report are available upon request.
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