Developing: My Life

Developing: My Life by ZECKENDORF / OLIVER


ISBN
9780991026357
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
296
Dimensions
191 x 255 x 29mm

In 1986, the New York Times called William Zeckendorf Jr. "Manhattan's most active real-estate developer", a judgment borne out by Zeckendorf's fascinating memoir. The second generation of a legendary family of developers, "Bill" Zeckendorf was a developer with a social conscience, not only putting up buildings but opening neglected parts of the city and transforming whole communities. Among the projects Zeckendorf chronicles in detail - and with rich documentary illustrations - are the Columbia, which set off a building boom on the Upper West Side; the four-acre Worldwide Plaza, a landmark in West Midtown; Queens West, the first residential project on the waterfront in Queens; the enormous Ronald Reagan Office Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.; and numerous projects in Santa Fe, his beloved second home. AUTHOR: Real estate developer William Zeckendorf Jr. was known for challenging projects - enormous mixed-use developments but also hotels, office buildings, apartment towers, and cultural facilities - that improved the lives and streetscapes of their communities. Born in 1929, Zeckendorf founded Zeckendorf Company in 1972 and went on to build a string of successful projects in New York; Washington, D.C.; and Santa Fe. He died in Santa Fe in 2014. SELLING POINTS: ? Wide-ranging, captivating, and deeply introspective, the memoir of William Zeckendorf Jr. (1929-2014) documents the celebrated real estate developer's impact on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe ? A glimpse inside the high-stakes world of real estate development, from finding a property to securing financing to hiring an architect to constructing the building to seeing it profitably occupied ? A history of New York in the 1970s and 1980s, from one of the people most responsible for its changing cityscape ? A candid and sincere assessment of the author's successes and failures, his public triumphs and equally public setbacks 100 colour, 70 b/w
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