Tighe was speaking about deals that were meaningful to her and mentioned that the process for this endeavor began in 1995. "I like transformation deals--deals that change the landscape," she said, while being interviewed by Michael G. Desiato, group managing director and editor-in-chief, Real Estate Media.

Tighe and Gregory Tosko of Insignia/ESG with Timothy Dempsey won the Real Estate Board's Henry Hart Rice Most Ingenious Deal of the Year Award for the development of The New York Times' proposed 52-story headquarters.

When the New York Times moved its presses to Queens in the mid-1990s, the company's leaders began to consider transferring the newspaper's editorial and administrative offices from its current headquarters on 43rd Street to a new facility that would require less maintenance and offer a more efficient workplace.