NEW YORK CITY-As 2012 is coming to a close, it can be beneficial to look back across the year and into some of its major events. In that vein, Jodi Pulice, founder and president of JRT Realty Group Inc., sat down with GlobeSt.com to discuss One WTC post-Sandy (JRT was on the building’s leasing team), current local leasing trends, and her experiences as a woman-owned business in New York City.

What exactly about One WTC helped it withstand the effects of Sandy?

Pulice: Most new construction is being built to withstand the changing elements and at the same time be sustainable. Certainly the fact that the power never went down at One World Trade Center during storm speaks volumes and as a result, construction quickly resumed on the entire site in a brisk fashion.

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