NEW YORK CITY-In an inspiring and passionate speech, MaryAnne Gilmartin, EVP of Forest City Ratner Cos. addressed a riveted full-house of AREW members and guests during a luncheon Tuesday in Midtown. The developer, who said she started in the industry about 25 years ago, detailed the marquee projects she's worked on, what she's focused on today and some issues that the city must contend with now to create a brighter future.
“I started out learning development from the public side; I was asked to look at the West Side and come up with ideas,” she said. “I realized it'd be an awesome thing to be in an environment where if you can dream it, you can test it and see how it turns out.”
At FCR, Gimartin noted both seriously and tongue-in-cheek, “The things we do usually are big, complicated and difficult. If a project is not those things, we're probably not interested.”
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
