Marisa Lago at REBNY Commercial Management Leadership Breakfast/ Photo courtesy of REBNY
NEW YORK CITY—At the Real Estate Board of New York's annual event honoring commercial property management professionals, Marisa Lago set forth priorities for the city's current urban planning. In her keynote speech, the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission described how she envisions the city's handling the housing and workspace demands to sustain continued future growth.
Lago pointed out that currently the Big Apple is home to 8.5 million people and 4.5 million jobs, both all-time highs. From 2010 to 2017 the city added 600,000 jobs—which exceeds the total number of jobs in the entire city of Boston. “But while our growth poses opportunities, it also poses challenges,” she added.
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Betsy Kim
Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.
