Don't ask Marty Burger, CEO of Silverstein Properties, when he started reopening his New York area buildings after the COVID-19 shutdowns.
Burger will tell you that Silverstein, which develops, owns and operates office and residential projects in New York, never fully closed down. "We operated our buildings right through from the very beginning," Burger says. "We have almost 500 employees at Silverstein Properties and more than 200 of those employees have been working since day one in our buildings keeping them going, whether they're engineers or porters or concierge."
Still, Silverstein's office tenants sent their workers home. "At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, we wanted to figure out how to make all of our buildings safe and accessible to our tenants," Burger says.
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Leslie Shaver
Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.
