NEW YORK CITY—Commercial real estate, it goes without saying, is a people business. On the subject of people, it has tended to attract a number who could best be described as larger than life. If there have been game-changing events over the 15 years that GlobeSt.com has been on the Web, then there certainly have been game-changing people.
As part of our ongoing 15th-anniversary celebration, we asked members of editorial advisory board to weigh in on some of the game-changing figures of commercial real estate. We've collected some of their thoughts here, with the game-changers arranged in alphabetical order.
Tom Barrack: “He certainly helped create the idea of the contrarian investor in real estate by buying all those bad S&L loans, and many other investors have followed.” (Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of the Retail Group at Douglas Elliman Real Estate)
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Paul Bubny
Paul Bubny is managing editor of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. He has been reporting on business since 1988 and on commercial real estate since 2007. He is based at ALM Real Estate Media Group's offices in New York City.
