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Poor Bruce Ratner
The Real Deal, in a hagiographic article on the city's powerful real estate wingmen, says while Bruce Ratner and his lieutenant MaryAnne Gilmartin play the levers of government in back rooms to get Forest City Ratner's deals done, it is Bob Sanna who gets the boondoggles built:
Power behind the throne: The lieutenants pulling the strings for NYC's top real estate chiefs
By C.J. Hughes
Bob Sanna, Forest City Ratner (executive vice president)
At Forest City Ratner, decisions about where to locate a building — on Spruce Street in the case of New York by Gehry, or at Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn for the under-construction Barclays Center — are made by Bruce Ratner, chairman, and MaryAnne Gilmartin, vice president.
But figuring out what the building will cost, how much time it will take to build and what it will look like are the responsibilities of Bob Sanna. While Ratner and Gilmartin are the faces of the company, Sanna, an architect by training, is the construction manager and point person for all the company's high-profile projects.
Since 1988, he's completed 40 projects for the firm, including the New York Times headquarters on Eighth Avenue; Metrotech, the 11-building Downtown Brooklyn office complex; and Regal's United Artists cinema at 100 Court Street. Few other development firms give the in-house construction manager as much sway in decision-making as Sanna, who oversees an 18-member team.
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Sanna said his regrets, so far, are few, like wishing that the Atlantic Center mall in Brooklyn, for instance, had more windows. But when it was constructed in the late 1990s, Forest City capitulated to the demands of their big-box retail tenants, who were convinced that only replicas of their suburban stores would work.
"Poor Bruce was being forced to conform to lease requirements of these suburban stores," said Sanna, who prefers what Home Depot did on West 23rd Street in fitting their store to an existing, more traditional space. "It's a whole different level of sophistication."
(Emphasis added)
Yes Poor, poor beset Bruce Ratner, he who said of the Atlantic Center Mall's odd, cold design:
"It's a problem of malls in dense urban areas that kids hang out there, and it's not too positive for shopping," Mr. Ratner said. "Look, here you're in an urban area, you're next to projects, you've got tough kids."
Adding that it was not an issue of class or ethnicity, he said: "You know it's kids that cut school. In the burbs, a 15-year-old can't get to the mall without his parents. Here, it's a little different."
Posted: 3.08.12
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