{"id":1004278454,"date":"2018-11-09T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004278454"},"modified":"2019-02-07T08:12:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:12:56","slug":"executive-spotlight-larry-silverstein-silverstein-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/executive-spotlight-larry-silverstein-silverstein-properties\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Spotlight: Larry Silverstein, Silverstein Properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1004278490\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004278490\" data-attachment-id=\"1004278490\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/executive-spotlight-larry-silverstein-silverstein-properties\/larry-a-silverstein-headshot-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1796,1795\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1173268099&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;44&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Larry A. Silverstein headshot (3)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Larry A. Silverstein, Chairman, Silverstein Properties&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"wp-image-1004278490 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg 1796w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg?resize=300,300 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg?resize=768,768 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg?resize=1024,1024 1024w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Larry-A.-Silverstein-headshot-3.jpg?resize=1536,1536 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004278490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry A. Silverstein, Chairman, Silverstein Properties<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Commercial Property Executive<\/em> will be honoring legendary New York developer Larry Silverstein with a Lifetime Achievement Award, as part of our annual Executives of the Year awards in December. In advance of this honor, we spoke to Silverstein about his life\u2019s work, including his latest billion-dollar foray into construction lending, the rebuilding and nearing completion of the World Trade Center in 2022 and his first book, which will go behind the scenes on one of the most important public-private ventures in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With the opening of 3 World Trade Center in June, the rebuilding of the World Trade Center complex is nearly complete after 17 years. What\u2019s left?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry Silverstein:<\/strong> The only thing left is to complete the construction of the performing arts center. If you look out our windows, you see the lower steel for the super structure that is now rising. The completion of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center is expected to be complete either at the end of 2021 or the beginning of \u201822. It will house a 500-seat theater, a 400-seat theater and a 300-seat theater. It can be utilized as three separate venues or one single venue of 1,200 seats. It will also provide for corporate use, so it will be an exciting addition to the World Trade Center rebuild and something that did not exist prior to 9\/11. But like just about everything else down here, it\u2019s a metamorphosis. It\u2019s just about complete, and when the last tower goes up\u2014Tower Two\u2014the rebuild of the World Trade Center will be completely behind us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I suppose Tower Two is a major transaction. Its cost will be in excess of $4 billion, so it\u2019s consequential\u2014as consequential as anything built at this site. The performing arts center, about $400 million, pales by comparison in terms of size. One is $400 million and the other is $4 billion. It\u2019s an interesting composite when you put the two of them together. But that\u2019s really what remains to be done at the Trade Center. Once that\u2019s finished, our job is complete. Then we\u2019ll have to find something else to do with our time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It sounds like you\u2019ve already found one thing to do with your time with Silverstein Capital, which you launched in early October to fill the gap in construction lending. Have any loans closed yet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:<\/strong> There\u2019s a good deal of activity on that front. We have a significant amount of capital available for financing purposes\u2014construction loans, particularly\u2014in the metropolitan area of New York. The opportunities here are significant. They\u2019re real. Michael May is heading that thrust on our behalf. He\u2019s seasoned. He\u2019s knowledgeable. He\u2019s very successful, having done this for most of his life.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect it won\u2019t be long before we announce our first transaction and probably go onto many others as time progresses. It\u2019s interesting. It\u2019s exciting. What we simply decided to do was to utilize the very considerable talent that we have internally here at Silverstein Properties. We have the ability to build high-rise buildings of very significant complexity and size and cost. We\u2019ve done every single aspect of them. We\u2019ve been on the hotel side. We\u2019ve been on the retail side, on the office side, on the construction side. You name it, we\u2019ve been through it all. To use the talent now for purposes of providing construction loan financing makes all the sense in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You were born during the Great Depression and have lived through many economic cycles, including, of course, 9\/11 and the Great Recession. What\u2019s your advice to young commercial real estate professionals on how to manage through the ebbs and flows of the economy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:<\/strong> There are some people who believe we were present for the panic of 1897 because we go back so far.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, experiencing these ups and downs teaches you a lot. And there are many young people today who really weren\u2019t around or weren\u2019t really fully cognizant of what was transpiring in some of these earlier debacles because, if they were, they would be far more experienced and far more sensitive to the realities that affect our lives in a very positive or negative way.<\/p>\n<p>When things go bad, they tend to go very bad. Many, many times you\u2019ve heard people say that the banks are always there for you. There are others who say, the banks are there for you when you don\u2019t have a need. When the need occurs, so often you\u2019ve heard people say the banks seem to disappear. What happens? Like everything else, when times are bad, the banks tend to withdraw, understandably, and that\u2019s when people have their greatest need\u2014when times are difficult. People have to be sensitive to the realities of life, the ebbs and flows that develop at these times. Conservatism is always intelligent and necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you describe your childhood growing up in Brooklyn and the impact it had on your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004278463\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004278463\" data-attachment-id=\"1004278463\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/executive-spotlight-larry-silverstein-silverstein-properties\/3-wtc-and-4-wtc-september-24-2018-credit-joe-woolhead\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1800,2773\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1537814393&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"3 WTC and 4 WTC September 24 2018 Credit Joe Woolhead\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;3 World Trade Center &#038; 4 World Trade Center&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?w=665\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004278463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=195,300 195w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=768,1183 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=665,1024 665w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=997,1536 997w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=1329,2048 1329w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=150,231 150w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=300,462 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=696,1072 696w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=1068,1645 1068w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/3-WTC-and-4-WTC-September-24-2018-Credit-Joe-Woolhead.jpg?resize=273,420 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004278463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 World Trade Center &amp; 4 World Trade Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:<\/strong> I grew up in Brooklyn, living on the seventh floor of a six-story walk-up. It was not a very pretty time, not a very happy time. Dragging the ice up for the icebox was\u2014let me tell you\u2014an experience. Life was difficult. It was tough. It was not very pretty at that time. It was a hand-to-mouth existence and it was difficult at best.<\/p>\n<p>Making it through those times was pretty tough and it taught you the facts of a dollar and the importance of not squandering but saving once you made something. It was a time of great learning. There was so much to affect our world as it existed at that time. There was so little available and so much to do and so little with which to do it all. It was not the greatest of times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you get fortunate in life, which I did. Our world improved and I was able to take advantage of some of the benefits that befell us as a result. It\u2019s been a long life. It\u2019s been an interesting one. It was not the prettiest at all times. But happily, we are where we are today and, thankfully, we can look back at it all and say we are happy to have made it through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who was the most influential role model in your childhood? Who did you look up to?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:<\/strong> Clearly, my father, who taught me to treat everybody as I would expect to be treated. Treat everybody with absolute respect. Treat your elders with great sensitivity because they were your elders. They\u2019ve lived longer. They\u2019ve been around more. And become a good listener and hear what people have to say. That\u2019s something that I think back to from my earliest days and appreciate the good that my father was able to teach me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did it ultimately fit into your career in commercial real estate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004278469\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004278469\" data-attachment-id=\"1004278469\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/executive-spotlight-larry-silverstein-silverstein-properties\/dbox_big_wtc-t2_wfc-day\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2498,2498\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;dbox&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;dbox is a branding and creative agency specializing in 3D renderings, web design, graphic design, branding, rebranding, web development, interactive, real estate media strategy, website development, visual communications, interactive design, corporate identity development, logo design, packaging design and online marketing. dbox provides integrated marketing services such as brand strategy, product \\u0026amp; service launch strategies, positioning, naming, and web strategy. dbox has studios in London, New York and Taiwan.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 dbox&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;DBOX_BIG_WTC T2_WFC day&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DBOX_BIG_WTC T2_WFC day\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Rendering of 2 World Trade second from left.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004278469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg 2498w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=300,300 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=768,768 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=1024,1024 1024w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=1536,1536 1536w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=2048,2048 2048w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=696,696 696w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=1068,1068 1068w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=1920,1920 1920w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/02_2-WTC-HotelRoof_Image-by-DBOX-2.jpg?resize=420,420 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004278469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of 2 World Trade second from left.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:&nbsp;<\/strong>My father made a living as a real estate broker [in lower Manhattan] but it was an extremely difficult time\u2026 [and] the commissions were few and far between. Very often, he had to share them with other brokers.<\/p>\n<p>Life was very difficult and it became obvious to me that, as brokers, we could not really make a decent living. By this time, I\u2019d married and wanted to have a family. I realized we had to change what we were doing as brokers and do something that was more advantageous, where you could make a better living\u2014and that was become an owner.<\/p>\n<p>I remember my father saying to me: \u201cWe have no capital. We have no money. We have no resources. How are we supposed to become an owner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just at that time, there were two people in New York who had just acquired the Empire State Building: a gentleman by the name of Lawrence Wien and another by the name of Harry Helmsley. They acquired the Empire State Building by going out and offering 5,000 investors an opportunity to become a limited partner in the ownership of the Empire State Building. They put it together with small amounts of capital\u2014I think $5,000 each (share)\u2014for which they would acquire the building. It was the most amazing thing. I looked at that and I said to myself and to my father: \u201cIf they can do that with their capital, why can\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My father looked at me and said, \u201cYou can figure it out?\u201d&nbsp;I said, \u201cI sure as hell will try.\u201d And we acquired our first building, a small group of investors\u201420 people\u2014and we each put in $10,000. With that we bought our first piece of real estate, without knowing much of what to do or how to do it. It was really trial and error. We somehow managed, incredulously, to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>We achieved higher rents in the building than we anticipated being able to achieve and, ultimately as a result, were able to refinance the building and give everybody back their money and still retain ownership of the real estate. And with that, everybody said: \u2018Hey, you\u2019re successful. Buy another piece of real estate.\u2019 We now had extra money with which to do it and so we found a second piece, then a third, a fourth. Finally, the banks, who would never lend us anything because we had no assets against which to lend\u2014we had no collateral\u2014agreed to give us whatever we needed in order to buy larger buildings. And by golly, it was really extraordinary being able to do things we never could do before\u2014acquire larger buildings, renovate them, and then, ultimately, construct them. It was a sea change in our lives as a result. The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timing is everything?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:<\/strong> It sure helps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you talk a little about your work building at the World Trade Center site since 1980 when you won the bid to build 7 World Trade Center?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:<\/strong> The Port Authority decided it would not build itself and leased the site out to others who might build it instead. I succeeded in winning the bid to lease the site to build a million-square-foot building on the site. We were able to convince the Port Authority and Con Edison, which had an operating substation on the site, to enable us to build a 2 million-square-foot building and, ultimately, 7 World Trade Center became the occupant of that parcel. We successfully leased (the land) and built it and then leased (the building) and got very fortunate from a timing standpoint. And then of course 9\/11 happened. The building was the last building to come down in 9\/11, and in terms of rebuilding the Trade Center, the first to go back up after 9\/11, and we finished it in \u201806. That became the precursor to the subsequent buildings that went up here in the Trade Center\u2014namely, Tower 4, Tower 3, Tower 1, the Oculus, the memorial park, the memorial museum, now the performing arts center, and, ultimately, Tower 2. The completion of Tower 2 will finish rebuilding the trade center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did it teach you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:<\/strong> There are lessons to be learned from the experiences I\u2019ve had in just the last 17 years since experiencing 9\/11 that you could go on for days or weeks to talk about it. I put them into a book I\u2019ve started and will complete with the last of the buildings to be built here in the Trade Center. Then we\u2019ll publish it. I think it\u2019ll be a piece that\u2019ll be ideal material for future people who want to involve themselves in public-private partnerships, of which this is one.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been exciting. It\u2019s been frustrating. It\u2019s been stimulating. It\u2019s been rewarding. It\u2019s been\u2014you name it. Every conceivable reaction that you could possibly experience in life, I\u2019ve experienced. The book will cover\u2014hopefully 22 years\u2014of the rebuilding of the Trade Center. There was so much to think about and write about when I found myself in the middle of the rebuilding of the Trade Center after 9\/11. So many issues that surface then and there that I\u2019d never dealt with before in my life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is 87 the new 67?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Silverstein:<\/strong> I\u2019ll be in a better position when I make 97.<\/p>\n<p><em>Images courtesy of Silverstein Properties<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran owner and developer shares insights on rebuilding the World Trade Center, his new financing venture and his long and distinguished career in real estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":887,"featured_media":1004278490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44033,21808,23891,21742,10,21744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004278454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-executive-profiles","category-featured","category-national","category-latest","category-northeast","category-people"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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