Real Estate Companies and Agendas 2021 and 2030. A Gender for TRANSformation

Real Estate Companies and Agendas 2021 and 2030. A Gender for TRANSformation (pizzagatewhatever)

submitted 6.3 years ago by letsdothis3

It is time to turn our attention to what is happening in the NOW. The business of politics...

The start of a whole new series folks. This is a very rich area of investigation and research...

Putting down some links here for future reference. Apart from a number of real estate companies that I have been looking at over time, it was the following post that turned me on to Dock 72, and so here I will start : The Standard Hotel's new owner is Gaw Capital. Connections with Alphy's Soda Pop Club to Brightest Young Things and Transformer DC.

Dock 72 https://www.dock72.com/meet-the-team/

Partners Rudin Management https://www.rudin.com/about

The Rudin family controls one of the largest privately owned real estate companies in New York City.

Member: Beth Rudin DeWoody – background - major collector of art (held in The Bunker) - runs her family’s foundations – supported Hillary Clinton - home: one eye, swirl and sheep, next picture small boy and hot dog

Here's a Little Sis networking map for Ms Rudin DeWoody : Interlocks between NYPD, New York City Police Foundation, PAL, and Big Business Interests

The New Hot Spot for NYC Office Space: Brooklyn https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-hot-spot-for-nyc-office-space-brooklyn-1486925530

Like many expanding technology companies in New York, 2U Inc. had been on a hunt for office space in a neighborhood setting surrounded by like-minded businesses. It finally found its spot—not in the usual tech precincts of Manhattan, but over the bridge in Brooklyn’s Dumbo area.

The education-technology company this week is expected to sign a lease for almost 80,000 square feet on the upper floors of 55 Prospect St., a building that is part of a 1.2 million-square-foot redevelopment of former industrial buildings called Dumbo Heights. In December, 2U will vacate its 20,000 square feet of space at Chelsea Piers and make the move.

“It’s a big move coming from the cool part of Chelsea to Dumbo, but I think it sort of celebrates how Brooklyn has not only grown but has been established as a creative class,” said Asher Abehsera, chief executive of LIVWRK, which has partnered with Kushner Cos. and RFR Holding to redevelop the Dumbo Heights buildings.

In the past few years, a number of big developers have jumped into Brooklyn with significant redevelopment projects and plans for new ground-up towers from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to downtown Brooklyn and Bushwick.

The Dumbo area, in particular, has pulled a number of tenants from Manhattan’s hot Midtown South neighborhoods. In 2016, advertising agency 72andSunny signed a lease to move from about 13,000 square feet at 30 Cooper Square in Manhattan to 63,000 square feet in the 19th-century warehouse complex called Empire Stores on the Dumbo waterfront. Media firms Laundry Service and Cycle also have signed deals to relocate to Empire Stores this year from 40 W. 25th St. in Manhattan.

Developers say they are expecting an uptick in interest and leasing as the projects get closer to completion. Dock 72, a Brooklyn Navy Yard project anchored by co-working space giant WeWork Cos., will be ready for tenants to build out spaces in 2017. The developers behind it, Rudin Development and Boston Properties Inc., are expecting activity to pick up this spring.

Voat related post on 72andsunny:

Canada Arrests Huawei CFO at Request of U.S. Authorities

[I recommend you read the whole link. Some excerpts...]

A deep, deep, rabbithole.. https://twitter.com/intheMatrixxx/status/1024360652092178435

NXIVM IS BIGGER than we think.

Friend of Annabel Yao - Karlie Kloss https://lbbonline.com/news/supermodel-super-nerd-karlie-kloss-stars-in-new-campaign-for-adidas/

Sure enough, there is a Bronfman connection in Hannah Bronfman. Plus- the creative agency is 72andSunny

72andSunny is an advertising agency with offices in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and New York City . It was founded in 2004 by John Boiler (now CEO), Glenn Cole (now chief creative officer), and Robert Nakata (now design director).[1] Since 2010 it has been a subsidiary of MDC Partners Inc.

MDC Partners was founded as Multi Discipline Communications in 1980[4] in Toronto by Miles Nadal.

Miles Nadal founded Peerage Capital Inc., (subsidiary Artemis Investment Management Limited )

François-Henri Pinault (French: [pino]; born 28 May 1962) is a French businessman, the chairman and CEO of Kering since 2005, and President of Groupe Artémis since 2003. Under his leadership, Kering divested the retail industry and became a luxury group.

François-Henri Pinault is a regular participant, together with his wife, to the investment bank Allen & Co.'s annual weeklong conference organized every year in Sun Valley, Idaho.

The Schumer network: Mark Zuckerberg seen in private talks with New York senator and NFL head Roger Goodell at Allen & Co while Kathryn Murdoch makes rare appearance and Jeff Bezos chats with Fiat heir

(Fiat heir you say? https://imgur.com/a/aVhHtrZ Take a good long look at this image. How is it relevant to this post? Much, much more to come...)

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letsdothis3 6.3 years ago

2U Inc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2U_(company)

2U, Inc. (formerly 2tor Inc.) is an educational technology company that partners with leading nonprofit colleges and universities to offer online degree programs.[2][3][4][5] The company supplies its partner universities with a cloud-based software-as-a-service platform coupled with a suite of technology-enabled services, including coursework design, infrastructural support and capital to deliver instruction to students. 2U was founded in 2008 by John Katzman (founder of The Princeton Review). Co-founders include Chip Paucek (former CEO of Hooked on Phonics) and Jeremy Johnson; Paucek remains with the company as CEO.

Prior to its IPO, the company was venture-backed and raised $96 million. Investors included Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Novak Biddle Venture Partners, City Light Capital, SVB Capital and WestRiver Capital.[9] In September 2017, It was reported that, Rani Hammond joined 2U as Chief People Officer.

Paul Maeder https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=81051&privcapId=20955

Mr. Paul A. Maeder has been Director at Carbon Black, Inc. since September 2015. He is a Founding Partner, Co-Founder, Managing General Partner, General Partner and Chairman at Highland Capital Partners. Mr. Maeder focuses on enterprise technology, robotics, software and factory automation and online education.

He has been the Chairman of the Board at 2U, Inc. since November 2012 and serves as its Director since February 2010. He currently serves as a Member of the Board of Overseers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Board of Overseers of the Boston Museum of Science and The New England Aquarium. Mr. Maeder serves as a Member of the Harvard Stem Cell Advisory Board, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean’s Advisory Group.

John Katzman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Katzman

John Katzman (born October 10, 1959) is best known as an educationalist. He has established a number of companies which assist students with their studies and career choices. He has also authored a number of books on the subject.

Katzman was born in New York City, and grew up there with brother Richard, and sister, Julie.

Julie Katzman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Katzman

Julie Katzman (born December 6, 1961) is the Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank.

She is followed on Twitter by Paolo Zampolli ;-)

https://www.iadb.org/en/about-us/overview

Her husband is Anthony Lake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lake

William Anthony Kirsopp Lake (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

Lake is the grandson of Kirsopp Lake, a member of the Church of England clergy who came from Oxford, England, to America in 1914 to teach New Testament studies at Harvard. Lake's father, Gerard Kirsopp Lake, was a New Deal Democrat, and his mother, Eleanor (née van Someren Hard), a Republican.

Following Clinton's 1996 re-election, he nominated Lake to become the Director of Central Intelligence,[10] but his nomination was withdrawn due to Republican opposition.

Lake was a foreign policy adviser for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, having endorsed him over Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he had worked alongside during the Clinton administration.[13][14] Lake was considered a potential Secretary of State until Senator Clinton was named to the position.

Lawrence Katzman is the father of John and Julie (and Richard) https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=lawrence-katzman&pid=179417168&fhid=2086

Larry Katzman, a widely published cartoonist, successful businessman, avid skier and world traveler, died on March 26th at 93. Born Alvin Lawrence Katzman to Max Katzman and the former Lillian Goldfarb, he grew up in Utica, NY and Brooklyn. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Electrical Engineering, he served in Germany with the US Army Signal Corps in the 3118th Service Group.

Larry worked with his father and later with his son Richard to grow the Kaz Manufacturing Company from a start-up created to sell Max's invention, the electric vaporizer, into a $500 million global consumer appliances company. Larry also served on the boards of The World Presidents Organization and a number of business organizations.

Who Were 2016's Most Active Ed-Tech Investors?

Omidyar Network – investments include Andela, Ellevation, Platzi, Skillshare, Spark Schools, Tinkergarten

Sequoia Capital – investments include BYJU’s, Cuemath, Everwise, VIPKID, Zuoyebang

John Katzman (co-founder of The Princeton Review and 2U) – investments include StudySoup, Tabtor Math, Tinkergarten, Tynker

Richard Branson invested in Codecademy

Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca invested in Brightwheel after the startup appeared on the reality TV show Shark Tank

See also: Peter Thiel’s ed-tech investment portfolio; Mark Zuckerberg’s ed-tech investment portfolio; the Emerson Collective’s ed-tech portfolio; Y Combinator’s ed-tech portfolio; Gates Foundation grant recipients in 2016

Peter Thiel http://hackeducation.com/2016/10/16/thiel-trump-education-technology

Well-known for his libertarian beliefs, Peter Thiel wrote in a 2009 article for the Cato Institute that “Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women – two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians – have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”

Thiel has funded the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. [So has Jeffrey Epstein.]

He’s also a financial backer of OpenAI (along with Elon Musk, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and Y Combinator president Sam Altman), a non-profit research organization

Thiel and his VC firm Founder’s Fund’s Education Technology Investments (since 2010) : Lore (learning management system, formerly Coursekit, acquired by Noodle) - See John Katzman https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-12-01-with-14m-fundraise-noodle-wants-colleges-to-pick-and-choose-how-they-build-online-programs

According to The Atlantic, just five companies—2U, Academic Partnerships, Bisk, Pearson Embanet, and Wiley Education Services—control nearly half of the OPM market

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