Larry Silverstein
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1931 –
Who is Larry Silverstein?
Larry A. Silverstein is an American businessman.
Silverstein was born in Brooklyn, and became involved in real estate, together with his father, establishing Silverstein Properties. Silverstein separated from his business partner, Bernard Mendik, in 1977, and bought a number of large office buildings in Midtown and Lower Manhattan in the late 1970s. In 1980, Silverstein won a bid from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to construct 7 World Trade Center, to the north of the World Trade Center site. Silverstein was interested in acquiring the entire World Trade Center complex, and put in a bid when the Port Authority put it up for lease in 2000. Silverstein won the bid when a deal between the initial winner and the Port Authority fell through, and he signed the lease on July 24, 2001.
Soon after the September 11 attacks, Silverstein declared his intent to rebuild, though he and his insurers became embroiled in a multi-year dispute over whether the attacks had constituted one event or two under the terms of the insurance policy, which provided for a maximum of $3.55 billion coverage per event.
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- Born
- May 30, 1931
Bedford-Stuyvesant - Also known as
- Сильверстайн, Ларри
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
- Brooklyn Law School
- The High School of Music & Art
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
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on July 23, 2013
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