Nonetheless, for a relatively modest real estate operation, it is an expansive and praiseworthy gesture.
That helps explain why its internal real estate operation now has about 80 full-time employees.
Wilpon did say that Sterling's real estate operation, the core of his business empire, was going well.
The company was largely reconstituted as a real estate operation that sought to rent out the decrepit buildings.
A former lawyer who spent years inside Donald Trump's casino and real estate operation, Mr. Ribis today oversees the troubled Resorts casino in Atlantic City.
And its real-estate operation not only owns Brazil's largest mall, but has developments in Spain and has designs on Germany.Similarly, BCP has pooled its insurance interests with those of Achmea, a Dutch insurer.
Another proponent of seizing the day is Joe Kazickas, who earlier this year decided to take an "alternative approach" and come up with a "more efficient way" of running a real estate operation.
Mostly, I went exploring with Dave Perrault, an American who'd given up day-trading to start a real estate operation here, and his partner Tomas Martinovic, a Montenegrin who was born and raised in Sweden.
"Having a separate access to accommodate the 'comings and goings,' which so typify today's family life, is a successful way to ensure everyone feels independent," said Hugo Thistlethwayte, managing director of the real estate operation Prime Purchase, a subsidiary of Savills.
The program, it turned out, was presented not by one of New York's major classical music organizations but by the building's landlord, Brookfield Office Properties, a high-end commercial real estate operation that has emerged as a surprisingly significant player in the arts presentation business since 1988, when it established Arts Brookfield, its cultural arm.
