New York City was crushed this week by the meaningless shooting at 345 Park Avenue in Manhattan, and the real estate community was mainly struck by the tragedy.
On Monday evening, a man opened fire on Rudin Management. In the end, four people were killed in the incident, as well as De Schutter, later identified as Shane Devon Tamura, 27, Van Las Vegas, who died of a self -inflicted shot wound.
The motive is unclear, although the perpetrator claimed to suffer from CTE, a neurodegenerative disease linked to head trauma, sometimes raised in tragic incidents in which former football players were involved; The NFL has its head office at 345 Park.
One of the killed was a young employee at Rudin, Julia Hyman, who was murdered when the shooter reportedly accidentally went to the 33rd floor, where Rudin is located. She had a stint as a summer trainee at Newmark before she worked at the real estate investment firm Sagehall, according to her LinkedIn profile. She came to Rudin as an employee in November.
Another victim was the 43-year-old Wesley Lepatner, the Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust. She took over that role in January from the retiring Frank Cohen and took the lead of the Breit of $ 55 billion – one of the largest Reit’s in the world through net assets, making it one of the most prominent women in the industry.
“Words cannot express the destruction we feel,” said Blackstone in a statement. “Wesley was a beloved member of the Blackstone family and will be missed very much. She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous and deeply respected within our company and then.”
Her death sent shock waves through the real estate sector, which led to an outpouring of Lepatner’s colleagues and colleagues when they went to social media to remember her.
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“She made time for so many of us – especially junior women at Blackstone – always guidance, support, and was a powerful example of how to lead with strength and compassion,” Blackstone director Susan Webster Murphy.
Chief Executive Officer Steven Schwarzman called Lepatner “an incredible woman who had an infectious energy and inner light – a light that will shine much brighter than the shadow that is cast by this meaningless tragedy.”
The day after the shooting, increased security was noticeable in office buildings in Manhattan: more suitable employees in the lobbies and police officers stationed in the vicinity of entrances.
RXR, one of the largest commercial real estate owners of the city, belonged to the landlords to respond, which increased security patrols and security guidance visits to its buildings from an abundance of caution, according to a company spokesperson.
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