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New Verizons
Panel Discussion
Carol Willis, Introductory Remarks
Douglas Winshall, Executive Vice President, Taconic Investment Partners
Rick Cook, Partner, Cook + Fox Architects LLP
Carol Willis Introduces Frank Frankini
Frank Frankini, Senior Vice President, Equity Office Properties
Dan Shannon, Partner, Moed de Armas & Shannon Architects
Douglas Mass, President, Cosentini Associates
Panel Discussion
Nearly four hundred years after its founding, New York, which grew and grew through "creative destruction," is a mature metropolis. How can the city adapt and advance in the 21st century? "New Verizons" looks at the high-value real estate portfolio of buildings erected for 20th-century telephone technology and how developers, architects, and engineers are retrofitting and re-positioning these properties.