(From left: Steve Witkoff, Lauren Witkoff)/ Photo by Betsy Kim
NEW YORK CITY—As the keynote presentation at Anchin's 5th Annual Construction and Development Forum, Steve Witkoff, the founder, chair and CEO of the Witkoff Group and his wife Lauren, the EVP, sales & marketing at the firm, discussed what it takes to “make it” or build in New York City and elsewhere in the country. The following edited excerpts highlight their Q&A held at the New York Academy of Sciences at 7 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday.
Lauren: Can you talk about how you built the company?
Steve: I was a lawyer. I met Larry Gluck who is still my very good friend and we started a company called Stellar Management. It stood for Steve and Larry. We started buying in Washington Heights, and the Northwest Bronx.
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Betsy Kim
Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.
