The building's owner, Anthony Malkin, declined to change his mind this week
Mr. Malkin, 47, is the president of Wien & Malkin, which, through its divisions and partnerships, owns about 10 million square feet of commercial property in the New York area, including the Empire State Building.
Anthony E. Malkin Approach to Investing Anthony E. Malkin is President of Malkin Holdings LLC, Malkin Properties, W&H Properties and Vice Chairman of Malkin Securities Corp.
Mr. Malkin has been associated with Peter L. Malkin since 1989. Altogether these firms comprise the real estate acquisition, management, construction and marketing arm of the Malkin family, which has been active in real estate for four generations. Lawrence A. Wien founded Wien & Malkin in 1929 and in 1934 created the concept of real estate syndication. Mr. Wien and his son-in-law, current chairman Peter L. Malkin, founded W&M Properties in 1965.
The businesses are involved with office, residential, and retail real estate in 17 states and have full in-house capabilities, including: acquisitions, financing, equity raising, engineering, construction, marketing, management, accounting, and cleaning. Mr. Malkin has been a leader in existing building energy efficiency retrofits through coordinating the team of Clinton Climate Initiative, Johnson Controls, Jones Lang LaSalle, and Rocky Mountain Institute in a groundbreaking project at the Empire State Building. Mr. Malkin also leads the Malkin family office in alternative investments outside of real estate in the United States and internationally.
Mr. Malkin is a full member of the Urban Land Institute, member of the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York, member of the Real Estate Roundtable, board member of forestry management company Greenwood Resources, member of the advisory board of MissionPoint Capital Partners, board member of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, member of the Advisory Council of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Center for Market Innovation, and member of the Committee on University Resources of Harvard University. Mr. Malkin regularly guest lectures on real estate and family businesses at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.
Previous to joining Wien & Malkin, Mr. Malkin was associated with Chemical Venture Partners, L.P., a recently formed venture capital and leveraged buyout affiliate of Chemical Bank (now CCMP Capital).
Mr. Malkin received a B.A. degree cum laude in English from Harvard College in 1985.
