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Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein is an American billionaire businessman. Among his real estate projects, he is the developer of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, as well as one of New York's tallest residential towers at 30 Park Place, where he owns a home. As of December 2024, he had an estimated net worth of US$1 billion according to Forbes.
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business · American businessman (born 1931) · architect · real estate agent · financier · also Larry Silverstein, Larry A. Silverstein, Silverstein
Born 30 May 1931 · Q463668
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2026· 4 entries
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2025· 2 entries
New York Post: World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein’s bid for NYC casino gets a big boost
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CBS News: Could a casino in Hell's Kitchen work? NYC developer Larry Silverstein bets on it.
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2024· 6 entries
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The Business Journals: With 9/11 top of mind, Larry Silverstein keeps working on rebuilding the World Trade Center campus
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Commercial Observer: Larry Silverstein On Lower Manhattan 23 Years After 9/11
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Business Insider: Property mogul Larry Silverstein looks back on the arduous rebuilding of Ground Zero
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Larry Silverstein, WTC developer, got $1 trillion insurance payout from Baltimore bridge” Made-Up Story.
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Silverstein released his memoir, The Rising: The Twenty-Year Battle to Rebuild the World Trade Center, about the events leading up to his purchase of the World Trade Center, his experiences on and subsequent to 9/11, and
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2023· 1 entry
The Real Deal: Larry Silverstein talks conversions, casinos and his new lease on life
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2020· 1 entry
Silverstein Properties acquired the U
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2018· 1 entry
While 2 World Trade Center has yet to be completed, having been delayed indefinitely because of the loss of a prospective anchor tenant
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2017· 1 entry
Silverstein delivered the keynote address to the School of Medicine's graduating class, which included seven Silverstein Scholars
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2016· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “World Trade Center leaseholder Larry Silverstein bought terrorism insurance two months before 9/11, then collected double its value on the grounds that there were two attacks.” Mixture.
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2012· 2 entries
Silverstein donated $5 million to Hunter College, his wife Klara's alma mater, to fund the Klara and Larry Silverstein Student Success Center
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In 2012, Silverstein donated $5 million to Hunter College, his wife Klara's alma mater, to fund the Klara and Larry Silverstein Student Success Center.
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2006· 1 entry
And by the end of September 2011, was fully leased
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2004· 3 entries
That nine insurers were subject to the "two occurrences" interpretation and, therefore, liable for a maximum of double the face value of those particular policies ($2
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Finding that the company was also subject to the "one-occurrence" interpretation
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That ten of the insurers in this group were subject to the "one occurrence" interpretation, so their liability was limited to the face value of those policies, and three insurers were added to the second trial group
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2001· 2 entries
In partnership with Westfield America, Inc
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Silverstein declared his intent to rebuild, though he and his insurers became embroiled in a multi-year dispute over whether the attacks had constituted one event or two under the terms of the insurance policy, which pro
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1995· 1 entry
On a campaign of cutting costs, including privatizing the World Trade Center
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1991· 1 entry
Set aside 20 floors of 120 Wall Street to be leased by non-profit organizations, as an Association Center, with tax incentives for the tenants and bonds for Silverstein to undertake building renovations
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1989· 1 entry
Silverstein proposed to members of the Israeli government that a free trade zone should be created within the Negev region of Israel
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1983· 1 entry
Sold the building at 711 Fifth Avenue to Coca-Cola for $57
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1980· 4 entries
Silverstein won a bid to lease and develop the last undeveloped parcel from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to build the 47-story 7 World Trade Center
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Silverstein bought the building at 120 Wall Street, which was constructed in 1930
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Renovated the building at 11 West 42nd Street, and acquired the lease for the Equitable Building at 120 Broadway
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Won a bid from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to construct 7 World Trade Center on Vesey Street, just north of the main World Trade Center site
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1977· 2 entries
Mendik divorced Annette Silverstein Mendik, and the business partnership also ended at that time
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And bought a number of large office buildings in Midtown and Lower Manhattan in the late 1970s
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1957· 1 entry
Established Silverstein Properties, as Harry G
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1956· 1 entry
And had three children: Lisa, Roger and Sharon
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-05-30.
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