The Daily Dirt: It’s lonely at the top for women in CRE
“How would you feel about being called Peaches?” That’s what Mary Ann Tighe asked MaryAnne Gilmartin after brokering Forest City Ratner’s deal to develop The New York Times headquarters in 2000. The idea came mid-pitch, after Tighe realized Gilmartin’s firm would get the job, meaning two women with the same name (different spellings) would be leading the project. “I said to the assembled group, ‘Oh no, we’ll have two Mary Anns,’” Tighe recalled at a recent Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network event. “I’ll always remember them looking at me in horror. I said maybe we should do what they […]
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