Building Congress Event
Annual Membership Meeting & Construction Industry Luncheon Forum
New York Building Congress Welcomes Mort Zuckerman to Annual Membership Meeting
More than 400 design, construction and real estate industry leaders, undeterred by a foot of newly fallen snow, gathered at the Mandarin Oriental on January 27 for the New York Building Congress Annual Membership Meeting and Luncheon Forum, featuring Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Boston Properties.
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After describing an economy that is still in crisis, Mr. Zuckerman, who also is the Publisher of the Daily News, advocated major federal infrastructure investment as one of the keys to a recovery.
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Mr. Zuckerman said the federal government’s initial stimulus package was heavily tilted in favor of social services spending over infrastructure projects. “Construction jobs spin off other non-construction jobs,” he said, adding, “A national infrastructure program would double the amount of jobs that are created by social service spending. We have to find those expenditures that are job-multipliers.”
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