Word: tishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three skyscrapers, the only 100-story structures abuilding anywhere, are the handiwork of a remarkable general contractor: Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co. Long prominent as a builder and manager of its own apartments and offices, Tishman has spread not only into building for others but into research and consulting, fields where few construction firms venture. Explains President Robert V. Tishman: "I got tired of seeing everybody else grabbing up our ideas-for nothing...
From Home to Office. Working with such blue-chip clients as Alcoa, Dow Chemical, U.S. Steel and U.S. Gypsum, Tishman researchers have devised such cost savers as movable wall panels for faster changes in floor plans, noise-stifling floor-assembly systems, prefabrication techniques for kitchen-bathroom cores used in slum rehabilitation. Having built $630 million worth of structures across the U.S.-everything from a Philadelphia industrial park to Los Angeles' Sheraton Wilshire Motor Inn-the company also has accumulated a salable store of insight into construction intricacies. For a consulting fee equal to 1% of the total cost, says...
...Tishman's grandfather started the business in 1898 by building and owning tenements in Lower Manhattan. Since Bob, 51, took command of the firm in 1962, he has sold all but two of the 21 rental-housing projects that the company built following World War II, including all its holdings in rent-controlled New York City. The emphasis now is on a different kind of operation. Today the company operates 23 large office buildings, mostly in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Cleveland; it owns more office space (5,775,000 sq. ft.) than the total available in Denver...
Died. Norman Tishman, 65, big-city real estate developer who, with his four brothers, anticipated the transformation of Manhattan's Park Avenue from a high-income residential address to an ideal office-building location with construction of the Universal Pictures Building in 1947, then cashed in ($156 million assets last year) on the high-rise building boom across the U.S.; of a disease of the nervous system; in Manhattan...
With such backers as F. Ruben Batista, son of the former Cuban dictator, General Anastasio Somoza Jr., army chief in Nicaragua, Huntington Hartford and Realtor Paul Tishman, El Tiempo takes a more conservative political line than El Diario, which is so ardently Democratic that it would not identify a prominent local Republican when he appeared in a picture...