Industry loses visionary, John L. Dowling, 66.John L. Dowling, one of the giants of the commercial real estate industry, died on May 4 in Boca Grande, Fla, after suffering from a long illness. He was 66 years old. Perhaps the most influential real estate brokerage professional in the history of the industry, he was founder and president of Dowling & Co. and long-time executive vice president and member of the board of directors of Cushman & Wakefield, Inc., the global real estate services firm based in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . A real estate visionary who helped shape the skylines of America's cities, Mr. Dowling worked with such Fortune 500 companies as General Electric, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , and Texaco during his tenure with Cushman & Wakefield from 1962 to 1999. Mr. Dowling's expertise and longevity were legendary in New York City real estate circles, and his influence was felt on a national scale. He was the top producing broker at Cushman & Wakefield 16 times in 20 years. He represented corporations in real estate negotiations throughout the country, and was respected by numerous merous CEOs as their real estate advisor. A profile in The Wall Street Journal quoted Harold Hicks, a Gulf Oil executive as calling Mr. Dowling "the finest real estate broker in the United States." Crain's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Business, in an October 1988 profile of the top real estate professionals in New York said, "Mr. Dowling is perhaps the name that first comes to mind when asked to identify the best in the business." In the same year, the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 said "he is widely regarded as the country's best real estate broker." He was quoted frequently on commercial real estate in The New York Times during his career. A graduate of Tufts University (AB, 1959), Mr. Dowling served as director of Tufts University Development Corporation, a subsidiary company formed to develop real estate in Boston's financial district at South Station. He contributed his knowledge of the real estate world to help secure a development partner for the project. In 1997 he was elected to the Tufts University Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. . His professional associations included membership in the Urban Land Institute, the Real Estate Board of New York and the Committee on University Resources of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College. Mr. Dowling volunteered time and resources to many organizations over the years, including the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York; the Cardinal's Committee for the Laity in New York; Harvard University, Committee on University Resources; the Archdiocese of New York, and the Graduate School of the New School for Social Research New School for Social Research: see New School Univ. . He served in the 7th Regiment of the U.S. Army National Guard. He was also a member of University Club, the Anglers' Club of New York, Pequot Yacht Club, Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club, and The Links Club. Mr. Dowling was born on June 19, 1937 in Scarsdale, New York “Scarsdale” redirects here. For other uses, see Scarsdale (disambiguation). Scarsdale is both a town and village in Westchester County, New York, United States postal code 10583. It is a northern suburb of New York City. . He graduated from Stepinac High School in White Plains, N.Y. before going on to Tufts. He is survived by his wife, Hebe Sanders Dowling, their three children, Meaghan Dowling Chorske, of San Francisco; John Waterhouse Dowling, and Peter Sanders Dowling, both of New York City, and one grandchild, John Sanders Chorske, of San Francisco. |
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