Siegel named Urban Pioneer by LES Tenement Museum.CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. announced that Stephen B. Siegel, the firm's chairman of Global Brokerage, has been named an Urban Pioneer by the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in 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 . Siegel was honored for his contributions to the museum and for his accomplishments in commercial real estate nationwide and throughout Europe, East Asia East Asia A region of Asia coextensive with the Far East. East Asian adj. & n. , and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . Siegel is widely regarded in commercial real estate circles as one of the industry's most talented and prolific professionals. In 2005, he was featured in the Urban Land Institute's book, Leadership Legacies: Lessons Learned from Ten Real Estate Legends. The previous year, Mr. Siegel was honored with Commercial Property News' Lifetime Achievement Award and named by Crain's as one of the 100 most influential business leaders 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. . His business acumen is matched only by his enthusiasm for New York City history and his own immigrant roots. In recent years, Siegel has devoted not only time and energy but also financial support to the Museum's expansion efforts. Located at 97 Orchard Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, an immigrant portal for more than two centuries, the Museum's tenement building was home to an estimated 7,000 people from more than 20 nations between 1863 and 1935. To date, the Museum has restored five apartments and interpreted the lives of many of the families who owned, lived and/or kept shop in the tenement building. |
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