Silverstein intends to share roles in historic downtown rebuilding.Silverstein Properties launched two initiatives last week to ensure that minority students and minority/women business enterprises are given the opportunity to participate in the revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. of lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North . In the first initiative, Silverstein Properties will join in a private partnership with Construction Skills 2000, a joint training/apprenticeship program for high school juniors and seniors operated by the Building and Construction Trades Council, the Building Trades Employers' Association, the New York City Department of Education The New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. The school system these schools form is the largest system in the United States. Over 1. , the School Construction Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York–New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c. . In a second initiative, Silverstein Properties will form a Contractor's Opportunity Council as part of a strategy to proactively identify M/WBEs, provide them with information about upcoming projects, and help them meet 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 State and Port Authority qualifications and accreditations so they can work on projects like the World Trade Center rebuilding. With a projected 10,000 construction jobs to be filled each year in the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, Silverstein Properties and Construction Skills 2000 will hold a series of school visit events in communities representing the diversity of the five boroughs. "I believe that minority/ women business enterprises should be given the opportunity to participate in the revitalization of lower Manhattan. Silverstein Properties has shown its commitment to supporting M/WBEs in the rebuilding of 7 World Trade Center and will continue this effort at the rest of the World Trade Center site," Larry Silverstein Larry A. Silverstein (born 1932 in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York) is an American billionaire real estate investor and operator and the head of Silverstein Properties, a real estate development group. said. "All New Yorkers should benefit from the revitalization that results from the rebuilding of the World Trade Center." |
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