Arthur Joseph Lipton
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Arthur Joseph Lipton: Goodbye to Eastern – Goodbye to Spirit
I started my private pilot career flying a Cessna 150 out of Lakefront Airport in New Orleans in 1971. As a 17 year old engineering student at Tulane University, on Saturday mornings, I would bicycle from the beautiful New Orleans Flower district 16 miles, to take my lesson, then bike back to the University campus.…
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Arthur Joseph Lipton on the Long View in Housing Development
During the colorful and outspoken “How’m I doing?” administration of New York City Mayor Edward Koch, Arthur Joseph Lipton, widely known professionally as Joseph Lipton, led the purchase of a land parcel on Manhattan’s West 41st Street to develop a 100-unit apartment building in the heart of the city. Construction of the building was aided by Sam…
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Arthur Joseph Lipton on Management Through Crisis
One of the great challenges in my real estate development experience was working as a partner with Gary Barnett and Extell on the development, construction, marketing and international sales of the International Gem Tower a 740,000 steel and glass office tower in the heart of midtown Manhattan. The Financial crash of 2008 stopped new building…