Christopher Albanese

Biography: Christopher V. Albanese is President of the Albanese Organiza tion, a full-service real estate development and management firm with over 70 years of experience in residential, co mmercial office, educational and institutio nal real estate. The company has bui lt and/or renovated over five million square feet of real estate in the New York metrop olitan area and has approximate ly 45 employees. Notable projects include 512 West 22nd Street, a 180,000 square foot, Class A comme rcial office building currently under development in West Che lsea on the High Line; and the recently completed 140,000 square foot, 293-room Hilton Homewood Suites Hotel on West 37th Street off 8th Avenue. The company is also currently serving as deve lopment manager for 50 West Street, a $30 0 + million, 500,000 square foot, luxury residential condominium tower in lower Manhattan. Mr. Albanese received a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from St. John's University Schoo l of Law, where he was a member of and published in the St. John's Law Rev ie w. Mr. Albanese is a Board Member of both the Center for Hearing and Communication and New Ground, Inc. He has been an invited speaker at numerous professional real estate forums to discuss real estate development and financing.