Alexander Twining

Biografía: Alex Twining is President and CEO of Twining Properties which has participated in over 4 msf of development in New York City and Boston. Projects include the 500,000 sf Watermark Kendall and 300,000 sf Watermark Central both in Cambridge, 150,000 sf Watermark LIC and the 1 msf mixed use tower 440 West 42nd Street both in NYC and the 2.5 msf residential component of Seaport Square overlooking the Boston Harbor including the 300,000 sf Watermark Seaport. Twining has been a real estate developer for over 25 years. He has structured $2 B in equity and debt capital transactions and negotiated numerous complex acquisitions, land assemblages and joint ventures. Twining was CEO of MetroNexus, a Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds Enterprise which managed the redevelopment of a 3 msf portfolio in the US and Canada. At Morgan Stanley he worked with its real estate, venture capital and telecom groups to launch a $1.25 B global platform. Twining also managed $3.0 B of Morgan Stanley's most complex real estate investments, including $1.2 B of acquisitions and over $750 M of dispositions. Mr. Twining's focus at Morgan Stanley was on large scale development properties including The Woodlands, a 25,000-acre new town in Texas, John Buck Company's 3 msf North Bridge, urban mixed-used development in Chicago and The Gale Company’s 6 msf national office portfolio including the 1 msf One Lincoln Street. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1998, Twining was an officer of AvalonBay Communities, a $4 B multi-family REIT where he expanded the suburban garden apartment company into urban residential development, creating the management team and a pipeline of 3,000 apartments. For Colgate Palmolive he directed the development of the $2 B, 8 msf Colgate Center in NJ. He was Regional Partner for FD Rich Companies' Boston office overseeing a 2 msf mixed use hotel, office and retail development and directed an 800,000 square foot mixed use hotel residential and office development for BF Saul Company, halfway between the White House and US Capitol in Washington, DC. Mr. Twining is a ULI Governor & Trustee, an architect and real estate broker and serves on the Dean’s Council of the Yale School of Architecture. He received both a BA and a MArch from Yale University. He has lectured and taught at Yale, MIT, NYU and Columbia.