Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. Appoints Leslie D. Biddle as Board of Director
March 07, 2017 at 05:30 pm EST
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Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. announced that Leslie D. Biddle has joined its Board of Directors, effective March 6, 2017. She is a Partner and President at Serengeti Asset Management. Prior to joining Serengeti in 2013, Ms. Biddle spent nearly 10 years at Goldman Sachs, where she became a Partner and was most recently Global Head of Commodity Sales and the CFO of the firm’s investments in the metals and mining sector. Earlier, Ms. Biddle was a Vice President at the AES Corporation. She also served as a Vice President at the Overseas Investment Corporation.
Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT), which owns and operates a portfolio of office, retail and multifamily assets. The Companyâs portfolio consists of approximately 8.6 million rentable square feet of office space, 0.7 million rentable square feet of retail space and 727 residential units. Its office portfolio included 11 properties encompassing approximately 8.6 million rentable square feet. Nine of these office properties are located in midtown Manhattan and encompass approximately 7.6 million rentable square feet, including the Empire State Building. The Companyâs segments include Real Estate and an Observatory. Real Estate segment includes all activities related to the ownership, management, operation, acquisition, repositioning and disposition of its commercial and multifamily real estate assets, principally office assets, located in Manhattan. Observatory segment operates the 86th and 102nd floor observatories in the Empire State Building.