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Peter W. Herman is the senior real estate partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and the leader of the Real Estate Department. He received an A.B. degree from Columbia University in 1965 and a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1970. He was an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1965 through 1967.
Mr. Herman has been responsible for legal matters in a wide variety of real estate investment, development and financing transactions for clients in all sectors of the real estate industry during his nearly 37 years at Milbank and he has represented owner/developers in connection with the development and financing of some of the nation's preeminent mixed use real estate projects including L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., the Interstate North Office Park in Atlanta, the CNN Center in Atlanta, Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, the Colgate project in New Jersey and Rockefeller Center in New York.
Mr. Herman is a past Chairman of the Committee on Transportation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a past member of the Committee on Municipal Affairs, the Secretary of the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, a former member of the board of the Columbia Law School Alumni Association, and a member of the Urban Land Institute. He has been a regular columnist on real estate and planning issues for the New York Law Journal. He has served as outside counsel to the Alliance For Downtown New York, the local business improvement district for lower Manhattan, since its inception 10 years ago, and he has been a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's advisory committee on its lower Manhattan access study.
In addition, throughout his professional career, Mr. Herman has been deeply involved in the activities of Regional Plan Association, one of the nation's preeminent private urban planning organizations, initially as its counsel and as a board member, and since 1997 as RPA's Chairman. During his time as RPA Chairman, that organization has pursued the ambitious agenda for the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut metropolitan region set forth in its Third Regional Plan, published in 1996. Among its foremost accomplishments in recent years were RPA's major role in securing Federal, State and private funding to purchase the 15,7000-acre Sterling Forest property for preservation as a state park, the convening of a national brownfields conference to expedite brownfields reclamation and redevelopment, the organization of the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, a coalition of more than 75 business, community and environmental groups which has assumed a leadership role in civic planning and advocacy efforts in support of the rebuilding process, and the return of Governors Island to the people of New York. Regional Plan Association continues to have a prominent role in numerous planning initiatives in the New York region involving open space preservation, transportation and financing of mass transit, housing and community development and smart growth and healthy communities. | 