Dan Biederman

2019 Manhattan Jewish Hall of Fame Inductee

Biography

Dan Biederman is the founder of Bryant Park Corporation, 34th Street Partnership, and Grand Central Partnership, three of NYC's most successful Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). He currently serves as the President of the former two. In 1980, he co-founded BPC and began the restoration of Bryant Park. Under Biederman's guidance, BPC instituted a program of security, sanitation, capital repair and public event planning that transformed the park from a symbol of urban neglect into a gorgeous, impeccably maintained and crime-free gathering place that became Manhattan's Town Square.

Biederman has extended his role in urban redevelopment outside New York, creating and upgrading award-winning parks and public spaces as a consultant in Los Angeles, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Newark, Houston, Greensboro, Atlanta, and Buffalo.

During his career, through these and other entities, he has revived or built twelve privately-funded and managed urban parks and turned around five troubled neighborhoods, eliminating thousands of annual crimes, and creating directly 2,500 jobs and over $10 billion in real estate value.

His consulting firm, Biederman Redevelopment Ventures Corp., has represented many of the nationâ€™s largest office, retail, and residential developers and owners on public space work, in 30 states and nine countries. Among the professional sports franchises that BRV has helped with place-making are three NFL teams (Jets, Packers, and Falcons), and the San Francisco Giants (in their Mission Rock development).

Biederman is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, with an A.B. in Public Affairs in 1975. He also earned an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School in 1977. He lives in Chappaqua, New York with his wife, Susan Duke Biederman, a fine arts attorney and author, and has two children, Robert, 32, and Brooke, 27.

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Dan Biederman

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