Chairman’s Award Honoring Robert Selsam of Boston Properties Sets Record
Chairman's Award Honoree Robert Selsam of Boston Properties and Conservancy Board Chair Stuart N. Siegel
Chairman of the Durst Organization and Conservancy Board member Douglas Durst
Robert Selsam of Boston Properties
Harvard Hall
CEO of F.J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc., and Conservancy Board member Frank J. Sciame, Jr.
New York Building Congress President Richard Anderson Honors Selsam at the Awards
Ronay Menschel, Chairman of Phipps Houses
Conservancy President Peg Breen
Conservancy Board Secretary Joan O. Camins, Robert Selsam and Conservancy Board Member Sandra Faith Warshawsky at the Chairman's Award reception.
More than 200 people turned out to honor Robert Selsam of Boston Properties at The New York Landmarks Conservancy’s Chairman’s Award luncheon on September 23 at The Harvard Club. The event raised a record $100,000.
The Chairman’s Award honors prominent business leaders and companies who demonstrate their dedication to the preservation of New York’s rich architectural heritage.
Mr. Selsam is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of the Salvadori Center, which he headed since 2003. The Center provides professional development for teachers and project-based learning experiences for students to master the math and science embedded in the built environment around them, which also promotes an appreciation of architecture. The Center is active in a dozen New York City public schools, ten New York City Housing Authority After School centers and trains 400 teachers a year in its techniques.
Before joining Boston Properties in 1984, Mr. Selsam was the Director of Planning for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He is a Governor of the Real Estate Board of New York and Executive Vice President of the Associated Builders and Owners of Greater New York.
He also serves on the Board of the New York Building Congress and is a Trustee of Phipps Houses.
Previous Chairman’s Award recipients include: Richard D. Parsons, then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dime Savings Bank of New York received the award that year. Other prominent recipients include Cartier, Inc., the Hearst Corporation, Arthur L. Carter, Aby Rosen, Robert Levine, Donald Oresman, Frank J. Sciame, Jr. and Tony Goldman.
