The Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization is delighted to recognize these outstanding individuals and organizations at our upcoming Annual Gala on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 from 6 PM to 9 PM at New York Marriott Marquis in Manhattan.
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Meet our Awardees!
MaryAnne Gilmartin
Real Estate Developer, Founder & CEO, Mag Partners
MaryAnne Gilmartin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MAG Partners, a WBE-certified real estate development company she founded in 2018.
Today, the company has a $1B development pipeline in New York, including Ruby at 243 W. 28th Street, a mixed-income residential building designed by COOKFOX that reached 98 percent occupancy in Summer 2024. Two other luxury residential buildings, Mabel at 335 Eighth Avenue and Anagram Turtle Bay at 300 East 50th Street, began leasing in Summer 2025. In partnership with Sagamore Ventures – the family office of Under Armour Founder and CEO Kevin Plank – Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and MacFarlane Partners, MAG Partners is leading the development of Baltimore Peninsula, a 235-acre masterplan in Baltimore, MD. MAG Partners is also managing the lease up and operations of 1.1M SF of office, retail, and residential development located on a prime waterfront location.
MaryAnne previously served as President and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies, where she oversaw a period of game-changing ground-up development and managed its multimillion square foot residential, commercial and retail portfolio. MaryAnne also served as Chair of the Board of Directors and interim Chief Executive Officer of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation.
In her tenure at Forest City Ratner Companies, MaryAnne spearheaded the development of some of the most high-profile real estate projects in New York City. She led the efforts to build Barclays Center, the state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue and the centerpiece of the $4.9 billion, 22-acre mixed-use Pacific Park Brooklyn development. She also oversaw the development of The New York Times Building, designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano; New York by Gehry, designed by award-winning architect Frank Gehry; and the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech, a new office building that is a first-of-its-kind space for tech innovation, designed by Weiss/Manfredi on Roosevelt Island.
MaryAnne is a civic leader in the New York metropolitan area, serving as Chair Emeritus of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, member of the Board of Trustees of The Brooklyn Academy of Music, member of the New York Public Radio Board of Trustees, and a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Governors of The Real Estate Board of New York. At Columbia University, MaryAnne is part of the Industry Advisory Board of the MS Real Estate Development Program as well as a member of the real estate advisory board in the Center for AI in Business Analytics & FinTech. In addition to her civic and industry board service, MaryAnne was appointed a member of the board of directors of the global investment banking firm Jefferies Group LLC in 2014, and is currently chair of the ESG, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.
Gina Bocra
Vice President, WSP
Gina Bocra, AIA, LEED Fellow, is a Vice President with the Built Ecology team at WSP. Throughout her 30-year career, Gina has been a champion for high-performance, safe, and resilient buildings that contribute to the health and wellbeing of their occupants.
Before joining WSP, Gina led the New York City Department of Building’s team of architects and engineers tasked with implementing and enforcing New York City’s sustainability laws regulating buildings, including Local Law 97, NYC’s landmark carbon emissions law, and led development and maintenance of the New York City Energy Conservation Code. Prior to her work in the public sector, Gina was Director of Sustainable Design at two architecture firms, delivering sustainability and design services on higher education, commercial, institutional, government, healthcare, and master planning projects. Throughout her career, she has volunteered with the US Green Building Council, the American Institute of Architects, the International Code Council, and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers.
St. John’s Terminal
Google in Partnership with Oxford Properties, COOKFOX Architects, Genslar, and Project Team
Google is helping to revive St. John’s Terminal building, deepening its investment in New York City.
St. John’s Terminal serves as the New York headquarters for Google’s global business organization, with a two-story events hub purposefully designed to support collaboration with our clients and partners.
St. John’s Terminal represents a fundamental shift to a workplace designed around teams first. It features a diverse mix of work spaces throughout the building to help Googlers connect with each other, build a sense of belonging, and accelerate the innovations that power our business.
In support of its sustainability goals, the new building is projected to have fewer embodied carbon emissions through an adaptive reuse of the existing structure. It provides roughly 1.5 acres of nature planted with New York native species, honors the site’s waterfront legacy, and reconnects the community to the Hudson River.
555 Greenwich
Hudson Square Properties (Trinity Church, Norges Bank, & Hines) in Partnership with COOKFOX Architects, and JB&B
555 Greenwich, completed as New York City’s first entirely fossil-fuel-free commercial office building, employs a revolutionary infrastructure that breaks new ground for sustainable design. A client team with foresight and vision, working with a stellar design team, developed an intricate system of advanced technologies to create a building in full compliance with city and state carbon-cap goals. The project was brought in on budget and two months from the initially scheduled completion date.
555 met the challenge of designing thoroughly sustainable systems for a first-of-its kind building—and then coordinating those systems with those of 345 Hudson, the existing building to which the first-of-its-kind was being attached. The solution was an ingenious and intricate weave of innovative systems—DOAS, geothermal heating and cooling, industrial scale air-source heat pumps, radiant heating and cooling, increased air filtration—previously unseen in a commercial office building in NYC.
To facilitate the building’s floor-by-floor alignment with 345 Hudson, 555 was designed as a concrete structure. The concrete structure made utilizing this thermal mass as a radiant resource an ideal solution for serving the occupied space of the building; radiating to both the floor above and the floor below, the energy is stored by the concrete slabs, thus acting as a battery for the building’s HVAC systems. The structural foundation is also integrated into 555’s geothermal system, with geothermal tubing incorporated into the cast-in-place foundation caissons. The two buildings are interconnected with a thermal network designed to shift heating and cooling energy between the structures, thus maximizing the HVAC system efficiency of each.
The Hudson Square area of Manhattan has in recent years transitioned from being “the printing district” to a hub for media/tech/entertainment companies, and 555 is emblematic of this vibrant social and economic revival. Its innovative orchestration of technologies toward the dramatic reduction of energy use and carbon production has put it at the leading edge of New York City and New York State carbon-reduction initiatives, and the building is expected to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
As 555’s infrastructure is among the first to be designed post-NYC LL97, the client and design team committed to advanced technologies that set a new standard for benchmarking efficiency. The building’s “circular energy infrastructure” is a first, combining a fully integrated radiant heating/cooling system and closed-loop geothermal system with air-source heat pumps. From the start, there was a collective commitment to create a community-facing building that embodied the highest energy-efficiency/carbon-reduction values, and 555 aptly demonstrates how creative, forward-thinking engineering can significantly move the needle on sustainability.
In the end, 555 far exceeded everyone’s expectations—especially the client’s—and the solutions to the challenges it posed went far beyond the satisfactions of practical problem-solving to point instead beyond the project’s immediate problems to an entirely reimagined built environment.
Women of Carbon Documentary Film
Producers: Basia & Leonard Myszynski
A groundbreaking documentary on women transforming construction while combating climate change. Echoing the spirit of the original Industrial Revolution, these visionary women are on a quest to inspire change for a sustainable planet. Their innovative work places them at the core of decarbonization, human health and economic opportunity. Directed by Basia + Leonard Myszynski, “Women of Carbon” shares their empowering journeys and collective vision for a better world.
Raina Maiga
Climate Advocate & CEO, Compleyes.ai
Raina Maiga is a nationally recognized youth climate leader, organizer, climate tech entrepreneur, and Brower Youth Award winner. As Executive Director of Confront the Climate Crisis, she co-authored three climate policy bills backed by over 25,000 supporters and major institutions including Duke Energy and Subaru. Raina also served as Director of the Youth Environmental Press Team, raising $87,000 to support youth environmental journalism and distributing over 1,200 magazines to schools and communities across multiple states in the Midwest. She is the founder of Compleyes, a climate tech startup focused on automating environmental compliance for manufacturers, funded and backed by the Applied Research Institute (ARI). Raina is currently a freshman at Cornell University studying Environment & Sustainability.
H.E. Talal Abu Ghazaleh
Former Chair of UN Global Alliance, ICT & Development
Talal Abu Ghazaleh is the chairman and founder of the Jordan-based international organization, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org). He has been called the godfather of Arab accounting and been credited with promoting the importance of Intellectual Property in the Arab region.
Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh designed and produced TAGI TOP – a top of the line laptop with the portability of a netbook. His Knowledge Society is one of the foremost initiatives by HE Senator Talal Abu-Ghazaleh that empowers young Arabs under the TAG-Org’s corporate responsibility. He has published multiple dictionaries: Abu-Ghazaleh ICT Directory (2008), The Abu-Ghazaleh Accountancy & Business Dictionary (2001), The Abu-Ghazaleh IP Dictionary (2000), and The Abu-Ghazaleh English-Arabic Dictionary of Accounting (1975). Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh has received many honors, including: Social responsibility awards launched by CSR Regional Network for his work in social initiatives (Kingdom of Bahrain, 2014), Man of the Year Award from Palestine International Institute (Amman, 2012), Honorary Award from the Arab Federation for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (Jordan, 2009), The International Lifetime Achievement Award (Dubai, 2008), IP Hall of Fame Inductee in the IP Hall of Fame Academy (Chicago, USA, 2007), Honorary Doctor of humane Letters (Canisius College, New York, 1988), Decoration of the Republic of Tunisia (1985), Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur (France, 1985), etc. Besides being the chair of the Honorary Council Members of the Consortium of Sustainable Development, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh has been chair of Global Alliance for ICT and Development (2009-2010), Vice Chairman Board of Directors of UN Global Compact (2007-2008), Vice Chair of the UN Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (2001-2004), and many others.