Robert Tishman
| Robert V. Tishman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 7, 1916 Manhattan |
| Died | October 11, 2010 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Real estate developer |
| Known for | co-founder of Tishman Speyer |
| Spouse(s) | Phyllis Gordon (m. 1941; d. 1985) |
| Children | Lynne Tishman Speyer Nancy Tishman Gonchar |
| Family |
Paul Tishman (uncle) John L. Tishman (cousin) Jerry Speyer (son-in-law) Alan V. Tishman (brother) |
Robert Valentine Tishman (April 7, 1916 – October 11, 2010) was an American real estate developer who had been head of the family-owned firm Tishman Realty and Construction until it was disestablished in 1977, and was one of the two founding partners of Tishman Speyer, which was formed in 1978 and became one of the largest owners and builders of office buildings in the United States.
Tishman was born on April 7, 1916, into a Jewish family in Manhattan. His father David Tishman headed Tishman Realty & Construction, a firm established by Robert's grandfather Julius Tishman in 1898 with the construction of a six-story tenement building on the Lower East Side that was built using the proceeds of his department store in Upstate New York. He attended the Horace Mann School and earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1937, where he was elected to the Sphinx Head honor society and was the editor of the Cornell Widow, and also attended Columbia Law School. He was married in June 1941 to the former Phyllis Gordon, who had attended Wellesley College and the New York University School of Law, in a ceremony held at the Lombardy Hotel and officiated by Rabbi Nathan A. Perilman of Temple Emanu-El. During World War II, Tishman served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Ocean.
After completing his military service, he went back to work with the family business. During the 1960s and 1970s, Tishman was president and chief executive officer of Tishman Realty and Construction, where he oversaw building projects that included Madison Square Garden, the World Trade Center and the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue. Expanding outside of New York City, the firm's projects included the Century Plaza Towers in Los Angeles commissioned by Alcoa, the John Hancock Center in Chicago and Detroit's Renaissance Center. In a 1968 interview with Business Week magazine, Tishman described the company as "an intercompany conglomerate" that could identify building sites and help in all phases of design, financing and construction, offering "capabilities that no other owner-builder or general contractor matches".
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