Jon Minikes Shares Insights from a Lifetime of Learning, Work
Cornell Program in Real Estate Industry Seminar
Date: August 30, 2007
When: 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Where: Beck 198
Admittance: By Invitation Only
The Cornell Program in Real Estate Industry Seminar begins its Fall 2007 series by welcoming Jon Minikes AB’60, JD‘62 to the podium. Mr. Minikes will share insights and advice gleaned from a multi-faceted career in real estate law and investment.
Mr. Minikes received his undergraduate and law degrees from Cornell University, as well as an LLM in International Law from the New York University School of Law. Following law school, he was a practicing attorney specializing in international law and real estate. From 1968 to 1972 was Vice President of Uris Buildings Corporation, investment builders.
In the mid-1980s, Mr. Minikes was a Managing Director of Jones Lang Wootton (now part of Jones Lang LaSalle) where he specialized in real estate investments in the United States on behalf of European and Far Eastern institutions, and most recently served as President and CEO of Milstein Brothers Realty Investors, a real estate investment and consulting firm that led the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the privatization of the World Trade Center.
A longstanding civic supporter, he served for six years as a member of the Manhattan Community Board encompassing Midtown Manhattan, and as a Director of the Association for a Better New York. Mr. Minikes also taught real estate joint ventures at New York University and served on the Real Property Law and Immigration Law Committees of the Association for the Bar of the City of New York.
Since moving to Ithaca in 2002, Mr. Minikes has served as a member of the Cornell University Council, the Cornell Real Estate Council, and continues to assist the students of the Program in Real Estate with career development and competition coaching.