What sets The Durst Organization apart
The firm co-developed One World Trade Center with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a public-private partnership; the 104-floor, 3.1-million-square-foot tower is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere to hold LEED Gold certification, a claim also recorded on Wikipedia.
Durst family member Seymour Durst separately conceived and installed the National Debt Clock, switched on 20 February 1989 at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street and relocated to Anita's Way in 2018; the firm still owns and operates it as a Manhattan landmark. Ownership itself spans multiple generations of the Durst family, a lineage the firm brands as "Generations of Builders."
For a candidate, it signals a firm operating across office towers, luxury residential buildings, and a civic landmark under one roof, broader asset-class exposure than a single-sector landlord offers, though Durst posts roles individually by property or function rather than through a fixed graduating-class programme.