Longua to Lead NYU REIT Center

New York University has appointed Lawrence Longua to be director of the NYU REIT Center, a forum for the study and analysis of publicly traded real estate investment trusts within NYU's Real Estate Institute.Mr. Longua is an associate professor in NYU's graduate real estate program as well as the senior managing director of Multi Capital Group, a real estate investment company based in New York. He is also a principal of Canopy Development, a Massachusetts-based developer of resort properties domestically and in the Caribbean. He is also a co-founder and principal of UrbAnalysis, a real estate research firm. Mr. Longua has more than 35 years of experience in commercial real estate, having held senior positions in the real estate units of Chemical Bank, Irving Trust Co., Bankers Trust Co., and the Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corp. He was a director of Acadia Realty Trust.