Jed Walentas

The Son Rises Over The East River

Jed Walentas, 33-year-old heir to father David’s real estate empire, is leading the family back to Manhattan, after 20 years in Brooklyn, with the West Side mega-project Clinton Park.
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Jed Walentas, 33-year-old heir to father David’s real estate empire, is leading the family back to Manhattan, after 20 years in Brooklyn, with the West Side mega-project Clinton Park.

Location: How long have you been working with your father, David?

Mr. Walentas: Since ’97.

And before that you were with Donald Trump?

For a year.  read more »

The Redefined Rental Starts Here: New Rendering of Walentases' Clinton Park


Check out this eye-popping new rendering of the Walentas family's $600 million Clinton Park development planned for Manhattan's far West Side, on 11th Avenue, between 53rd and 54th streets.

The Walentas family released this new rendering of the mixed-use development, complete with this sinuous spine of gardened terraces, a car dealership on the ground floor, and about 900 rental apartments on top.  read more »

Brooklyn Blaze? "Not A Big Deal"

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A fire broke at 110 Livingston today (original news here, Curbed link here), so we called Jed Walentas, the building's developer.

"Not a big deal," he promised. "The electrician's shanty caught fire." So maybe the building's dark history with the Board of Ed will still be its biggest problem.

- Max Abelson