FISHER BROTHERS ANNOUNCES PRIVATELY-FUNDED DESIGN COMPETITION TO REINVENT AND ENLIVEN ’S CENTERLINE MALLS

Fisher Brothers Asks Creative Communities to Treat Park Avenue’s Medians as a Blank Canvas for Ideas

Fisher Brothers to Award $30,000 to Winning Design Teams

New York, NY (November 7, 2017) –– Fisher Brothers today announced the launch of a privately-funded design competition created to solicit bold ideas to re-envision and enliven the traditional traffic medians of the Park Avenue commercial district between 46th and 57th Streets.

While Park Avenue remains one of the world’s iconic commercial boulevards, identifiable in part by its centerline plantings and periodic sculpture installations, Fisher Brothers believes more can be done to enliven and activate these spaces for a new generation. As an open call for ideas, Fisher Brothers is inviting participants to think “beyond the centerline” and stretch the limits of their creativity.

“Our goal with this competition is to inspire others to come up with their most ambitious and creative visions possible to bring these underutilized islands of green into the 21st Century. We view it as a way to demonstrate to the City the possibilities of what these medians can become,” said Fisher Brothers Partner Winston Fisher.

He added, “We are calling on the most innovative minds to give us their biggest and boldest vision for crafting the world’s newest and most dynamic urban oasis, unconstrained by zoning codes, cost, weight limits or other restrictions. We want them to treat these centerlines as a blank canvas for reimagining Park Avenue, which will get people excited about a potential change.”

Each submission to the competition will be reviewed by an esteemed jury panel of experts: · Vishaan Chakrabarti, Founder, PAU and Professor, Columbia University · Winston Fisher, Partner, Fisher Brothers · Jon Kessler, Artist and Professor, Columbia University’s School of the Arts · Signe Nielsen, Principal, Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects · David Rockwell, Founder and President, Rockwell Group · Samantha Rudin, Senior Vice President, Rudin Management · Michael Speaks, PH.D., Dean of The School of Architecture and Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University

Fisher Brothers is sponsoring the contest and funding the prizes to be awarded. The jury will select a $25,000 grand prize winner and a popular vote will determine a $5,000 prize winner.

Up to 10 of the top designs selected by the jury will be displayed in an exhibit in the public arcade of Fisher Brothers’ Park Avenue Plaza tower at , starting in February 2018.

For more information about the competition rules, submission criteria and deadlines, please visit www.FBDesignCom.com.

About Fisher Brothers For more than a century, Fisher Brothers has epitomized excellence in commercial and residential real estate development, ownership and management. Fisher Brothers built and continues to own and operate a sterling commercial real estate portfolio encompassing seven million square feet of Class A office space located in such iconic towers as Park Avenue Plaza, , 1345 Avenue of the Americas and 605 in , as well as Station Place, which is Washington, DC’s largest private office complex. Fisher Brothers also has returned to its roots as a residential builder with nearly 1.5 million square feet in recent and ongoing development. In early 2015, Fisher Brothers celebrated the completion of Station House, a luxury rental development in Washington’s historic Capitol Hill District. In Manhattan, Fisher Brothers has recently completed development of House39, an amenity-rich rental building at 225 East 39th Street and is developing 111 Murray, an ultra-luxury, high-rise condominium tower in Tribeca.