There are entrenched interests, well-intentioned people and industries that really want to get the people back and get their industries reopen and they're working hard and they have financial resources and they have talented people and they have have talented people and they have fans and they have a lot of tourists

like waiting at the gates to come in and participate and be here and I think

not enough has changed for that course of daily life in New York City to be that

disrupted.

Welcome to post Corona where we try to understand COVID-19's lasting impact on the economy, culture,

and geopolitics.

I'm Dan Sinor. Many have been surprised that areas of the real estate market are booming post-corona.

So what do we know about the pandemic's impact on an exodus

from some cities and the growth of other cities? Cities that investors in the

business press may not have been paying attention to until the snow globe was

shaken up this past year and we now begin to see where everyone is landing.

One of the ways that I have learned on this limited series podcast, Post is from our top flight guests, but also

from our listeners. A business practitioner, say an operator or an investor, will hear one of our

experts on the pod and say, no, no, no, your guest has it all

wrong and then that listener will get a hold of me. It's like I get to crowdsource ideas

from our listeners. Well, today're bringing onto the show one of those

subscribers. Jonathan Pollack is a senior managing director at the Blackstone

group and Blackstone's head of the Real Estate Debt Strategies Group.

Blackstone is one of the largest owners of real estate in the world.

John, who's based in New York, manages a large team, overseeing Blackstone's real estate debt investment strategy.

He's also a member of the firm's Real Estate Investment Committee and serves on the board

of Blackstone Mortgage Trust.

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