Real Estate; Land Use, Zoning, and Development

Melanie Meyers, a real estate partner, focuses on real estate development, with an emphasis on land use, zoning and structuring complex projects, environmental review, public approvals, and private/public partnerships. Her clients include The Georgetown Company, Related Companies, Forest City Ratner Companies, Columbia University, Jamestown Properties, Hospital for Special Surgery, Park Tower Group, Verizon Communications, Rudin Management Company, Inc., Cornell University and Alchemy Properties.

Ms. Meyers joined the Firm in 2003 as a partner. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Meyers served as general counsel to the New York City Department of City Planning. From 1994 to 1997, she was an adjunct professor in the Real Estate Development Program at Columbia University. From 1993 to 1994 Ms. Meyers was an associate professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and an assistant professor from 1990 to 1993.

Ms. Meyers received her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and editor and board member of Law Review and her BS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.