Coordination Czar for $21 Billion of Work Is Perfect For The Job
For Charles Maikish, recently drafted by New York State to coordinate $21 billion worth of public and private investment in less than a square mile of densely packed lower Manhattan, its almost déja vu all over again. Maikish, as director of the World Trade Center during the Feb. 26, 1993 terrorist attack, led that fix.
But he is even more connected to the WTC than that. In 1968, Maikish started as a field engineer on the slurry wall. And from 1975-85, he worked as a port authority lawyer. One of his jobs was to defend construction claims against the original project.