Mary Ann Tighe | TRD Studios

On the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, CBRE tri-state CEO Mary Ann Tighe had a chance encounter with landlord and developer Larry Silverstein. "I ran into him -- he was about to go into a place to have dinner, and I ran into him on the street on the Upper East Side," Tighe told The Real Deal's Hiten Samtani during an wide-ranging video interview. "We were standing in front of each other and I began to cry. And he put his arms around me and said, 'Sweetheart, gonna rebuild.' This is 6 o'clock on the night of 9/11. I like to think that so much of my positive response to it has been as a consequence of that moment." Since the terrorist attack, Lower Manhattan has marked its resurgence with the opening of several high-profile projects, including One World Trade Center, the Oculus and most recently, Three World Trade Center. Here, Tighe discusses rebuilding Lower Manhattan after 9/11, whether real estate needs a #MeToo reckoning, if commercial brokerages need to go public in order to survive and more. - Subscribe to The Real Deal here: http://bit.ly/2meXbw1 Check out The Real Deal for more: https://therealdeal.com/ Follow The Real Deal here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealdealmagazine/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/trdny Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trdny/ More videos from The Real Deal: https://therealdeal.com/category/trd-video/