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He is the oldest of three children born to Vicki Miller Bronfman, a homemaker, and Alan Bronfman, a businessman. Growing up, Bronfman was deeply immersed in Kansas City’s active Jewish community, where his family attended Congregation B'nai Jehudah. During his high school years, he played tennis competitively, participated on the debate team, and served as president of his local B’nai B'rith Youth Organization chapter. He went on to earn his undergraduate degree from Tufts University before receiving his Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University School of Law. While completing a judicial clerkship in California, Bronfman met his future wife, Ronit Walker, an Atlanta native and Harvard Law graduate whose father survived the Holocaust. The couple settled in Atlanta in 1994, where they married and raised three children.\u003cbr\u003eBronfman initially practiced law at a local firm. In 1998, he joined Jamestown, a prominent real estate investment and management company. He was appointed Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer in 2002 and promoted to Chief Executive Officer in 2012. Bronfman has directed the acquisition and redevelopment of premier properties globally, while focusing locally on fostering community through mixed-use destinations like Ponce City Market. Alongside his executive career, Bronfman maintains a strong commitment to civic and communal leadership in Atlanta. He has served on the boards of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, and the Piedmont Park Conservancy. His past civic contributions also include board service for the Jewish Funders Network, the Metro Atlanta Chamber, and both the Epstein and Weber schools.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMatt Bronfman was interviewed by Joel Arogeti on February 9, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMatt Bronfman was born in November 1965 in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the oldest of three children born to Vicki Miller Bronfman, a homemaker, and Alan Bronfman, a businessman. Growing up, Bronfman was deeply immersed in Kansas City\u0026rsquo;s active Jewish community, where his family attended Congregation B'nai Jehudah. During his high school years, he played tennis competitively, participated on the debate team, and served as president of his local B\u0026rsquo;nai B'rith Youth Organization chapter. He went on to earn his undergraduate degree from Tufts University before receiving his Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University School of Law. While completing a judicial clerkship in California, Bronfman met his future wife, Ronit Walker, an Atlanta native and Harvard Law graduate whose father survived the Holocaust. The couple settled in Atlanta in 1994, where they married and raised three children.\u003cbr /\u003eBronfman initially practiced law at a local firm. In 1998, he joined Jamestown, a prominent real estate investment and management company. He was appointed Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer in 2002 and promoted to Chief Executive Officer in 2012. Bronfman has directed the acquisition and redevelopment of premier properties globally, while focusing locally on fostering community through mixed-use destinations like Ponce City Market. Alongside his executive career, Bronfman maintains a strong commitment to civic and communal leadership in Atlanta. He has served on the boards of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, and the Piedmont Park Conservancy. His past civic contributions also include board service for the Jewish Funders Network, the Metro Atlanta Chamber, and both the Epstein and Weber schools.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/309/482/small/Bronfman_Matt.mp4_1779998076.jpg?1779998081","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Bronfman__Matt.mp4"]},"duration":5426.98778,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/309/482/small/Bronfman_Matt.mp4_1779998076.jpg?1779998081","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/309/482/original/Bronfman__Matt.mp4?1779998062","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":5426.98778,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Bronfman, Matt [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: My name is Joel Arogeti, and I am a volunteer at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum here in Atlanta, Georgia. It is February 9, 2026. As part of the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project, I have the distinct pleasure of interviewing Matt Bronfman today. Matt, good morning.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=0.0,19.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Good morning. Thank you for doing this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=19.0,20.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Well, thank you for participating and thank you being part of our community. Today's interview will be housed in the Breman Museum. Subject to folks reading this for generations to come. We want to get started right away, so Matt, tell us a little bit about yourself, sort of where were you born, a little about your parents, and then we will talk a little bit about grandparents, great-grandparents, and then we will come forward.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=20.0,50.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Great. I was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Both my parents are from the state of Kansas and, in fact, most of my grandparents were born in the state in Kansas. So, a long history there. My parents were active in the Jewish community. My mom is still alive. She lives in Boca Raton, Florida. My dad passed away a couple years ago. They did the retirement down there many years ago, but I've been here since about 1994.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=50.0,81.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Well, tell us your parents' names.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=81.0,83.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: My parents are Alan and Vicki Bronfman. My dad was a businessperson who had an ice maker business, selling ice makers to restaurants, bars in the Kansas City area, and that was primarily what he did. And my grandfather, his father had been an ice maker repair person in Kansas City.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=83.0,108.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And what was your grandfather's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=108.0,110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Samuel Bronfman.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=110.0,111.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: All right. Was Samuel the first of the Bronfmans in your family to come to the United States? Or were there relatives before Samuel that ended up in the United States?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=111.0,121.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: He was the first. They're part of that generation that ended up in sort of disparate places. You know, there's that book ... What is the book? \"Our Crowd,\" I think it is, and how there was a wave in the early 20th century to get the Eastern European Jews out of New York, that there were too many. And so, they ended up being dispersed, not in a bad way, but to different places where they could find work and there was less concentration of Eastern European Jews in the New York metropolitan area. So, the grandfather on my dad's side ended up in Kansas City area and as far as ... There are still a fair number of Bronfmans and Penners in the Kansas City area, which is my dad's side. My mom's father came over from Eastern Europe as well—more specifically, Ukraine area—and he ended up out in Manhattan, Kansas.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=121.0,190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: That is a university town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=190.0,192.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: A university town. He ended up there and ended up in the car business repairing cars and ultimately having a small car dealership in Manhattan, Kansas. So, that's where my mom was born, who to this day, will meet people in Boca Raton, Florida and you know, that part of Florida is almost like a suburb of New York [City, New York]. And people will say, \"Where are you from?\" And she'll say, \"Manhattan.\" And they'll say, \"You don't sound like you're from Manhattan.\" And she will say very naively, \"Well, Manhattan, Kansas.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=192.0,223.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: That is a great story. I love it. Tell me your mother's maiden name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=223.0,226.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: My mom's maiden is Miller.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=226.0,227.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Miller?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=227.0,228.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=228.0,228.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And her first name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=228.0,229.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Vicki.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=229.0,230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Vicki Miller. All right. So, you have shared with us a little bit about your grandfathers. Tell us a little about your grandmothers and, if you know, how did your grandparents meet on both sides of the family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=230.0,245.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: My grandmother, whose last name was Rose, met my grandfather with the last name Miller, and I don't exactly know the story. I've heard different things, but it was, I think, in the Kansas City area, and he moved her out to Manhattan because that's where he had opportunity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=245.0,268.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And then on your father's side of the family, the Bronfman side, what was your grandmother's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=268.0,274.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Her last name was Penner, and her family was from Kansas City as well. They met and my dad ... I have many more recollections of her. She lived till I was probably 13, 14 years old. He died when I was much younger, though I do remember him. My dad always said everything he had in life was because of his mother. He was very close to his mother. She was the one ... My dad took early on a lot of responsibility for taking care of his family. His dad was an ice maker repair person who had some health issues. When my dad wanted to do something other than repair ice makers and become a businessperson, it was really his mom, Frances Penner, who advised him. My dad, till the day he passed away, roughly five years ago, always said, \"Everything I have, I owe to my mother.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=274.0,328.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Interesting. Tell us about your father. We will talk about your father. Then, we will shift over to your mother about their siblings, your aunts and uncles. Was your father an only child or did he have brothers and sisters?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=328.0,339.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: No, both had big families, and my dad had siblings where he had a lot of responsibility. He had ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=339.0,348.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Where was he in the birth order, if you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=348.0,352.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: He was the oldest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=352.0,352.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And can you name the names of the siblings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=352.0,354.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: He was the oldest, Alan. He had siblings. The next oldest would be my aunt, Anne Lynn, who died just about six, seven years ago, I think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=354.0,366.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And what was her married name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=366.0,368.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Mandelbaum, and then he had two younger brothers, Larry and Sanford, who were both mentally disabled. Then, he has a youngest sister, Ricky, who had a lot of problems. [I am] unclear exactly what caused them. He always said it was drug related, that she was in Mensa when she went to college, but this was in the 1960s and got into a lot of drugs and kind of spun out of control. So, from the time my dad was young he had a lot of responsibility. He had a dad who was partially disabled. He had siblings with a lot of challenges. So, early on, my dad is really a role model and mentor to me in terms of he really took on a lot of responsibility for caring for his family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=368.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: That is a very powerful story. Tell us a little bit about your mother's siblings and their side of the family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=420.0,428.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: My mom's side of the family is very different than that. My mom was the youngest of six. She was something of almost an afterthought, we joke, because she was so much younger than her siblings. My two oldest uncles came back from the war, from World War II, and my mom had been born. And they were surprised, because they were at an age where they served in World War II. I think my uncle Earl, who was the oldest, was roughly 18 or 19 years older than my mom. So, all her siblings are much older and all but one sister have now passed away. My mom is ... I'm 60. My mom is 83.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=428.0,482.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Wow, so you have a young mom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=482.0,484.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I have a young mom, [yes].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=484.0,487.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: That is great. Did you grow up in Kansas surrounded by a lot of your cousins?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=487.0,493.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: A lot of family, a lot of community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=493.0,496.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Tell us ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=496.0,496.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Both my parents ... Again, not only did I have a lot of cousins, nieces, nephews, there was just a lot. My mom was one of six. My dad was one of five, though his family had a lot challenges. But there was just a lot of family in the area, and it was a great way to grow up. I had a real community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=496.0,513.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And when were you born? What year?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=513.0,515.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: The end of 1965, November 1965.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=515.0,518.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Where are you in the birth order?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=518.0,520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I'm the oldest.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=520.0,521.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Tell me about your siblings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=521.0,522.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Oh, my siblings both live here. They're both wonderful. I've got a sister, Shana, who was a teacher and has a daughter who's away at college now, and she married into a local family here. Both my siblings moved here after I did. She married into a local family called the Sinkoes, and you may know them, because [they are] part of the Sephardic community here. And then my brother moved here. He is a psychotherapist out in the Johns Creek area [north of Atlanta].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=522.0,557.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And tell me his name.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=557.0,559.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Darrin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=559.0,559.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Darrin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=559.0,559.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: My sister is Shana Sinkoe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=559.0,562.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: All right, fantastic. So, let us go back a little bit and start talking about some of your earliest memories growing up in Kansas City, either going to school, or going to synagogue, or being around family. Tell us a little about some of your earlier memories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=562.0,580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: You know, I think two things that are very near and dear to me arose when I was a kid. One is religion. We were active at Temple B'nai Jehudah in Kansas City, which would be close to the Temple here, in terms of it was the large Reform congregation. And my family used to, my bubbeh [Yiddish: grandmother], my mom's mom, lived with us until she passed away when I about 11 years old, I want to say. So, she lived with me my entire ... from the time I was born. She always thought I was going to be a rabbi because I used to always ask her to take me to Friday night services. So, attending the Temple, seeing my parents active at that, my dad was on the board, And so, that was always very important to me. But the other thing I had a real sense of ... You know, there's the Judaism theme, but the other was community. I had a lot of family. That was important to me, And so, I was very fortunate. But I also grew up a huge sports fan, and we used to go to Kansas City Chiefs games. Some of my earliest memories are of freezing at Arrowhead Stadium when I was like seven years old. To me, part of what's so wonderful about being a sports fan is it gives you community. You have a community, you know. We'll talk probably more about this, but in this world, there's very few things that bond people together increasingly. And being a Chiefs fan, and the more I traveled in particular, you have this bond with anybody. [Strangers say,] \"Oh, you're from Kansas City. Oh, do you like the Chiefs?\" And so, having this bond with people is I think super important in this world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=580.0,687.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Tell us a little bit about what it was like growing up in the 1960s and 1970s in Kansas and being Jewish in, I would imagine, a predominantly non-Jewish community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=687.0,698.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Very non-Jewish community. There may be—this is just a guess—10,000 Jews in Kansas City when I was growing up. So, you know, I went to public school [Kindergarten] through [grade] 12, and I was one of a graduating class of 500 people at my high school, and I don't think our class was more than five percent or so Jewish. And it never really was that—this is gonna sound maybe odd—it was never that big a deal to me. I mean, I was conscious of being Jewish, I went to synagogue, I was active in BBYO [B'nai B'rith Youth Organization], but being Jewish ... It was important to me, but I never ... I have to say I never really felt discrimination for the most part. Maybe that was naivete, but I've never really felt that it was a big issue to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=698.0,755.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: For example, were there ever tests on the High Holy Days that you missed or anything like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=755.0,763.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I don't remember it ever being an issue. You know, if you were talking to my parents or others, they might tell you otherwise, but I never felt it as an issue. I always felt accommodated as somebody who did not go to school on the High Holy Days and things like that. I never really saw it as an issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=763.0,779.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: You mentioned youth groups when you were growing up, Jewish youth groups. What were you involved in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=779.0,787.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I was involved in BBYO. I was the president of my local BBYO chapter when I was in high school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=787.0,794.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And that was the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=794.0,796.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes, and it was a big part of my life. I had a lot of Jewish friends, but I also had a lot of non-Jewish friends going to a high school where I was ... You know, there weren't that many Jewish kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=796.0,809.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Talk a little bit about sort of some of the mentors that you had growing up, both in the Jewish world and non-Jewish world, whether it was family members, teachers, youth advisors. I am just trying to get an idea of what ... You talked about your father was very influential and his mother helping shape him as a person. I am trying to understand a little more about kind of what helped shape you as a person. 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We were super close.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=837.0,845.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Tell me a little bit about him and some of the things that influenced you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=845.0,850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: He was ... You know, I could almost get emotional talking about my dad. Rarely does a day go by where I don't think about my dad to this day and trying to ... You know, it's funny. I could I could get emotional pretty quickly. I feel like I'm incredibly fortunate in life and probably it starts with having great parents and a dad who was always patient with me, who always gave me time to talk to him, who took me to play tennis, who took me to tennis tournaments, who took me to Chiefs games, who valued my opinion and was incredibly important in my life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=850.0,890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Fantastic. Did you have an opportunity to ever work with him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=890.0,895.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes, he would occasionally take me to work. Then, even after he sold the business, he had little investments here and there, some real estate, things like that. He and I worked closely on that, more or less from the time I was in college till the day he passed away. Some of my time is still spent kind of managing his investments and that sort of thing on behalf of my mom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=895.0,919.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: All right. So, you go through elementary school, high school, B'nai B'rith. Who were some of your peers, you know, your closest friends when you were in high school? We always like to name names and talk about people because, again, this is an oral history project, and we like to learn a little bit about you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=919.0,939.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Oh, my closest friend was a Jewish guy by the name of Hugh Schoolman, who now—funny and really random—he runs the American school [Yangon International School] in Miramar.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=939.0,953.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Miramar, Florida, or Cuba?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=953.0,956.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: No, Myanmar. He runs the American school in [Yangon] Myanmar.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=956.0,961.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: In Southeast Asia?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=961.0,962.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes, which is really, if you know anything about Myanmar, it's a really crazy place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=962.0,970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: The reason I said that, because there is a Miramar, Florida and a Miramar, Cuba.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=970.0,973.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Right. I got it totally wrong. Myanmar.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=973.0,975.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Myanmar, which is in Southeast Asia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=975.0,978.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: He's enjoyed being a principal of American schools in sort of peculiar places around the globe. Some way or another this opportunity arose about four or five years ago. It kind of scares us, scares me that he's in probably one of the least friendly places in the world. Like, you'll send him an email knowing it may ... We email most around sports, like Kansas Jayhawks basketball, Kansas City Chiefs football, And so, I'll send him an email, and I know he may not get it right away because all communication through Myanmar is scanned by the government and, you know, they turn off the internet at times.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=978.0,1021.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Wow, that is very powerful. Was this a childhood friend from elementary school or high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1021.0,1026.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: From ... We were close friends from the time we were about five years old. I also belonged to a Jewish country club in Kansas City called Oakwood, which would be akin to the Standard Club here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1026.0,1037.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: You mentioned your father taking you to tennis. You have not talked at all about [that. You mentioned] some sports as a fan, the football, but did you play?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1037.0,1047.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I played competitive tennis growing up. I played in a lot of tennis tournaments. I was a ranked tennis player. 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It was the large Reform congregation in Kansas City?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1054.0,1064.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: It had great rabbis, education directors ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1064.0,1069.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Who were some of the ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1069.0,1069.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: A rabbi named Michael Zedek, who is still ... He just wrote a book about Jewish life. He went on to do other things after leaving the Temple, but was, is a great leader. So, I was very much influenced by him and Rabbi [Mark] Levin at the Temple. They were some. And they're both some semi-, if not fully, retired now, but they were great spiritual leaders. I was very fortunate to grow up in that sort of world.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1069.0,1101.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And so, after high school, you matriculated to college. Where did you go to school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1101.0,1105.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I went to Tufts University [in Medford, Massachusetts] outside of Boston. That was very much an influence of my parents. They felt Kansas City was a great place to grow up, but my parents really ... So many people say, \"Oh, you should go to school locally. Kansas University is a great school,\" but they were really encouraging of trying something different. And so, I went to Tuft's University. It was somewhat of a thought I might play tennis there. I ended up not playing tennis there. I was sort of ... I quickly determined I was kind of done with tennis around the time I got to college. Not in ... Just it wasn't what I wanted to focus my time on. If you're gonna even play D3 [Division III] sports, you need to make it a big part of your time. But it was a great experience to do something different. Tufts was a small liberal arts school. I got a great education. I met lifelong friends and I had a really great experience. I very much enjoyed it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1105.0,1163.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: What years were you at Tufts?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1163.0,1165.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Eighty-four to 1988. And I had a couple of real mentors there [including] a woman named Robyn Gittleman, who was a dean at the school. She and I developed a close friendship, and she was a close advisor of mine for a long time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1165.0,1184.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Any other friends or organizations that you were active in while you were in college?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1184.0,1191.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I've always ... You know, again, I am somebody who seeks out community and being engaged. So, not any one thing in particular, but I was always ... I wasn't in a fraternity, but I was very active in various student organizations, going to lectures. They had ... I was a history major in college. Tuft's has a leading international school called the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Every chance I could, I took lectures there. I participated in things there, so I was ... Robyn Gittleman ran something called the Experimental College, which was kind of a 1960s almost type of thing about having alternative classes that didn't fit into traditional departments. I was super active there in terms of bringing different lectures to campus, having alternative classes, and you know, that forged a big part of my identity in college.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1191.0,1255.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: So, after college, are there any ... Well, let us, before we leave Tufts University, are there ... your network or your peer group [while] you were there? Who were some of those people that you were friendly with or influenced by?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1255.0,1269.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: One of my best ... I'm still in touch with a group of guys, James Goldman, Bill Stone, Dave Stone, Jonathan Pearl, a lot of good friends from there. You know, it's funny. I very much crave community, but I've determined, and maybe this is sort of my entrepreneurial streak, I'm very good at sending emails on birthdays, connecting with friends in the past, but I tend to very much be in the moment. My wife would say I probably don't invest as much time as I should in some of my older relationships, but maybe part of my whole thing is I'm constantly like, \"Where am I now? What am I doing tomorrow?\" I'm not a big rear view mirror guy and that's good and bad. It's more just an acknowledgement of who I am. So, I will almost never forget an old friend on their birthday. [I will ask,] like, \"What are you up to?\" And if I happen to be in New York or somewhere and they're around, sometimes I'll reach out and say, \"Hey, I'm free this afternoon,\" that sort of thing, \"Do you have a few minutes to connect?\" But I'm probably not as good as I should be. My wife is much better at like getting together for a weekend with college roommates or long talks on the phone and things like that. I don't. I don't do as much of that. Another big difference between my wife and I about old friends and friendships in general, my wife, and I realized one of the big differences in our lives is she would always describe her friends as nice. I would always describe my friends as interesting. It speaks a lot to what you value in people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1269.0,1377.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Sure, we are going to talk about your wife in a few minutes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1377.0,1379.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I'm sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1379.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: No, these are wonderful stories and we could go much deeper in all of them, but I wanted to talk a little bit about ... So, you are in college, you are taking some experimental type classes, you are a history major, and you know, it is the mid-1980s, Ronald Reagan is our president, there's some change going on in the world, and the Berlin Wall is falling down and those kinds of things. What were you thinking about as far as your career? Your father had been in business, self-employed, your mother was a homemaker, I assume, and you were basically a third generation American. Your grandfather came over from the old countries, and what are you gonna do with the rest of your life, as the expression goes, when you were in college? What were your thoughts about what to do either professionally or academically?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1380.0,1439.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I very early on, for better and worse, always thought I would go to law school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1439.0,1446.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And tell me a little bit about that genesis, that seed. How did that develop?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1446.0,1451.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: It's funny because I'm one of ... My parents always encouraged .... And partially, I was ... The other thing I didn't say [about] my biggest activity in high school [was that] I was a very competitive debater. I went to state and national tournaments for debate. I loved debate tournaments. I loved public speaking. I still do, for better and worse. Maybe when you love debate, you love law, you're a political junkie from the time you're 16 years old, you sorta ... What are you gonna do? You're gonna be a lawyer. So, I probably almost never considered doing anything else but being a lawyer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1451.0,1495.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: You know, I have to ask the question because I did not debate in high school, but I debated in college and I always wondered what was that genesis, what was the germ or seed that helped create that? Your high school obviously had a debate team. Did a friend participate in it and got you involved in it? Did a teacher reach out?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1495.0,1514.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: A teacher encouraged it. I had, like in eighth grade, done like an acting class and a teacher said, \"You're very comfortable on your feet.\" A teacher named Miss Light [said], \"You should think about debate because you seem to love politics. You like speaking. Why don't you try out for the debate team?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1514.0,1535.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Let us talk just a little bit about it, because I am fascinated by that, and I think that ... So, you are in middle school, in eighth grade, you are getting ready to go to high school, and did you join the debate team or try out for the debate team?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1535.0,1549.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I tried it out almost immediately.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1549.0,1551.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: What was the name of your high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1551.0,1553.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Shawnee Mission East High School. I tried out for the debate team, and that was really my passion in high school. I think I enjoyed it more than I liked tennis. I loved being on the debate team. I loved focusing on the issues. I just thought it was really fun. It became a community, which is one of my themes in life, you know, hanging out between classes, after school, in the debate room, practicing, debating things. That became a big part of my community in high school was the debate team.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1553.0,1586.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Just a random question, but do you remember any of the national debate topics you had?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1586.0,1592.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes, one my junior year. It was the United States reducing arms sales to different [countries]. Should the United States reduce its arms sales? Because that was around the time the U.S. was big doing a lot of arms sales, not just of course, to Israel, but to Europe, to Saudi Arabia, and things like that. Then, my senior year it was about changes to criminal procedure. So, I do remember it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1592.0,1624.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Good for you. We digress, but I think it is ... For folks that were debaters, some of those memories will last you a lifetime.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1624.0,1634.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1634.0,1634.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: All right. So, now you are in college, you are taking classes, thinking about law school. Did you apply directly to law school ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1634.0,1645.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1645.0,1646.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: ... from college or did you work in between?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1646.0,1647.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I did not take any time off. I went right to law school. I went to Northwestern [University] Law School [in Chicago, Illinois] for a few different reasons. One, I was accepted. Two, I was really thinking about inching my way back to the Midwest. I really thought, more likely than not, I would end up in the Midwest. Just as Atlanta is, probably I would say, to a lot of other cities in the United States, it's ... If you grow up in Birmingham [Alabama] or wherever, you sort of migrate to Atlanta. Growing up in Kansas City, Chicago [Illinois] is the big city, so the opportunity to go to Northwestern ... One, it's a beautiful city. I, to this day, have a real love affair with Chicago. It's one of the places I first got interested in what I would call the built environment, about the impact of architecture, which is a big part of what I do to this day, was because I lived in a city, Chicago, that I think has some of the best architecture and walking in the country. But Chicago was the hub of the Midwest. I was accepted at Northwestern Law School. My parents were happy to pay for it, so I matriculated at Northwestern Law School.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1647.0,1720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: So, you were there from 1988 to ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1720.0,1722.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Ninety-one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1722.0,1723.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Ninety-one. Fantastic. Tell us a little bit about your experiences at Northwestern. I always like to say that, for some people, that first year of law school is academic boot camp, academic Parris Island ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1723.0,1736.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: It is.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1736.0,1737.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: ... like the Marines ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1737.0,1737.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1737.0,1738.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: ... a very intense experience.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1738.0,1738.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Very intense. Not as much fun as I thought it was probably going to be. I guess I thought law school—and this was a naivete—would almost be more a continuation of being an undergraduate history major with a minor in philosophy, and it's really not. Law school is much more intensive. Yes, there's debating big ideas, but it's very much ... It's so much more intensive. And you know, one of my themes is I've been incredibly fortunate. I've had a lot of good luck from ... starting with my parents, you know, and my family, but one of my ... I'm jumping maybe a little bit ahead, but I had a great three years in law school, and I was able to line up really good clerkships after law school. And the great thing that came out of being a law clerk for me was I entered law school and went through law school thinking I wanted to litigate. Again, I was a debater, and I took a lot of writing and speaking classes in law school. Clerkships taught me that I wanted nothing to do with the courtroom and so, that was a really ... That was [what] led to me getting into real estate and business, which for me was the right thing to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1738.0,1826.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Were your clerkships with judges or litigating attorneys?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1826.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: They were with judges. I clerked first for a federal district judge in California, and then I clerked for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Louisville, Kentucky.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1830.0,1844.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Fantastic. Well, in law school, talk about your peers, people that were influential on you, or your professors, anybody in particular [that] was influential on you, either from a social life or from an academic life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1844.0,1859.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: It's funny. I had great professors. One in particular stood out named Marty Reddish, who is still teaching, and a number of great professors and friends. You know, law school is an intensive environment, and, in some ways, it helps you make friends because it's a bit of a pressure cooker. As I said, I'm not great about seeing my old friends. I am great at checking in with them on birthdays, events, joking about an article in the paper. I have a number of close friends from law school: Steve Bernstein, David Skidmore, Mitch Moser, Paul Bach. They're all over the place from Milwaukee [Wisconsin] to Cincinnati [Ohio], to [Washington] D.C. and a really cool group of friends, who I really like a lot. Rarely does more than a few months go by without me texting one of them about something in sports because, like one of them lives for Miami football, so I'll text him in anticipation of the championship game, or something in politics, or on a birthday. I'm pretty good at quick check-ins with people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1859.0,1929.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: All right. I know from other conversations that clerkships were very important to you because it led to a very important introduction in your life. So, let us talk a little bit about that. Part of your responsibility being a law clerk was to ... Let us go ahead and name the judges you worked for.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1929.0,1953.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Federal District Judge Gary Taylor and Federal Court of Appeals Judge on the Sixth Circuit Danny Boggs. They were two very good clerkships that I lined up. I had the first one with Judge Taylor in California, which ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1953.0,1972.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: What city in California?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1972.0,1974.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I was based in Santa Ana, California, which is in Orange County, and he was a relatively new judge. It was kind of a roundabout story, like not that many people have back-to-back clerkships and mine was a bit of an accident. I had a clerkship lined up for the one year after law school. And halfway through my third or close to the end of my third year of law school, the judge for whom I was supposed to clerk resigned. For a host of reasons, he just decided to resign, wasn't for him anymore, but so, there I am in my third-year law school like, what am I going to do? I want to do a clerkship because I might want to teach someday. I had ... Again, I was a history and philosophy major. Teaching had a lot of appeal to me. So, I'm like, well, if I'm gonna teach, be a law professor, I need to line up a clerkship. So, I started applying for clerkships. The clerkships were already taken for the next year and so, I started to apply for clerkships the following year. And I lined up one with this judge, Danny Boggs on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, who's a super interesting character, still active, a real mentor, was one of the youngest federal judges ever appointed. He was a University of Chicago economist by background, really interesting smart guy, very different views than mine, but super interesting thinker. So, I was very excited about that, thinking that could lead to something in academia if I wanted to go that path. And then, by chance, there was a new judge appointed out in California and I'm like, well, I've got nothing to do next year. I'm probably going to go to a law firm in Chicago, which would have been fine. But there was this new judge appointed. I heard he was looking through sort of some law professor or something. He might be looking to hire a clerk starting in a couple months. So, I'm, like, I don't really want to go a law firm for one year and then take this other clerkship, so I'll apply. I ended up accepting a job working for him, which turned out to be life altering, because that's how I met my wife.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=1974.0,2117.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: I cannot let this opportunity or discussion go without you telling us the story about how you met your wife.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2117.0,2124.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: She was ... Again, he was behind the ... My wife's name is Ronit Walker. This judge, Gary Taylor, was behind the eight ball, so to speak, in terms of coming up with a staff, clerks, things like that. He had just been appointed. So, I was hired. I started working for him. [He was a] great guy, smart, easy going, just a prince of a person. [He] died a few years ago, but [he was] a truly great man. He said to me, \"I need you to find my next law clerk.\" And so, you know, we sent out applications all over the place and we got in about 100 resumes. I culled through them all, and I picked out three people out of 100 resumes for the judge to interview. They all three came out to California to interview for the job and one of the three people whose resume I chose was my now wife, Ronit Walker. She came in for the interview and that was the one day all year I was out sick. I woke up with like a 103 [degree] fever. I mean, you know, you're twenty-three years old, you tend to go to work, but I was really sick, so I didn't go to work. And she sat there. She sat and waited for the judge in my office, and the then administrative assistant had left some notes for me to return some phone calls, and she knew both. [It was] two phone calls, and she knew both people. It's a really small world story. One of them was my college roommate, James Goldman, who she had sublet an apartment from, and another was somebody we both just happen to know randomly. So, she really wants the job, and she is pursuing getting the job, you know, following up, calling like, \"I'm very interested.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2124.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Where was she at law school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2250.0,2251.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: She was in law school at Harvard [University in Cambridge, Massachusetts] and she was following up, expressing interest in the job, and we got to know each other. I say to this day that she was flirting with me and she was like, \"No, I was simply trying to get a job. You took it as flirting because you're a stupid boy, but I was simply somebody saying, 'I'm very interested in the job,' and you know, you thought I was calling because I enjoyed talking to you.\" And that was the origin story of our relationship. As proof that I was the one really pursuing her, she would call just to express a 30 second ... Meanwhile, my two friends, I had called both of them and they were like, \"Yeah, I know Ronit. She's great. You'd really like her. She's super cute.\" And so, I was, of course, interested in meeting with her because ... And I enjoyed talking to her on the phone. So, then she gets offered the job and she gets cold feet because she's never lived anywhere but the East Coast. She grew up here in Atlanta, grew up in Sandy Springs, then went to Penn [Pennsylvania State University in University Park for her] undergrad, [and then attended] Harvard Law School. She tells me, she gets offered the job and she's like, \"Yeah, I don't know. It's really far. I don't think I'm going to take it.\" And I say, \"You're making a big mistake,\" and I really meant this seriously, \"He's a great judge. He's a great guy. It's good on your resume. I think you really need to take the job.\" She's like, \"I just don't know anything about the area. I was only there for an ... I drove in for the interview. I left. I don't know.\" I said, \"Come back out for a long weekend and you can stay with a friend of mine. You'll be making a mistake if you don't take this job.\" And she says, \"Okay.\" Then, she calls back and says, \"The flights are too expensive. I don't think I can do it.\" And I say, \"Okay.\" Then, I call her back and this is before 9-11 and you don't need ID to get on an airplane the way you do today. I tell her my sister had been booted from a flight and, \"She has a free round-trip ticket. She's in college. She's not gonna be able to use it. Why don't you take her voucher and come out here for free because you're making a mistake not to take the job?\" So, she flies out, she stays with my friend, and we've been together ever since. She takes the job, and I waited about three months or so to tell her that, in actuality, there was no free ticket. I paid for her to come out because I just wanted to meet her. I thought she was so fantastic. I enjoyed talking to her.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2251.0,2413.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: This is before the internet, so ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2413.0,2415.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Before the internet. I had nothing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2415.0,2416.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And before FaceTime on cell phone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2416.0,2419.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2419.0,2419.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: So, you had not seen her or ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2419.0,2420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: This is roughly 1992, 1993 time period.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2420.0,2425.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: So, you heard her voice?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2425.0,2426.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I heard her voice. We had long talks on the phone. My friends had said she was great, and I just decided that I didn't want to not meet her. I was going to go the extra yard to meet her, and so, we've been together ever since. So, the whole relationship [is] kind of based on a lie is really what it boils down to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2426.0,2446.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Motivation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2446.0,2447.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes, and I joke, this was right before Clarence Thomas, so, you know, before the whole Clarence Thomas hearing stuff, and so ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2447.0,2457.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And for posterity, that was a lawyer who was appointed as a judge and had her law clerk, and he was up for Supreme Court, and there was a hearing in Congress.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2457.0,2467.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2467.0,2468.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: I just want to give that some ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2468.0,2468.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: He had been accused of sexually harassing somebody. And you know, it's a joke and my kids hate it when I tell this story, but today you'd be much more circumspect about somebody applying for a job to work with you and just sort of staying on the phone, talking to them, being maybe a little flirty, and then actually paying for them to come out to visit. You would not do that today. You'd think ... In a good way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2468.0,2498.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Times have changed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2498.0,2498.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: The times have changed in a good way. And so, that was the origin story of our now 35-year relationship.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2498.0,2505.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: So, let us fast forward a little bit. You finish your clerkships, and what do you do? Do you go into academics? Do you get a job, what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2505.0,2515.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Again, good fortune. I mean, [I had] great parents, [I] meet my wife through some good fortune. I clerk and I decide, you know what? I don't think litigation and academia are for me. I think a lot of this motions to dismiss, filing 100-page briefs ... This stuff is tedious. It's boring. I don't want to do it. I'm far more interested in the business side of the equation. This was 1993. The business market, the real estate market was starting to pick up after some down times. I probably would have done just about anything on the business side, but I knew I did not want to be a litigator. I did want to be some law professor. I did not want to be filing motions to dismiss, motions for discovery ... The great thing about being a law clerk is I decided this is not for me, and so, my focus ... She came off her clerkship. We decided to ... We were trying to decide where to be. We thought about Kansas City, and we thought about a lot of different places. One of the things my dad said to me repeatedly is, \"Focus on places where there's growth.\" And that's been a key theme in my life. I think one of the things I am at the end of the day is a demographer. That's what a real estate person is. You're thinking about where people want to move, what do they aspire to. A big part of my life is thinking about trends in real estate, and I always joke, \"Make demographics your friend.\" You know, I'm always amazed by people who make money in real estate with shrinking demographics. It's a lot harder. So, what I saw in Atlanta was a couple of things. One, great demographics, growing city. And two, it's where Ronit's parents were. We thought about living a lot of places, but Ronit's parents were here. And the other thing, having lived in places like Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, this notion of not having to shovel ice off my car was really compelling. I mean, I spent most of my life scraping ice off of my windshield. Now, I joke I never dreamed I might have a garage someday, and I might not have to scrape ice off my car. But living, you know, in the places I've been living, I either was walking a lot, or I was scraping ice off of my car, and so, the idea of living someplace warm had a lot of appeal. So, these are the reasons why we decided to move to Atlanta, but Ronit's parents were probably the biggest factor.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2515.0,2686.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And so, it is the early- or mid-1990s now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2686.0,2692.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Mid-1990s, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2692.0,2692.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Mid-1990s. You are in Atlanta. You marry Ronit?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2692.0,2696.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2696.0,2697.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: All right, and you take a job. Where was your first job here in Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2697.0,2701.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: At the firm that was then known as Branch, Pike and Ganz, that became Holland and Knight. I started there in roughly 1994, and we got married shortly thereafter at Callanwolde [Fine Arts Center] off of Briarcliff Road. I started working at the firm and overall, I really enjoyed it. I am not somebody who ran from the [practice of] law. Some people will tell you, \"I practiced law and I ran the hell away from it,\" and I did not. I enjoyed practicing law. I was interested in the business side. I had a dad who is a businessperson. I knew litigation was not interesting to me and so, I always thought I might be interested. I started thinking I might be interested in doing something in business, but it was not a foregone conclusion. I enjoyed Holland and Knight. I was going to hopefully make partner in the next couple of years. I was enjoying it a lot. This was the very beginning of 1998. I was thinking I was working my way towards being a partner. I was working on a deal with one of the firm's clients named Jamestown and they were relatively small at the time. They bought power centers, which is a retail center where there's a Target, or a Walmart, or that sort of thing. And I was working on a deal with the then head of Jamestown, somebody who was a real mentor to me, named [Stephen] Zoukis. Steve's a very funny guy. He starts telling me that he thinks Jamestown's gonna grow and he needs to hire, and he was a lawyer by background, and he probably should hire somebody to be general counsel, but to do things other than law, and he's gonna start looking for that. And I said to him, \"I think I'd be very interested in this job. How would I go about applying?\" And he said, \"I'm glad you asked. All your bosses are friends of mine, so I couldn't ask you. But now that you've basically pushed me for the job, the job is yours.\" And so, he said, \"I wasn't going to be the one to ask you because I didn't want to have to tell your bosses I recruited you, but you know, now that you've basically said you want the job, I really don't feel like I have any other good options. So, yeah, the job is yours.\" And so, that's kind of how I started at Jamestown in the beginning in 1998.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2701.0,2851.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And so, the rest is history. You have been with Jamestown ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2851.0,2856.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Oh, a little over 28 years now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2856.0,2858.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Wow. And for those that do not know, tell us a little bit about Jamestown. What is Jamestown?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2858.0,2863.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Jamestown is a real estate private equity investor that invests in real estate and raises money. Back then, we raised money exclusively from German investors. What I call the dentist and Dusseldorf distribution system. Another important mentor in my life, who I was talking to literally coming over here today, is named Christoph Kahl. Until a few years ago, Christoph was the majority partner in Jamestown. He founded the company in the 1980s with a goal that Germans would be interested in investing in American real estate. The Soviets were literally at the Wall. They were concerned about the Deutsche Mark. There were tax advantages at that time to investing outside Germany. He started the company in the 1980s and a big year for the first many years was, we're gonna buy an Aaron Rents distribution facility for two million, three million dollars and I'm gonna go raise the money for that from the dentist in Dusseldorf distribution system. So, that's kind of the Jamestown's origin story. I joined in 1998 and really had the good fortune again to be able to get involved in a lot of different things. I immediately start working closely with Christoph and Steve. We're a small company but we take a real ... There's a few shifts in Jamestown's history that are worth focusing on. One was we had been very focused on the Sun Belt, but we started taking a position around the time I joined that I was an advocate for that some of the best opportunities were in what we would call gateway markets: New York, San Francisco, D.C., et cetera. People often talk about one of the advantages to Atlanta and Sunbelt markets is you have loose zoning restrictions. It's easy to build. But we were raising money from investors who really wanted reliable returns. One of our theses was that supply constraints are actually an investor's friend. You want to know what's coming in the way of competition. So, you buy an office building, or an apartment building, or retail in New York City on Fifth Avenue. They're not going to build another one. It's very hard to build another retail center in New York City. And so, if you can buy good retail in New York City ... If you buy good retail in Atlanta, one of the concerns is always they'll put another one up across the street. If you buy good real estate in New York City, it's supply constrained because things are built out, zoning is more difficult. Whereas if you're in Atlanta, if you have a good retail center, you always worry that parking lot, that field across the street could be competition. And so, we really took a thesis that New York City was, and these big cities were a more stable investing market. [We] also took a position, going back to demographics, that young people at that point in time were ... I saw it among my friends and others that a lot of people were interested in moving to New York, D.C., San Francisco. New York had had a really down time in the 1980s, as you know. We really took a position in the late 1990s that these cities were coming back. They were getting safer. They were getting cleaner people, you know, they had good leadership and these were gonna be great places to invest in the coming years. So, we basically started shifting soon after I joined Jamestown to a real focus on urban markets. That's sort of the first big shift I would say that I was a big part of at Jamestown, from doing say a Walmart or a power center in Atlanta to buildings. The second shift is I started to really worry about buying commodity real estate. That ... I started to become what I joke to this day is an interesting person, real estate guy. I like interesting people. I like interesting real estate and one of my concerns, even in New York ... I once saw Sam Zell speak. Sam Zell is one of the legends in real estate. I was able to meet and sit with him at an Emory [University] Business School event about five, six years ago, which is an incredible thrilled to me because he was one of my idols in life. I took a real estate law course at Northwestern, and the professor was a friend of his and he came into lecture into my law school course. Then, I saw him speak again soon after,we in the early 2000s. He owned Equity Office and somebody asked him what the biggest problem was in real estate from his perspective. He told a great story. He said, \"I own this great building in Chicago. And I ran into the managing partner of the law firm who was a tenant there. And he said to me, 'Sam, you do a great job. You do a great job managing, leasing the building, but we're moving across the street because we can save 50 cents a square foot.'\" And that story really resonated with me because I appreciate ... I like supply constrained markets, but I started getting then concerned about what can you do to make your building unique? What can you to make people want to come to that building, to that shopping center? And that was a real inflection point to me, going from simply supply constraint to its more than that. It's finding interesting buildings. And that led me to Chelsea Market in New York, which you could argue was one of the first outside the box acquisitions. Chelsea Market was the old Nabisco cookie factory at 15th and 9th Avenues in New York City. And the Chelsea neighborhood was a little unsafe then. But what I saw when I went down there in 2002 was not just people ... I started to see a lot of artists there, a lot of creative types, and art galleries, and things like that. But I started to also see at the same time a lot of people who look more like investment bankers and lawyers who seemed to think it was pretty cool to hang out down there. Around this time, I read a great book by David Brooks, who just announced his retirement. David Brooks wrote a book about this time called \"Bobos in Paradise.\" The theme of \"Bobos in Paradise\" is there's ... Bobos are a mix of bourgeois and bohemians, and they're coming together and they used to be totally separate. And people who were investment bankers, lawyers, private equity people, what I started thinking, and Brooks talks about a related subject, but what I really started thinking is that people didn't want to office in their grandfather or grandmother's office building. They didn't want to shop in their grandfather or grandmother's mall. They wanted something more interesting. The people with wealth wanted to be part of something more interesting. They wanted to be among the artists. They wanted to think they were cooler than that. That led me to really believe that the place I wanted to make the bed in New York City was in that sort of neighborhoods. At that time, we still owned a building, 1211 Avenue of the Americas on Sixth Avenue. [It was a] great building. Well, it was a 1970s sort of bunker with low ceilings, small windows. It's still to this day, the headquarters of Fox News [Corporation]. People would tell me what a great building Fox News Corp building was. And I would sort of nod and be like, \"Yeah, great location,\" you know, 43rd [Street] and 6th [Avenue]. Don't quote me on that. It shows you I'm getting old. It may not be exactly at 43rd and 6th, but right around there. [I would] be like, \"Yeah, a great location,\" this and that. But at the same time, I started thinking to myself, \"Eh, the building has low ceilings. It's not that interesting. It sort of feels like where your grandfather might have gone to work.\" And I use grandfather. I could substitute in grandmother, but you know what I mean. That was an era where it was much more likely to be your grandfather. That led me to start thinking about things like Chelsea. We bought Chelsea Market and it's ... I started to think more about what's ... I think we [or] I was ahead of the time in thinking about it because today it's a big issue. Like, what gets people out of their pajamas? What gets people to go shopping, go to the office when they can do everything on their couch sitting Indian style? I'm sorry I shouldn't say Indian style; sitting cross legged. It really got me focused on what is interesting real estate and that led us to start really from San Francisco investing south of Market Street, to Georgetown in D.C., to buying less traditional projects. And so, you could say that if that's the ... The first move was migration to big cities. The second was focus on interesting buildings. The third was back to the Sun Belt, but with a focus on those interesting buildings. I spent a lot of time in 2000, in the early 2000s, [with] people saying, \"You do billions of dollars of deals all over the country. Why are you not active in Atlanta?\" And I would always give my reasons, you know, no supply constraint, too loose zoning. I love the demographics, but all the buildings are sort of similar. They're sort of glass towers on or near Peachtree Street, or the shopping is a lot of Lenox and Phipps type stuff. And that led to Ponce City Market, because I decided at that point in time, if I was ever going to really come back to Atlanta, it had to be something that would feel authentic. I didn't wanna do something that was simply a glass tower on Peachtree Street. I wanted to do something interesting and engaging. And so, coming after the Great Recession, I cold called Mayor Kasim Reed and said, \"You need to sell my company Ponce City Market, because we know what to do with it.\" And he said ... I have a lot of respect for Mayor Reed. He said, \"Why do you think you know what do with it? I said, \"Have you ever been to Chelsea Market in New York?\" And he said, \"No, I haven't.\" I said, \"You need to go up to Chelsea Market. You need to.\" And I had been very involved early in the High Line in New York. Back in the early 2000s, when most people thought the High Line was kind of a stupid idea, I had championed it shortly after we bought Chelsea Market in roughly 2003.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=2863.0,3595.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And for those listening to this interview, they may ask, \"What is the High Line?\" So, could you share with us a little bit about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=3595.0,3601.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: The High Line is the Beltline, in effect. It was the first rails-to-trails program in the country really and people thought it was kind of crazy. [They said,] \"You're going to do what?\" And it was this interesting walking path.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=3601.0,3617.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: There is an old, abandoned rail, subway line ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=3617.0,3621.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Old, abandoned.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=3621.0,3622.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: ... on the west side of lower Manhattan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=3622.0,3622.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: On the west side of lower Manhattan. I was involved very early in the High Line because I thought it would be really good for Chelsea Market and our other ... We're the largest landlord in the Meatpacking District in New York and we owned other buildings in addition to Chelsea Market. And the Highline was part of the story. So, I convinced Mayor Reed to go to New York, see the High line. Remember, back then, they were trying to get the Beltline going, but there was nothing on the Beltline and most people thought it was a joke. I basically said to him, \"You need to. Ponce City Market can be the economic engine to make the Beltline happen. You need jobs on the Beltline, and we can provide those jobs.\" I understand what the Beltline needs to be, candidly, because I've been to this dance. People say to me, \"Why did you think Ponce City Market would be successful?\" I was derivative off of Jamestown. I mean, Chelsea Market, there's so many similarities: two million square foot, 1920s warehouses next to an abandoned rail line. [It is like] deja vu. To the mayor's credit—and I really give him a ton of credit—he agreed to sell the building to Jamestown. We closed in roughly 2011 or so. And we had a real vision. I was the advocate, but I'm very fortunate. Through everything we learned from Chelsea Market and other investments from Georgetown to Southam Market, we really, and to Newberry Street in Boston, we had a ton of expertise in how do you create place, how do create community? That has really benefited everything we sought to do at Ponce City Market. You know, in some ways, Ponce City Market was crazy. I mean, it's funny. People sometimes say, \"Oh, you got the building so cheap,\" and we negotiated hard. We basically paid upfront $15 million with a profit participation to the city, and we still hope to pay out the city on that profit participation. But people will say to me, \"Oh, you've got this two million square foot building for $15 million.\" But the fact of the matter is we've spent $500 million. What we paid up front—and this is part of our discussion with the city—was a rounding error. You know, and funny, I joke, the mayor and I, and the city probably spent six months negotiating. Is it 15? Is it 40? Is it 30? Is it ... I was saying, \"You should give it to me for nothing.\" And in some ways, I joked afterwards with the mayor that the six months was more important than the purchase price, because we need to get going. We had a vision. We knew what we wanted to do. We have a great team of creative people. Again, you're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a building, whether it's 15 or something else is less important. So, we bought Ponce City Market and we really set about trying to create a place which we knew was going to be challenging, though we had some, we had a lot of wind at our sails. One was Ponce City Market within this old City Hall East had become a bit of the eyesore in the neighborhood. People were living in that neighborhood already. Molly grew up right around the corner. She could almost see it from her upstairs. And so, the neighborhood around ... I really am a believer, again, in demographics, that just as I talked about young people wanted to be in the Chelsea neighborhood, young people wanted to be in the Virginia-Highlands, Old Fourth Ward, Inman Park [neighborhoods of Atlanta]. So, I knew we were increasingly surrounded by the exact people companies wanted working for them. And I knew that tech companies wanted to there. One of my favorite stories about ... I talk a lot about what is it that makes a building sticky? What makes people wanna come there? Whether it's a retail project or an office building or an apartment building, why do people wanna be there? We owned a bunch of different buildings in the Meatpacking District. One was Chelsea Market; another was called 111 8th Avenue. We sold 111 8th Avenue to Google. The building was huge. It's a three million square foot. It was the old World Trade Center and we sold it to Google. The building had a fair amount of vacancy, and they wanted to buy the building. Early on, I said to them, \"So, you haven't raised moving out.\" Google was also in Chelsea Market. I said, \"You haven't raised yet. Are you going to move out of Chelsea Market?\" The guy at Google said to me, \"Why would you say that to me?\" I'm like, \"Well, you're spending $1.8 billion, roughly, to buy a building. I assume you're going to move.\" And he was like, \"No, we're not moving out of Chelsea Market. It's part of our brand identity. My people would riot if I tried to move out of Chelsea Market.\" And I want to contrast that with what Sam Zell said in that speech to me roughly almost 15 years before about [how] tenants will move for a quarter a square foot. I felt like we were creating something sticky. The same thing was our vision at Ponce City Market. One of my favorite other stories of the business is our first big tenant at Ponce City Market was called Athena Healthcare. They were based in Cambridge [Massachusetts] in an old building and they wanted to have a Southeastern headquarters and hire a couple hundred people. The head of the company, a guy named Jonathan Bush, who funny enough is running for governor of Maine right now, I think, came down and was touring the market and was looking in Buckhead and all over. He said to his broker, \"Really, this real estate isn't very interesting. I mean, is there anything more interesting you could show me?\" And the broker said, \"Well, this is Atlanta. This is kind of what you get. Now, there's a group renovating an old building right now, you know, the old City Hall East building, but I have to tell you, it's an unsafe neighborhood and I wouldn't recommend going there at night.\" True story. And he said, \"I want to see it.\" I happened to be in town, good fortune. They called me and said, \"Could you meet this guy from Athena and his broker?\" I'm like, \"Yeah, but we're going to need to use hard hats because the building is being renovated.\" We're walking around the building and Jonathan Bush is looking at all the old switch gear, and the high ceilings, and the brick. In front of me, he turns to his broker and says, \"I can't believe you wasted all my time showing me all that crap. I'm only coming to Atlanta if I can be at Ponce City Market.\" I'm like, this is the greatest day of my leasing career. I might as well call it quits now. And that was the experience we had in the early days, leasing up Ponce City Market, is people were saying, \"I want to be a part of that.\" And this is my whole focus on community. People wanted to be part of the Ponce community. Whether they were locals, whether they were office tenants, people wanted to embrace this idea of community. By the way, I think this focus on the community is even more important today. In a world where social media ... We get torn apart, so many young people. One of my favorite writers is a guy by the name of Scott Galloway. He talks a lot about the loneliness of people, in particular, young men, that we have a real crisis of 20-something men not going to school, being lonely, not spending time with people. But it's true for all people. But it is even more true, I think, for younger people. How do you create community? And one of the things I've really focused my career on both my volunteerism and my business life is how do you create community? How do you get people to feel like they're something, part of something bigger, that they have bonds with people who are different than them? And that's from my involvement in [the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta] to my involvement in day schools here. I realize I'm jumping around. My involvement ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=3622.0,4183.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Well, we are going to get to that. I want to take your conversation about the global business community and dial down a little bit, or maybe up, depending upon your perspective, and talk a little bit about the Matt Bronfman and Ronit Walker community. All right. Matt, let us talk a bit about ...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4183.0,4207.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I do ramble. I'm sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4207.0,4209.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: That is okay. Let us talk a little bit about your family. You and Ronit are the proud parents of children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4209.0,4214.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: We have three wonderful children. We are so fortunate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4214.0,4216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Tell us a little about them, each one of them, and tell us a bit about each one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4216.0,4220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: My oldest is Kyra, [who] was born in the beginning in 1999. She got her master's in public health and social work from NYU [New York University in New York City, New York] and she's working as a therapist in New York City. My middle son, Sam, is an investment banker. He went to Texas Business School [in Houston, Texas] and is working as an investment banker. He now is in New York. He did start out in Atlanta but then moved up to New York for an opportunity. My youngest, Micah, graduated from Vanderbilt [University in Nashville, Tennessee]. They're basically two years apart. He was a computer science major, and funny enough, he is a software engineer. He graduated in May of last year. He started a few months ago at Google in New York and is working at Chelsea Market, which is really funny. So, the first day, they're giving them this tour, and the tour guide is explaining to them that, \"Google now owns that building as well, but it's managed and run by a company called Jamestown, who we bought the building from and continues to do a lot of work with us.\" And Micah is just sort of laughing to himself as his tour guide's talking about this company called Jamestown.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4220.0,4303.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Great story. Tell us a little bit about them growing up in Atlanta and the family that you created with Ronit here in Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4303.0,4311.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Take a step back. Ronit grew up here. She went to Hebrew Academy and Riverwood High School. I am very fortunate. I have really wonderful in-laws, Ben and Ruth Walker. Ben is a presence here at the Breman. He is a Holocaust survivor. My mother-in-law was born and raised in Chile. Her family fled Eastern Europe before the war, and she was born in the early 1940s in Chile. They met. My father-in-law was teaching. He survived, ended up in Israel, then America, then back to Israel, served in the war in the 1950s. [He] came here to teach at University of Syracuse [New York] in the 1960s and met my mother-in-law, who was on a Fulbright scholarship at Syracuse, and that's how they met. He moved down here because he was hired to be the education director at a new synagogue called Temple Sinai, which of course now is a major institution, but when he joined it, it was kind of the alternative synagogue. It was sort of a break away from the Temple, as I understand it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4311.0,4390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: And so, you and Ronit have three children. Tell us a little bit about the family, where do you live and what part of town, and their formative years growing up in what I call now Jewish Atlanta and non-Jewish Atlanta.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4390.0,4409.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: [They] grew up in town, pretty much throughout our years here. We've lived in different homes in Virginia-Highlands, Morningside, and now Ansley Park, but we've been in town. Our kids all went to the Epstein School, and so, we did a reverse commute for a long time. Kyra started out at Morningside Elementary, which we liked very much, but I think Ronit had the pull of being the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and felt that she wanted to do something different. So, we ended up sending all three kids to the Epstein School. Both Ronit and I, at different points, were on the board there at the Epstein School. So, although we've been in town, I also feel very close to the suburban community as I was on the ... You know, we commuted out to Epstein all those years. I was the board of Epstein. My in-laws lived in Sandy Springs in the same house in which Ronit grew up [in] until just a couple of years ago. My wife grew up off of Wyncourtney [Drive] in Sandy Springs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4409.0,4488.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: You have taken on leadership positions here in the Atlanta community besides business. Tell us a little bit about some of them. You were on the board of the Epstein School. You are also very active at Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. Tell us about your involvement with that organization.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4488.0,4508.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: My role models were my parents. I feel like Judaism and religion are very important to me, though I joke I'm the convert compared to my wife. I grew up very Reformed, at an era when Reform really was Reformed. My wife grew up more religious. She doesn't ... You know, she keeps kosher to a substantial degree, in particular inside the home. And religion has been very ... Again, for me, it's community. It's something I believe in, [as well as] Jewish values around education, family, et cetera. So, the Jewish community has really helped tether me. It's an important part of who I am in Atlanta. I was fortunate to be board chair of Jewish Federation. I was on the board of the Epstein School. I was on the board at the Weber School. And it's been ... I feel like I've had great fortune and I feel some of it is definitely tied to trying to do the right thing. I joke with my kids, I can't stop. I feel the more involved I've been in community the luckier I've gotten, so I can't stop because I'm on a good luck streak. You know, like, I got so much of my business success and having healthy kids, I feel like I made some ... Part of why we came back to Atlanta is Ben and Ruth Walker were here. They had ... Ronit's sister is disabled. She was disabled. She passed away about 10 years ago. Ben and Ruth had kind of a hard time. I mean, they had a disabled child, they were immigrants ... Both Ronit and I felt that we had a duty to come back here. We looked at going to other cities, not just Kansas City, but we thought about going to South Florida, another growing city, or we thought about going to Southern California. I love Los Angeles. A lot of people don't love Southern California. We had clerked out there together, and we thought [about] living in L.A., but we really felt like, with Ronit's parents here and her disabled sister here, we had something of an obligation to return here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4508.0,4654.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: What was her sister's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4654.0,4656.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Her name was Naomi. She had a rare Jewish disease called Dysautonomia. And she was a miracle. I mean, they were told when she was young, she wouldn't be able to achieve much in life. She went to college, law school, she practiced law, she got married. She was amazing. She died 10 years ago at [I am] gonna say roughly early 40s and really exceeded all expectations. [She was] one of the few people with Dysautonomia to ever get a graduate degree. She was amazing. Coming back here, you know, it sounds silly, but I feel like we made a decision to come back here partially because it was ... There were different reasons, but part of it was the right thing to do. And I feel that decision, to some degree, to do the right things has contributed meaningfully to our business and personal success.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4656.0,4720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: We are here at the Breman Museum, which for many decades housed the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. So, I want to dig a little bit deeper about your experiences with Federation and how you got involved, who some of your mentors were, and some of the things that you did, you know, leading up to your position as board chair.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4720.0,4742.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I got recruited into Federation in the 1990s, sort of a young leadership thing by some young people who were then working at Federation, a couple names [were] Steve Klasky-Gamer and Cindy Goldberg. Steve is a Jewish professional in L.A. now. Cindy is here in Atlanta still, I think. And really, intellectually, I really buy the Federated model of giving. Some people have gotten away from it and just wanna do what they want to do. You know, like, \"I don't need to give in the Federate model.\" I compare it to stock picking. People tell me all the time, \"I don't need to give to Federation. I give to this school, that school, this organization. I don't need to give in a federated model.\" And I say, \"Look, if you believe in the U.S. stock market, if you think the U.S. stock market's where you should be investing your money for a host of reasons, I would gladly tell you [to] go ahead and pick three to five stocks where you have conviction. But would that ever tell you that you shouldn't also invest in some funds? You're not an expert. You have a day job. Yeah, go ahead, pick, make the three to five bets that are important to you. But you should be investing in funds, too, because guess what? One of your three stocks might be Enron. You might be choosing poorly. And two, some of what a fund can do is invest in the research and time to fund innovation and take a unique ... have access to information that you don't. So, sure, go ahead and pick your three to five stocks. But also invest in some funds that are doing some innovative things and investing in biotech that you know nothing about. You shouldn't be investing in bio-tech. What do you know about what public companies are best? So, do some mutual fund investing, but make your three to five bets.\" And I feel the same way that the Federation model is incredibly important. I don't care if you're a billionaire or what you're doing. Make your own bets. But the Federation is able to think intentionally around innovation and have insights that you are never going to be able to gather individually. So, I firmly believe in the Federation model, and I really wanted to support it. I'm also keenly aware that the Federation supports basically everything, from Jewish day schools that do their own fundraising to innovation, and monitors things and also does what I call important wayfinding around where demographics, where I think one of the important things the Federation can do is fund studies around. Again, I'm a demographer at heart. I feel like, as a real estate person, I think every day about what cities do people wanna be and what neighborhoods do people want to be in. To me, that's what real estate's all about, but to me, that's what the Federation could do on the Jewish community. It can think intentionally around, \"What resources do we need in Johns Creek? What resources do we need in Peachtree City,\" in a way that is really unique. They have access to that data and thinking holistically about, \"What does the greater Atlantic community need,\" that I feel that's sort of wayfinding that's sort of providing. Market intelligence all that stuff is so important. So, I think the Federation is indispensable to a city like Atlanta, especially a city like Atlanta that's attracting new people, that's demographics are constantly changing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4742.0,4977.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Sure. As we think about the past, and we have talked a little bit about the present, I want to talk a little about the future and some of your hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Shrinking down a little of all the work you are doing nationally in other cities through work, now let us focus a little bit about Atlanta. What are the things that you hope and dream of for the greater Atlanta Jewish community? What are some of the things you were thinking about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=4977.0,5012.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I think a lot about having physical walls in a lot of locations. I think we need to think about having places people can gather to form that community. In some ways, I'm more focused on it in town, but not exclusively. My focus more in town is in town continues to garner. And this is my day job again. In-town continues to get the most number of 20-somethings people moving to the city, and I very much worry about where are those people forming communities. You can have birthright when people are in college. You're going to have Hillel in college, and you can have synagogues all over the greater area which are super important for families with kids and older people, and that's super important. One of my concerns right now, as I said before, is about what are 20-somethings who are kind of lonely in my ... Statistically, if you look at the numbers, [they] are kind a lonely generation who spend too much time on social media. You can move here in your 20s, and you may have been active in Hillel, but if you move here and you're 20s and you work at a tech company, consulting firm, law firm, waiter, waitress, what have you, more likely than not, you're living inside the perimeter. How are you finding your Jewish community? Because if you don't find it in your 20s and you marry outside the faith, I worry we're never gonna get those people back. We should continue to work to get those people back. So, I'm very focused on that 20-something [group] and keeping them. Jewishly, but also just statistically, that's a group of people that they need ... How do they form their bonds and that sort of thing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=5012.0,5133.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Matt, as we wind up today's discussion and sort of bring it to a conclusion, we have talked a little bit about your family, your grandparents, and your parents, and your wife, Ronit, and her family, and their Atlanta Jewish experience. You know, your children right now grew up in Atlanta, but they live other places. What are the things that we can do to help make a thriving Jewish community one where maybe one day your children, and grandchildren, and others listening to this would want to come back to or be part of?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=5133.0,5168.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: I love the way you put that. One of the things I have often said in doing Ponce City Market was I wanted to do, to create something that would draw 20-somethings back to Atlanta. And if all we have is glass towers and shopping malls, it's going to be harder to get those people back. What really draws people back to Atlanta [are] things like the Beltline and Ponce City Market. I don't want to make it exclusively about Jamestown assets. There's plenty of people doing cool things, you know, including in the suburbs. I think Avalanche a really great project. I think The Battery, where the braves play is a really great project that does a good job of creating community around the Braves, and bars, and restaurants and that sort of thing. I think Atlanta has to continue to form these engaging areas. One thing else I should say, that as you start to think about winding down, I should emphasize if I haven't enough, again, my story has won a good fortune. One of the ways in which I'm very fortunate is I married really well. To this day, I really think I got the better end of the bargain. I think my wife is smarter, better looking, and a better athlete than I am. I'm very fortunate to have Ronit in my life after 35 years. I wanted to just make that plug. Because it's true. I actually think that and I'm probably ... I've been fortunate in a lot of ways, but I can't say how fortunate. I have three kids who call me all the time. I call them all the time. I'm really fortunate that I'm in close contact with all of them. As for Atlanta, I think I really do ... When I think about projects, I think of our places that people want to gather. And that isn't just Ponce. Like, we own a lot of grocery anchored centers around the Sun Belt, including in Sandy Springs. We own the Whole Foods. We own The Kroger on Roswell Road. We own, you know, a lot of that sort of thing. But one of the things we like to do with those projects is try to create community, get people to wanna come there more than simply to go grocery shopping. We try to do a lot events. We try to have concerts. I think one of things we all need to do is try foster community. Because again, it's just so easy for people to stay home today. I don't think that's healthy. It's so easy to just listen to your podcasts of people who scream at you and tell you exactly what you want to hear about how great [Donald] Trump is or how terrible Trump is, and that does nothing to really advance society or community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=5168.0,5351.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Arogeti: Matt, as an observer of the Atlanta Jewish community, and I want to say that you have been a significant thinker about creating Jewish spaces. Professionally, you're excellent at creating commercial real estate spaces, but you bring a unique talent to the Atlanta community that is helping us in leadership revisit creating Jewish spaces, both inside the city, and in the suburbs, and in deeper ex-suburbs. I want to commend you. Teaching tells us that the work we do is never really finished, but that does not give us an excuse to stop trying. And so, both in business and in our greater Jewish community, I wanna say thank you for what you have done. Our work is not finished, but that does not mean we can stop trying. So, on behalf of a very grateful Jewish community, I want to thank you for sharing in this discussion. That concludes our conversation today with Matt Bromfman. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=5351.0,5424.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/transcript/94186/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bronfman: Thank you, this is meaningful for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=5424.0,5426.98778"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/annotation_set/2599","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/annotation_set/2599/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1967, \u003cem\u003eOur Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York\u003c/em\u003e is a book by Stephen Birmingham that examines the social and financial histories of influential Jewish families in New York City in the 20th century.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=121.0,190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/annotation_set/2599/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eFounded in 1946, Mensa International is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. 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It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died. The majority were civilians. It included massacres, the deliberate genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, starvation, disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons against civilians in history.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=428.0,482.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/annotation_set/2599/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa, and the Middle East, and their descendants. 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Historically, the vernacular language of Sephardic Jews was Ladino, a Romance language derived from Old Spanish, incorporating elements from the old Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, Hebrew, Aramaic, and in the lands receiving those who were exiled, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian, and Serbo-Croatian vocabulary.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482#t=522.0,557.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/170603/file/309482/annotation_set/2599/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Temple, or Congregation B'nai Jehudah, is the oldest and largest Jewish congregation in the in Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area. Established in 1870, it was a founding member of the Union for Reform Judaism. 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The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta was formally incorporated in 1967 as a merger of three precursor organizations: the Atlanta Federation for Jewish Social Service (founded in 1905), the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund (founded in 1936), and the Atlanta Jewish Community Council (founded in 1945). It is a regional branch of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). The Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta raises funds, which are dispersed throughout the Jewish community. 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