Socially Responsible Real Estate in China
The Center for Real Estate—and the Institute as a whole—marked a major milestone in January with one of the largest gifts in MIT’s history: $118 million to establish a real estate entrepreneurship lab that will promote social responsibility among entrepreneurs and academics worldwide, with particular focus on China. Here, President L. Rafael Reif thanks Samuel Tak Lee ’62, SM ’64 (right), for his gift.

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