Stephanie Rogowski, 39

Stephanie Rogowski has been an instrumental part of some of office ownership and development giant SL Green’s most complex real estate developments, including ground-up new construction, redevelopments, repositionings, renovations and adaptive reuse projects across New York.

When she’s not crushing it at the gym, spending time with her two little boys, or doing contrast therapy — alternating between intense heat and cold (yikes) — with her husband, Rogowski is working on a variety of projects for SL Green. Her work runs from the initial concept through construction administration, running the firm’s consultant teams, and managing an internal design group. 

“I started with SL Green May of 2019,” she said. “I’ve always worked on large-scale projects as an architect, and, while I was working on One Vanderbilt [with KPF], I started to understand that architecture was just one small piece of the pie, and that there was a much bigger conversation happening around projects.”

Just working on the design, the architecture and the technical coordination of a building wasn’t enough for Rogowski anymore. She didn’t want to work on just a piece of the pie — she wanted to get her hands in the dough from start to finish. 

One such project is 346 Madison Avenue, a ground-up office project that is a joint venture development with Mori Building Company, a Japanese family-owned property management firm. 346 Madison Avenue is a block from Grand Central Terminal and across from SL Green’s One Vanderbilt.

“I’m really excited to be on this project from the moment that the buildings were acquired, to then seeing it all the way through,” Rogowski said of 346 Madison. 

Rogowski has been working in development since 2008, when she started as an architect with Pickard Chilton. While she is approaching 20 years in the industry, in many ways she says she feels like she’s just begun. 

“I’ve heard it said that, for women, 40 to 50 is their decade,” she said. “It’s when you have enough knowledge and wisdom built up that you’re ready to apply it. You have enough of a foundation to really make a difference, and I’m excited for that.”