August 7, 2012
“..the factory on the Brooklyn side of Newtown Creek has not suffered the fate of many old industrial buildings: conversion into residential lofts for artists or bankers to live in.”
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August 8, 2012
“The scale of the manufacturing in Brooklyn’s industrial buildings has become smaller and more specialized.”
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August 2, 2012
“The effort in St. Paul is unusual but not unprecedented. In fact, it is modeled on work done by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center, a non-profit that has bought and redeveloped six buildings over the last decade.”
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May 16, 2012
“In addition to the local economic development benefits, the environmental advantages of retrofitting existing buildings to enable the production of local goods by local workers are huge. “
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May 11, 2012
“The goal of GMDC would be two-fold: to include historic preservation of buildings and to keep rents affordable for industrial tenants. “
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Brian T. Coleman
Chief Executive Officer
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Michael Cavagnaro
Chief Financial Officer
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Cassandra Smith
Senior Project Manager
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Gustavo Martinez
Project Manager
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Curtis Biederbeck
Property/Leasing Manager
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Gerri Duka
Assistant to the CFO/Office Manager
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Liv Collins
Assistant Project Manager
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Kate Ascher, Chair
Professor, Columbia University
Libby Ryan, Vice Chair
Broker, Compass
Harry Schwartz, Secretary
Urban Planner
Rosalind Paaswell, Treasurer
CEO NDC Resources, Grow America
Brian T. Coleman
CEO, GMDC
Mort Goldfein
Retired Attorney, Wilk Auslander LLP
Sebastian Hardy
Principal, Continentia Capital
Lorinda Karoff
Principal, Karoff Consulting
Judith Kunoff
Senior Vice President, Project & Program Management, WSP
Adam Tell Metzger
Senior Vice President, Equity Investments, The Community Preservation Corporation
Michael Nixon
Credit Analyst/Business Development Officer, Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp.
Meghan Taylor-Steshyn
Senior Program Officer, Mission Real Estate Development, Trinity Church NYC
July 15, 2011
“Last month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new initiative aimed at expanding and strengthening New York City’s small industrial businesses.”
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November 17, 2010
This year GMDC conducted its second tenant survey with the goal of generating a current statistical portrait of the tenants that occupy GMDC buildings. The information gathered from the 2010 survey demonstrates that manufacturing and artisanal businesses are vital to New York City as they significantly contribute to the local communitity in a variety of ways from stimulating the economy to providing full-time jobs to local residents of all walks of life.
Here are the results: GMDC Tenant Survey 2010
November 8, 2010
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