(L – R) Some of The Carolina team, including Eric Calabrese, Mark Trashaj, Jeannine Britt and Josh Elkin We shared a story on our website last week about Jeannine Britt – one of our local hires from Essex Crossing. Through our partnership with the Lower East Side Employment Network (LESEN), Jeannine is now a full-time [...]
The roof deck at The Essex The architecture critic of The New York Times Michael Kimmelman published an extensive review of Essex Crossing this week. The article is a stunning reminder that the Essex Crossing we envisioned is coming to fruition. It seems like Essex Crossing has reached milestone after milestone over the [...]
This week I met the third cohort of the Ron Moelis Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship at a networking breakfast at John Jay College. The Fellowship, which was established in 2017, aims to connect John Jay students with the most socially responsible, innovative companies in New York City as well as a wider community of practice. The [...]
Together with the leadership of School District 1 Community Schools, Delancey Street Associates (DSA) crafted the City Seekers program. The program engaged local schools and encouraged some of their students to discover their own neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. DSA, a joint venture of L+M Development Partners, Taconic Investment Partners, BFC Partners, the Prusik Group and [...]
Recently The Today Show featured a story about Steven Pacheco, one of the inaugural Moelis Social Entrepreneurship Fellows. Steven is a member of the team that won the 2018 Echoing Green’s The Future of Work Social Innovation Challenge for their app, CONNECTr. The team designed the app, which I’ve mentioned on this blog before, to [...]
Joseph Mahmud and Steven Pacheco present CONNECTr, an app to assist formerly incarcerated with employers, at John Jay College in New York City. Last year on this blog I mentioned that I’ve partnered with John Jay College to create the Ron Moelis Social Innovation Fellowship. The Fellowship is meant to support students who [...]
Earlier this month, leaders from across the construction industry gathered to celebrate women in construction, including two of our own from L+M. I’d like to congratulate Bernadette Amarosa and Amy Cordone, winners at this year’s Outstanding and Next Generation of Women Builders Annual Awards. The annual awards recognize exceptional women in the construction industry [...]
Via New York Magazine I found this article, "The Urban Housing Crisis Is a Test for Progressive Politics" by Jonathan Chait, to be well worth the read. It's an interesting piece about NIMBYism (not-in-my-backyard) and fears of gentrification. Living and working in New York City, we are witness to a lot of change and [...]
Earlier this year, I shared the news of the first building at Essex Crossing nearing completion. Now, residents have moved in. Read more about the new residents of Frances Goldin—A Homecoming 50 Years in the Making, New York Times The building, named for local activist Frances Goldin, is a 100% affordable [...]
We are so thrilled to welcome home our first Essex Crossing residents at Site 6, a 100% affordable senior building, and the first building to open at the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The first residents to have moved into the building at Site 6 (located at [...]