Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals, 02/26/19 Combined

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THE UN-MIRROR

RECRUITING CEOS

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018 | VOL. 54, No. 9

YOUR ONLY SOURCE FOR REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS

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CEO brings ‘more modern’ buzz to regional business group BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com

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guess I’m pretty old for this position — but I’m still having a

good time.” So says Michael E. “Mickey” Herbert, the 73-year-old president and CEO of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council (BRBC). A longtime health care industry entrepreneur, the former president and CEO of ConnectiCare and a former owner of the Bridgeport Bluefish minor league baseball club, Herbert took the reins at the regional business group in November 2016, His “good time” there is due at least in part to the BRBC’s agreeing to let him shake things up at the once-staid 145-year-old organization. “I spent a lot of 2017 trying to transform the BRBC into a more modern business association that people can be excited about,” he said. Most of those moves were internal and sound fairly mundane: upgrading its audiovisual capabilities, restructuring its human resources processes, and revising its marketing » CEO

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A view, looking across to South Broadway and East Post Road, of the razed downtown site where Lennar is redesigning its mixed-use redevelopment, two years after site plans were approved. Photo by Ryan Deffenbaugh.

Back to the drawing board LENNAR REDESIGNS ONE, TAKES ON SECOND PROJECT IN WHITE PLAINS

BY RYAN DEFFENBAUGH rdeffenbaugh@westfairinc.com

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ith a newly launched office in Stamford, Lennar Multifamily Communities plans to focus more of its attention on the New York City metropolitan region. That will include two large-scale developments in downtown White Plains already approved by the city, one by Lennar that has been delayed for two years and another that just came under the company’s supervision. Greg Belew, Lennar Multifamily Communities’ city president for the New York tristate region, recently told the Business Journal that the company is reworking plans for its major redevelopment of the former Westchester Pavilion mall site. A short distance from that razed lot

Inset: Lennar’s approved design for residential towers.

on South Broadway, the Californiabased company has also taken over an already approved mixeduse development project at the corner of Mamaroneck Avenue and East Post Road. With the two projects, Lennar is in a position to construct more than 1,000 apartments in White Plains over the next few years. Belew, speaking from the company’s office at 1 Landmark Square in Stamford, framed the two projects as part of an enhanced commitment to

the region from the company. “We’ve shifted our center of gravity up to here and we’re getting much more active here,” Belew said. The company had previously managed projects in the region from its Herndon, Virginia, office in the Washington D.C., suburbs. Lennar Multifamily is an arm of the publicly traded Lennar Corp. The Miami-based development company became the nation’s largest homebuilder » LENNAR DESIGNS

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