Fairfield County Business Journal 031119

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MARCH 11, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 10

Rendering of David Mann’s Westport project.

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Small projects, big results WESTPORT PROJECT EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED THIS SUMMER BY DEVELOPER MANN

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LACK OF INVESTOR OPTIMISM

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STAMFORD ON ITS OWN

BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com

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or White Plainsbased developer David Mann, comparatively small apartment projects have been the focus since he got into real estate a decade ago. His projects are in sharp contrast to things like Toll Brothers’ 421-unit rental complex under construction off Westchester Avenue in Harrison, the 303

apartments Robert Weisz’s RPW Group and the NRP Group want to build at 1133 Westchester Ave., in White Plains or the plan for Marcus Partners and Trammell Crow to build 450 apartments at 3 Westchester Park Drive in Harrison. Mann sees his current success reflected in both the March 5 grand opening of his 76 rental apartments at 1 DeKalb Ave. in White Plains and the steady progress he’s been making to

advance a mixed-use project in Westport, Connecticut, containing 28 residential units. The Westport project is expected to be completed this summer. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1999, Mann started working in his family’s business in New York’s garment center, but eventually realized he wasn’t cut out for it. He enrolled in New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate. He received a master’s degree in real estate development and founded Lighthouse Living. Growing up, he had lived on Lighthouse Road in Great Neck. “There’s just a big » WESTPORT

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Blake Leonard, Stew Leonard Jr. and Britt Tavello Melitsanopoulos. Photo by Sebastián Flores.

PLENTY OF EMOTION EXPRESSED AT FAMILY-OWNED BUSINESS AWARDS BY KEVIN ZIMMERMAN kzimmerman@westfairinc.com TALES BOTH HUMOROUS AND POIGNANT WERE HEARD at the annual Westfair Communications FamilyOwned Business Awards on March 5, honoring more than 20 businesses from Westchester and Fairfield counties.

Some of the humor was reliably supplied by honoree Stew Leonard Jr., who took over as president and CEO of the Norwalk-based company his father founded in 1991. Recalling an instance when his brother had to be disciplined by Stew Leonard Sr., he said that his father told him that he wore two » FOB

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