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Business news August 9, 2018

New Addition to the Crawford Lake Capital Management Team

In recent news, Crawford Lake Capital Management, LLC has appointed Dov Lando as General Counsel and as their Chief Compliance Officer. Crawford is a privately-held investment management firm. Their team is lead by Isaac Markowitz and Jack Herzka and they have approximately $800 million in assets under management. They do so for a diverse group of clients from public institutions and individuals to private organizations. Dov Lando comes to Crawford Lake Capital from MKP Capital…

Uncategorized July 7, 2018

Walmart Buys Brooklyn Start-Up

Just because Walmart does not have a store of its own anywhere in New York City does not mean New Yorkers can’t get the Walmart goods to their doors, pronto. Over the course of the past year Walmart has made five e-commerce purchases to insure its online customers that they can have same-day delivery of Walmart products. The latest purchase is of Brooklyn startup Parcel for almost $10 million. Parcel was launched in 2013 by…

New York business April 7, 2018

Made in New York Coming to Fashion and Film Industries

Sunset Park is slated to become the home of a new “Made in NY” campus as $136 million is dedicated to a facelift of an old Brooklyn warehouse. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his ambitious plan to construct a city-run complex that will rent out space to television and movie makers and companies in the fashion industry. The project is predicting the addition of 1,500 new, permanent jobs by the year 2020…

Brooklyn news November 7, 2017

Brooklyn Betting on China as a New and Huge Trade Partner

Chinese investors are the force behind Pacific Park, the uber-development which Brooklynites from way back refer to as the Atlantic Yards. In December the country’s largest state-owned property developers broke ground there on a mixed-income housing project. President Carlo Scissura of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Photo credit: Twitter Brooklyn businessmen would not only like to see more Chinese money invested in their fair borough, but would like to get some of Brooklyn’s businesses available…

New York business news July 7, 2017

Florida Developer Purchases in Brooklyn

A building in Brooklyn which was the property of Jehovah’s Witnesses was sold to a developer based in Florida, the Wall Street Journal reported. The developer, Kayne Anderson, paid $200 million for the 16-story apartment building located in Brooklyn Heights. The developer renamed the building The Watermark at Brooklyn Heights, whereas it was previously known as the Towers. The plan is to convert the 295-unit residential building to a luxury senior housing with 300 units….

Business news March 7, 2017

VitaminWater Ad Campaign Raises the Bar for Cool Advertising

You may have thought VitaminWater, an energy drink formerly owned by entrepreneur Darius Bikoff, only supplied energy to humans who drink it. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong. In a clever and useful ad campaign found at bus shelters in several cities nationwide commuters can connect their mobile devices a VitaminWater advertisement and juice up while they wait for the bus. The VitaminWater ad campaign, known as “You’re Up” was launched in…

Business news March 7, 2016

Jacques Torres Chocolates Growing in Brooklyn

This past Valentine’s Day marked an important milestone for Jacques Torres Chocolates: they celebrated the opening of a brand new 40,000-square-foot manufacturing plant at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Valentine’s Day is the biggest single day of the year for purchasing chocolates. On that day alone the company sold close to 300 tons of tasty chocolate, 10 percent of that amount coming from Torres’ Sunset Park facility. “I’m infected by your love and passion for chocolate,…