New York City Economic Development Corporation

So we both went our own ways.

I went to work for the New York City Economic Development Corporation out of college and a real estate brokerage firm.

and then dave went to work for a consulting firm in arizona and he called me up one day in uh in 1992 and said listen you know we talked about this uh we discussed this you know in um in basically in the you know the dorms at cornell let's the time is now to do this and so in 1993 we built our first small project it was a tiny warehouse in delco pennsylvania and uh you know it's i still drive by it uh pretty regularly so

that is really cool man what did you do with the warehouse you just bought it and leased it out to somebody or how'd that work

on Wall Street.

And so my friends were making money.

I was working at the New York City Economic Development Corporation making $20,000 a year.

I'm like, I got to do something that's going to be a little bit more lucrative.

And so we've been really learning a lot more about material specific pathways, what materials can be harvested before a demo permit, who will take them, what tools are out there to inventory those materials or to match make with potential buyers regionally for that market.

More about regional infrastructure here in New York, like the circular construction hub, which is actually a brand new resource sponsored by the New York City Economic Development Corporation and led by an ecological landscape organization called Artemenos that has come in to be able to store materials and then be able to resell them to a local network of contractors and designers and makers and sellers.

Yeah, so it's been really something that is evolving and ever changing.

And I feel like every time you feel like you start to know something really specific about glass, for example, like 10 other opportunities open up.

Like, this is not working.

So I go back to law in 2016 and I go get a job at New York City Economic Development Corporation.

But now it's a nine to five.

It's so not like the firm.

I do, yeah.

I'm working at the New York City Economic Development Corporation on the strategy team.

Basically internal consulting.

So I guess the question that comes to mind is, like, what's the scope, right? So are you talking New York City? Are you talking, you know, the state of New York? Are you talking the United States? Like, what has been the scope that has sort of shaped how far you expand? 'Cause, like, it can just grow and grow and grow.