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MPI Welcomes New Town Center Leasing Team February 15, 2012
MPI brings the company’s Town Center portfolio Leasing in house and welcomes aboard industry veterans, Jim Davis, as the Vice President of Leasing and David Holtzman, as a Director of Leasing along with recently promoted Director of Leasing, Grace Ya...
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The Chapman Apartments wins Builder's Choice Grand Award November 8, 2011
The Chapman at the Peninsula Town Center won a Grand Award in the Infill/Mixed-use Community category of the 31st annual Builder's Choice Design & Planning Awards. For more than 30 years, BUILDER has enlisted top builders and residential architects a...
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Best Places to Live in NY: Life on the Oval July 1, 2011
Parkchester can save you green while surrounding you with greenery Lush walkways lined with London plane trees, playgrounds around almost every corner, small fields of grass surrounded by benches — life in Parkchester, as the name implies, is like l...
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Awards for Olshan Hotels June 1, 2011
Fairfax Marriott at Fair Oaks 2008 Marriott Eastern Region GM Awards – Sales Leadership Award – Michelle Donovan 2008 Marriott Eastern Region GM Awards – Market Share Excellence Most Improved 2008 Olshan Cup Winner – Full Service Residence Inn by Ma...
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MPI’s Town Center Portfolio Gives Back Over $575,000 through Community Foundation Efforts in 2010 June 1, 2011
The Town Center Community Foundations at Bayshore Town Center, The Greene Town Center, Peninsula Town Center and Zona Rosa Town Center, fund a number of youth and family-focused non-profit organizations, programs and scholarships in their communitie...
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The rebirth of a housing icon: Parkchester, Bronx December 4, 2009
Real estate still makes dreams come true. In Parkchester, a 171-building, 129-acre, 12,271-unit city-within-a-city in north-central Bronx, they do everyday. This big dream, affordable housing for working-class New Yorkers, got started 70 years ago b...
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129 Acres, Renewed Yet Affordable October 7, 2007
After living on a noisy street in Washington Heights for eight years, Evelyn Liston decided in 2004 to search for quieter surroundings. Like many heroic quests, hers was marked by high ideals, momentary defeats and, in the end, redemption. “I looked...
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Finding deals in city’s pricey rental market: Parkchester $900+ a month September 1, 2007
Daily News, September 2007 ...Anywhere else in America, Parkchester - the apartment complex - could be its own city. If you include the entire east Bronx neighborhood, also called Parkchester, the numbers are even bigger. But by itself, the massive d...
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A Successful Experiment in Living: The Evolution of Parkchester July 1, 2006
Nearly 150 years ago, the grounds of Parkchester in the Bronx served as a shelter for New York City’s homeless children. It was a place where kids could learn a trade and get a second chance. Today, Parkchester is enjoying its own second chance, a r...
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Still a Beacon, Parkchester Climbs Back March 14, 2004
New York Times: Real Estate Section, 2004 FOR a generation after it opened in 1940, and before it stumbled into a period of decline, the Parkchester apartment complex in the Bronx was a symbol of the American Dream, a meticulously planned community f...
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