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By Joanna DelBuono
Brooklyn Daily
Brooklyn Heights
Doff your hats and welcome Mitzi Flexer, the new director of retail leasing at Massey Knakal Realty Services.
The uber executive will focus on the Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace, South Slope, and Bay Ridge. Our pal Mitzi brings with her loads of experience, and if you need a space to lease she’s the one that will find it for you.
Before she came to our fair berg, Mitzi was an exec in the Windy City where she drove the career services turnaround action plan across all Computer System Institute campuses, successfully launching several improvement programs which increased placement rates. Massey Knakel is hoping for the same turnaround, states Todd Korren, executive managing director.
“We are thrilled that Mitzi has joined our team of excellent leasing professionals and know that she
will create similar success in these Brooklyn markets,” he said.
Standing O is just thrilled to welcome Mitzie into the bosom of our great borough.
Massey Knakal Realty Services [205 Montague St. between Court and Clinton streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 238–6091].
Bedford-Stuyvesant
‘Welcome,’ Pt. II
Real estate is booming in our borough and Rachel Poggi is going to make sure you get the apartment you need in the neighborhood that you want to be in.
Rachel has been tapped to manage the newest office of Aptsandlofts.com in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and will oversee a team of 40 agents, plus see to the daily operations of the company’s expanding presence in Crown Heights, Clinton Hill, and Bushwick.
She comes with a boatload of experience, having been the former director of sales at One Brooklyn Bridge Park for the past two years, in addition to a stint Douglas Elliman realty.
Her arrival is a new lease for the website, said founder and president David Maundrell.
“Rachel has the established track record in managing a Brooklyn sales force that I was looking for when we began the search for this position,” he said. “Her background and expertise in overseeing sales, especially at a time when the sales market was basically frozen in Brooklyn, impressed me a great deal.”
Aptsandlofts.com [306 Malcolm X Blvd. at DeCatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant (718) 412–4794].
Flatbush
Never smelled so sweet
Hooray to Camba Gardens, Phase 1. The affordable housing development was honored by the Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits with the Development of Distinction Award in Florida on Jan. 9.
The award showcases the importance and effectiveness of the low-income housing tax credit, according to Novogradac manager Michael Novocradac.
“The winning developments are shining examples of how the Low Income Housing Tax Credit continues to fuel the creation of affordable rental housing, providing low-income families with an affordable place to call home,” he said.
CAMBA was just as thrilled and hoped that CAMBA Gardens Phase I — which has helped 400 people obtain homes — would serve as a national model for partnership between a hospital, a developer and a non-profit service provide.
“We are delighted to see our innovative financing approach has led to stable, service-enriched, affordable homes,” said Joanne Oplustil, president and chief executive officer.
Standing O offers its own congratulations!
Camba Gardens Phase 1 [690 and 738 Albany Ave. between Clarkson Avenue and Winthrop Street in Flatbush, (718) 715–1758].
Crown Heights
Farewell, Fantasia
Standing O bids adieu to one of the boroughs’ most slithery denizens — Fantasia, the 55 foot Burmese python responsible for delighting thrill seekers and happily coiling along at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum for the past 15 years.
The awesome asp is snaking over the Verrazano Bridge on Feb. 9 to a cozy, warm pad of her own at the Staten Island Zoo.
Standing O hopes Fantasia won’t forget her friends in Brooklyn now that she’s moved on over to the Rock.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum [145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Mark’s Avenue in Crown Heights, (718) 735–4400].