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CJ Follini is an real estateentrepreneur and film producer. A native New Yorker, he and his family currently reside in New York City. Follini has a Bachelor’s Degree from Tufts University and an Economics Degree from the London School of Economics. Among Follini’s most notable projects are his roles as executive vice president of Shooting Gallery, CEO for Gun For Hire Production Centers, and founder of Noyack Medical Partners. Follini has worked with real estate across the board, from industrial, commercial, land development, film studio, medical office and senior housing.


Career Highlights

1994 Developed a 400 acre site with Rockefeller Group Properties for the expansion of the International Trade Center in Mount Olive, New Jersey.

1997 – 2000 President of the Gun For Hire Production Centers, media post-production facility for the film industry in New York. Conceived, designed and renovated 400,000+ square feet of digital media centers in New York, Miami, Vancouver, Toronto and Los Angeles. His New York development won the 1998 Crain’s Magazine Small Business Award. [1]

2000 Developed a 12-acre mixed-use waterfront property in Queens, New York. Bought for $9,000,000, the property was sold three years later to a developer for $27,500,000.

2002 Formed Noyack Medical Partners[2], LLC for health care real estate. In a short time he has accumulated a $100MM+ portfolio exceeding return estimates for its investors.[3]

2005 Formed North Street Community to develop 23 acre former St. Agnes Hospital Campus in White Plains, New York purchased at a foreclosure auction for $22,000,000. Within three years, Follini and his partners received entitlements for 730,000 square foot age-restricted Active Adult and Assisted Living Campus as well as medical offices. Net revenue for the mixed use development is on schedule to exceed $150,000,000., North Street Community partnership also consists of Andrew Greene, a White Plains lawyer and three New York area residential developers: Alfred Caiola, Benny Caiola and Steve Rosenthal.[4][5]


Producer credits

In 2000, Follini produced the short film Bullet in the Brain, winner of ten festival awards including the first online Hypnotic/Universal Million Dollar Film. He also produced Someday, a music video for Irish pop band "Tellulah Crash," and a PSA for the R.E.A.C.H. Foundation, an organization that helps children with life-threatening diseases and children in low-income school districts. Co-producer for documentary "Burning the Future: Coal in America"[6] story of mountaintop removal mining and its disastrous effects on the environment.[7]


Honors

Winner of 1998 Crains Small Business Award for Gun For Hire Digital Media Centers
Winner of 2001 Universal Studios/Hypnotic Film Award for "Bullet In The Brain"


References

  1. ^ TAKE 2: FILM FIRM EXPANDS IN VILLAGE; GUN FOR HIRE LEASES MORE SPACE AS DEMAND GROWS FASTER THAN EXPECTED. Crain's New York Business; January 4, 1999; CROGHAN, LORE [1]
  2. ^ http://www.noyackmedical.com/
  3. ^ http://rejournal.com/ny/sections/news/NYNews.aspx?newsID=19697
  4. ^ IN BUSINESS; New Life for Former Hospital Site; December 19, 2004 [2] [3]
  5. ^ Placing buyers in control Westchester County Business Journal, Nov 21, 2005; [4]
  6. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065120/
  7. ^ Burning the Future: Coal in America. Daily Variety ; March 4, 2008, Scheib, Ronnie

Noyack Medical Partners [5]
CJ Follini on IMDB [6]