NEW YORK CITY—Michael Kelly has been appointed COO and EVP of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. The former architect has served as the executive director of the Housing Authority of New Orleans, the Washington D.C. Housing Authority and the Philadelphia Housing Authority. He also was the general manager of the New York City Housing Authority.
Kelly will oversee the development's operations and property management team, which manages the yard's energy infrastructure, utilities and building maintenance.
He joined the Brooklyn Navy Yard earlier this month during the industrial park's $2.5 billion expansion, the largest, most comprehensive campaign to revitalize the area as a manufacturing center, since World War II. It plans to expand to 30,000 jobs and add five million square feet of new manufacturing space in the coming years.
“BNYDC continues to demonstrate its ability to fulfill its mission of creating middle-class jobs for New Yorkers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,” say Brooklyn Navy Development Corporation president and CEO David Ehrenberg. “Its success is based on the experience, capabilities and devotion of its team, which now includes Michael Kelly. His decades of experience will greatly support BNYDC in the management of the 300-acre campus.”
The Brooklyn Nayy Yard released a statement underscoring Kelly's 30 years of experience in managing large scale real estate assets. Despite the recent negative attention the NYCHA has received over its property conditions, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's declaring a state of emergency, the Yard praised Kelly's “raising property management and services standards at public assets, both distressed and in good financial standing.”
Kelly has demonstrated a commitment to public housing, starting his career as an architect for the San Francisco Housing Authority in 1983. In 1994, as the acting executive director, he was the first registered architect to head a large public housing authority in the US.
Kelly holds a master's degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley; a master's of arts education from San Francisco State University; and a bachelor's degree in architecture from Princeton University. His professional distinctions include receiving the Rose Center for Public Leadership's Rose Fellowship Study Appreciation Award, the Homebuilders Association of Philadelphia's Exceptional Leadership Award and the President's Volunteer Service Award. In 2010, he received the E. Justin Herman Leadership Award, the highest honor given by the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials.
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Betsy Kim
Betsy Kim was the bureau chief, East Coast, and New York City reporter for Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. As a lawyer and journalist, Betsy has worked as the director of editorial and content for LexisNexis Lawyers.com, a TV/multi-media journalist for NBC and CBS affiliated TV stations in the Midwest, and an associate producer at Court TV.
