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BOROUGH PRESIDENT HONORS GREENPOINT MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN CENTER AT BOROUGH HALL

Photographs by Amelia D’Entrone Pictured (from left to right): Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center outgoing CEO David Sweeny, and outgoing GMDC Chairman of the Board Leslie Winter.

Commends outgoing CEO and Chairman of the Board; hails new CEO.

On April 21st, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz welcomed members of the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center to Borough Hall for a reception. Markowitz and GMDC honored outgoing CEO David Sweeny and Chairman of the Board Leslie Winter, and welcomed new CEO Brian Coleman.

Sweeny had served as GMDC's CEO for the last decade, helping transform the Center into a model for industrial developers in Brooklyn and elsewhere. In the late '80s, local businesses, community organizations, building tenants and elected officials came together to shape a redevelopment plan to convert the property, located at the northern tip of Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, into an arts and industry center. It currently has 72 small manufacturing and artist tenants. GMDC is the only non-profit industrial developer in the city.

"GMDC has been a leader in supporting and reinvigorating Brooklyn's long-standing reputation as an American manufacturing mecca," said Borough President Markowitz. "And today, the future of Brooklyn is being written at GMDC, because you are building a bridge between our great manufacturing history and our future as an American art and culture capital. I sincerely hope that the positive change you have accomplished in Greenpoint will be a model for other neighborhoods in the borough."