Name: George Crawford
Title: Principal
Company Name: Green Partners
Year Founded: 2010
Years with Company: 5 (since inception)
Years in real estate industry: 35
Q: The approximate number of years you have been a subscriber and/or how the NYREJ has been a benefit to you and/or your business:
A: I have been writing monthly contributing articles for the Green Buildings Section of the New York Real Estate Journal for approximately two years. It has been a wonderful opportunity to share "green" issues and topics with the New York Real Estate community as well as to benefit personally from the discipline of meeting monthly deadlines as well as educational side of learning more about "green" in order write articles of interest which contain informative information.
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Formal Legislative Role
• Limited direct lawmaking power: The NYC Council is the primary
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