Muss Development honored by NAACP Brooklyn Chapter

In a festive affair at the Prospect Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, Joshua Muss of Muss Development accepted the "Leadership in Commerce and Industry" award from Karin Boykin-Towns, the president of NAACP Brooklyn Chapter. Muss was cited as a strong financial sponsor of the chapter, as well as for his firm's extremely successful MWBE (Minority Women Business Enterprise) program during expansion of the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. Boykin-Towns pointed out that MWBE employment at the Marriott hit 35 percent of overall employment at the project with over $15 million worth of business conducted with MWBE firms during construction of the hotel's expansion tower, which brought the New York Marriott Brooklyn's total room count to 667. In remarks to the assembled audience, which included many luminaries such as NAACP leader and trailblazer Dr. Hazel Dukes, Brooklyn Borough president Marty Markowitz, Senate Majority Conference leader John Sampson, NYC comptroller John Liu and Assemblyman Darryl Towns, Muss stated that it was both "good policy and good business" to work closely on MWBE programs. Muss further remarked on his good fortune to be in a position to participate in the event and the good company he was in with other event honorees, such as Radio Soleil D' Haiti, Con Edison (accepted by Fran Resheske), and Fulton Street business owner Betty Long, among others.