Thank you to our colleagues, partners, and residents for an amazing year and for helping us to continue our mission to build stronger communities for our 40th year in business! Watch our 2024 end-of-year video to see our company highlights and accomplishments throughout the year.
We wish everyone a cheerful holiday season and a prosperous new year!
The bi-weekly Wise Walking Warriors program at our Arverne East development in the Rockaways, where seniors walk along the boardwalk and do calisthenics exercises to stay active and improve their overall health, was recently highlighted by NY1.
In addition to the outdoor exercises, the program teaches the seniors about healthy cooking with nutrition classes in our Arverne East Multipurpose Building, which was completed earlier this year and has become a community hub for a wide variety of local events. The program is part of City Parks Foundations’ free seniors fitness programming.
The Wise Walking Warriors program site was launched in 2022 with support from L+M and funding from local elected officials State Assembly Member Khaleel Anderson and Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers.
The Arverne East Multipurpose Building is part of the overall Arverne East development, which will transform a 116-acre vacant oceanfront site on the Rockaway Peninsula into the first net-zero community in New York City. It will include 1,650 housing units – 80% of which will be affordable.
Watch NY1’s full segment on the Wise Walking Warriors: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/11/10/seniors–queens–nutrition–fitness
L+M recently formalized our company values, and we asked our staff to share some of their stories that they feel exemplify our company values. This submission came from Mitch Britton on our Security team, and we think it’s a stellar example of our key values: Integrity.
“When I was first hired in 2014 I was assigned to our Central Harlem portfolio. C+C Management was the new management company in town and the residents of the buildings had no faith that our mission was to provide the best possible experience for residents at our property. I knew I had to be part of a team that the residents got to know and see on a daily basis. I would make it my duty to get as much “face time” with the residents as possible. I would stand outside of the properties and speak with the residents as they came and went from the building until I knew their names and they knew me. It didn’t take long before they saw the commitment of our company and it gave them a sense that management is always around the property. I had an open door policy.
This gave the residents reassurance that C+C is a hands-on management company and it didn’t take long before the trust kicked in, since they saw the commitment and integrity everyday when I would interact with them. The residents would come up to me and ask questions about getting repairs in their apartment and would also give valuable information that helped me make the place they called home safe. When they would give me information that may have been detrimental to their safety and wellbeing at the building, it helped me make their lives better because of the trust and the integrity they saw in me to get the job done. Even though I spend my time on other sites now, to this day I still get calls from some residents in Central Harlem just to check in with me. And of course before I end the call I ask “Is there anything I can do for you, is everything ok?” and if there is something I can help them with, I will do everything in my power to make it happen. It all starts with INTEGRITY.”