Mattamy Homes Names Carolyn Cesario New Home Counselor at Circle Cross Ranch in Queen Creek

TEMPE, Ariz. – Mattamy Homes recently named real estate sales executive Carolyn Cesario as new home counselor at Circle Cross Ranch in Queen Creek.

Carolyn Morrison, vice president of operations for Mattamy Homes in the Arizona region, said Cesario has more than 25 years of experience in real estate and new home sales. She has been consistently recognized for outstanding customer commitment throughout her career, Morrison added.

Most recently Cesario was a new home counselor for eight years with a new home builder in the Phoenix region and in 2008 was their only associate whose sales volume ranked her in the top one percent of the nationwide organization for two consecutive months. Cesario received a MAME (Major Achievement in Marketing Excellence) award from the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona for sales in excess of $50,000,000 in 2007.

“We are delighted to welcome such an excellent and experienced new home professional to our Mattamy team,” said Morrison.

Mattamy Homes Arizona Division is building new single-family homes priced from the low $100s in the continuing phase of Circle Cross Ranch. For more information about Mattamy Homes Arizona, please call 480-302-6080 or visit http://www.mattamyhomes.com/.
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For more information contact:

Carolyn Morrison, VP Operations, Mattamy Homes Phoenix, 480-302-6080

About Mattamy Homes: Mattamy Homes, http://www.mattamyhomes.com/, expanded into the U.S. in 2003 and is headquartered in Winter Park, Fla. with divisions in Orlando, Jacksonville, Phoenix, Minneapolis and Charlotte. The homebuilder, the largest and most active in Canada with annual revenues exceeding $1.3 billion, was ranked among the highest of all homebuilders in the greater Toronto and Ottawa areas in a nationwide customer satisfaction survey conducted by J.D. Power Associates.

Randall-Paulson Architects launched or completed 35 major design projects in 2009

ROSWELL - Thirty-five major design projects, including facilities for health care, manufacturing, retail, educational, church organizations and six U.S. Post Office buildings, kept Roswell based Randall-Paulson Architects busy in 2009.

The award-winning planning and design firm launched or completed projects in 2009 that total more than five million square feet of space in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado and Washington according to Michael Randall, Principal at Randall-Paulson Architects.

“We’ve been fortunate. We’ve had a very busy past year and we have a strong list of projects that will start this year,” Randall said.

The firm’s largest projects include the 872,000 square foot Northport Logistics facility in Jacksonville, Fla. for Oakmont Industrial Group; the 780,000 square foot Orgill retail distribution facility in Sikeston, Mo. for ARCO Design-Build; and the 605,000 square foot Interstate Centre II distribution facility in Bryan County, Ga., for TPA Realty.

Randall-Paulson Architects’ church and school facilities---a specialty of the firm---included a large addition to the Fellowship Christian School in Roswell and the Bethany Primitive Baptist Church in Forsyth County.

The firm designed public buildings as well, Randall said, including U.S. Post Office facilities in Bethlehem, Grayson, Villa Rica, Monroe, Guyton, and Braselton, Ga.

“We also make an effort to incorporate “green” design techniques wherever appropriate in our work because it’s the right thing to do for our clients,” said Randall.

Randall-Paulson Architects is a 16-year-old commercial architectural firm that specializes in the design of industrial, office, retail, mixed-use, education, religious, childcare, hospitality facilities and sustainable design.

Visit www.randallpaulson.com.
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For more information contact:
Leslie C. Carruth, AIA, LEED AP, Randall-Paulson Architects 770-650-7558 x135 lcarruth@randallpaulson.com;
Michael B. Randall, AIA, Co-founder/Principal Randall-Paulson Architects 770-650-7558; mrandall@randallpaulson.com

Crossman & Company Associate Courtney Kowalchuk Named Real Estate “Woman of Influence” by Real Estate Florida Magazine

ORLANDO - Courtney Kowalchuk, senior associate at Crossman & Company, the Orlando firm that ranks as one of the largest third-party retail leasing and management firms in the Southeast, was recently named a “Woman of Influence in Florida Real Estate” by Real Estate Florida, a magazine supplement to the national publication Real Estate Forum.

Last year Kowalchuk negotiated over 35 lease agreements valued at more than $15 million.

“Courtney Kowalchuk is one of the brightest young commercial real estate executives in Florida,” said John Crossman, president of Crossman & Company.

“She plays a major role at Crossman & Company and we expect her to play an even bigger role as we expand,” Crossman said.

Kowalchuk is also a new mother. The twin girls, Katie Rayne and Lilly, were born on December 8th, 2009.

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For more information please contact:

John Crossman, CCIM, President, Crossman & Company, 407-581-6218, jcrossman@crossmanco.com

About Crossman & Company: Crossman & Company is one of the largest third-party retail leasing and management companies in Florida with over 16 million square feet under leasing and/or management. Founded in Orlando, Fla. in 1990, Crossman & Company is a full service commercial real estate firm that advises its clients in leasing, management, development and investment sales of retail and office properties and serves clients including Publix Super Markets, Inc., Lake Nona, PREIT, and LaSalle Investment Management. Please visit http://www.crossmanco.com/, or call 407-423-5400 for more information.

Congressional Candidate Paul Partyka: Recent Supreme Court Ruling an Assault on American Values

WINTER SPRINGS - The recent Supreme Court decision regarding corporate spending on political campaigns is a direct assault on American values that flies in the face of common sense and diminishes the rights of every American, said former Winter Springs Mayor Paul Partyka, a commercial real estate executive who is running for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Congress in Florida’s 24th District.

“I don’t believe the ruling will stand,” Partyka said. “I believe we Americans---Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, all of us---will change it. The question is how much damage to the American cause will we endure before we can undo this?”

“It will be harder for individuals to challenge incumbents now since much of the corporate money will go to support them,” Partyka said.

“The ruling overturns decades of precedent and practice. Common sense says there is a difference between the First Amendment rights of people and those of corporations and special interest groups,” Partyka said.

“I agree with what Justice John Paul Stevens said in his dissenting opinion,” Partyka said.

“Corporations are different because they “have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, nor desires. “…They are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.”

Partyka said that if he is elected, he will work on campaign finance reform.

“This ruling cannot stand, it will not stand,” Partyka said. “The people of the United States---Democrats, Republicans, Independents, all of us---will control our government, not the corporations and special interest groups.
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For more information please contact: Paul P. Partyka, 407-341-0805 PaulPartykaforCongress@Gmail.com; Bruce Pronovost, Campaign Manager 407-375-1578 Bapjap@cfl.rr.com

Paid for and approved by the Paul Partyka for Congress Committee

University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program’s Open House at Orlando site on Colonial Drive set for Feb. 18

ORLANDO – The public is invited to attend an open house of the recently expanded University of Central Florida Business Incubator-Orlando Thursday, Feb. 18 at 3218 E. Colonial Drive.
The festivities, which are scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m., will include welcome speeches by Dr. Thomas O’Neal, UCF Associate Vice President for Research and Commercialization and executive director of the Business Incubation Program, and by Tony Ortiz, Orlando City Commissioner for District 2.

The open house also will feature self-guided tours of the 6,400 square-foot facility, as well as finger foods and beverages.

The incubator – a partnership between the City of Orlando and the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program – opened on Colonial Drive nearly two years ago in a 2,400 square foot office across from Fashion Square Mall with plans to expand into a neighboring office with nearly 4,000 additional square feet, according to Site Manager Melissa Wasserman.

The expansion offers dramatically more common space for clients to meet with business associates including a training room equipped with the latest AV technology and work stations with wireless internet access.

“We are very proud of the quality of our new clients and the functionality of our newly expanded space,” Wasserman said. “We are eager to welcome the local community to see how the partnership between UCF and Orlando is growing.”

The center’s established residents – OC Grant Consulting Associates, SeaQuarius, Social Security Advocates and Therigy – recently were joined by Brand Advance, Eginity, Excelsior Communications Services Inc., MTK Sports Training, InBusiness Inc., Learn to Learn, MyDocHub, Perceptive Technologies and VideoProof, some of who recently moved in from other UCF incubator locations.

The Orlando incubator is one of six such facilities in the university’s Business Incubation Program. Others are in East Orange County near UCF, and in Seminole and Lake Counties.
The UCF Business Incubation Program serves nearly 80 full-time client companies and provides a wide range of services, including business mentors, educational classes, affordable office space, as well as access to a receptionist, a site manager, and necessary business equipment like multi-line phones, FAX and high-speed Internet.

For more information please call, 321-281-8384.
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For more information about this release, please contact:
Melissa Wasserman, UCF Business Incubator Orlando Site Manager, 321-281-8384, mwasserm@mail.ucf.edu; Gordon Hogan, Director of Operations, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407-882-1157; bizdev@mail.ucf.edu

About the UCF Incubation Program:
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 130 emerging companies (including nearly 80 current clients) create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 1600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With six facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, The City of Sanford, Lake County, the City of Leesburg, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu.