Charles Gans biography

Charles Gans serves as Senior Vice President of the Company. Mr. Gans rapidly rose to the position of Executive Vice President at NYCEDC where he began his tenure as a project manager executing transactions, including Essex Crossing, Cornell Tech and Memorial Sloan Kettering's Koch Center for Cancer Care. As Executive Vice President he closed over $3 billion of transactions at NYCEDC while overseeing the implementation and development of numerous projects including the Spofford Live Work Campus in Hunts Point, a former juvenile detention center that will be transformed into a campus containing 700 residential units, 50,000 sf of light industrial space, and open space; the Long Island City waterfront mixed-use redevelopment at 44th Drive and Vernon Blvd, which will contain 1,000 residential units, 500,000 sf of commercial office and light industrial space, a new public school and over an acre of open space; and Caton Flats in Flatbush, a mixed use building with 250 residential units, an expanded and renovated Flatbush Caton market, and incubator space. Prior to joining NYCEDC, Mr. Gans spent six years at Bovis Lend Lease where he served as construction manager for over 1.25 million square feet of ground-up residential development projects and provided preconstruction services across a variety of commercial office, hospitality, senior living, and multifamily projects. Mr. Gans received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University.