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CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE
Carmen Facciolo
NAI Emory Hill
Carmen Facciolo joined Emory Hill as
partner in 1983, just two years after the
full-service fi rm was founded. In 1997,
the fi rm aligned with the NAI Global
network, and today NAI Emory Hill
off ers everything from development
and to construction management and
design-build services to management,
maintenance and brokerage services.
Th e fi rm has executed more than
$1 billion in deals over its 40-year
history, and developed projects like
Little Falls Centre, White Clay Center
and Christiana Meadows. Facciolo
has leaned on prior experience with
Jackson Cross Company and Facciolo
Construction to help advance the fi rm’s
goals.
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Thomas J.
“T.J.” Hanna
Harvey Hanna
& Associates
Th omas “T.J.” Hanna teamed with
partner Th om Harvey III in 1997 to
build Harvey Hanna & Associates from
a boutique real estate development
fi rm into one of the major fi rms
of Delaware. Hanna has overseen
development and management of
more than 6 million square feet of
commercial space in the mid-Atlantic
region and hundreds of millions of
dollars in fi nancing and sales. He was
instrumental in converting the former
GM Boxwood plant into a site that
today boasts one of the largest Amazon
facilities in the country. In 2008,
Hanna also established the Delaware
KIDS Fund, a charitable organization
designed to assist local area kids in
distressed situations.
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Michelle Freeman
Carl M. Freeman Companies
Carl M. Freeman Foundation
Joshua M. Freeman
Foundation
Michelle (DiFebo) Freeman is the
owner and CEO of the Carl M.
Freeman Companies, a real estate
company established in 1947 that
specializes in land acquisition, land
planning, development and the
management of award-winning,
amenity-rich residential communities,
neighborhood shopping centers and
commercial properties. In Delaware,
the fi rm has built the Bayside,
Tidewater Landing and Tower Hill
communities in Sussex County, along
with two golf courses. Freeman is
also president and chair of the Carl
M. Freeman Foundation, which gives
grants in the communities where it
works, and chair of the Joshua M.
Freeman Foundation, which honors
her late husband by providing arts and
arts education.
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E. Thomas Harvey III
Harvey Hanna
& Associates
E. Th omas “Th om” Harvey III had
a long, successful career building a
solid waste hauling and recycling fi rm
when he decided to partner with T.J.
Hanna to form the commercial real
estate development fi rm Harvey Hanna
& Associates in 1997. Since then,
they’ve redeveloped four prominent
business campuses and industrial
parks, expanded into retail centers and
developed a successful hotel affi liate,
TKo Hospitality. Outside of the fi rm,
Harvey is a philanthropist, having
donated $1.3 million to the American
Heart Association to fund more
resources, educate the public, and
operate new programs.
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