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CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE
Chris Buccini
Buccini/Pollin Group
Lifelong Delawarean Chris Buccini, along with his brother Rob and business partner Dave Pollin, has
left his mark through billions of
dollars in developments, primarily
in his hometown of Wilmington.
As leader of the firm’s commercial management affiliate, BPG Real
Estate Services, Buccini has overseen major renovations of its downtown office buildings and rolled out a new redevelopment plan for its Market West campus, including the former Brandywine, Nemours and DuPont buildings. He also has been overseeing the redevelopment of The Concord into a mixed-use campus in Wilmington’s Brandywine Hundred suburbs.
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Rob Buccini
Buccini/Pollin Group
Since co-founding Buccini/Pollin Group with his brother Chris and business partner Dave Pollin, Rob Buccini has grown the company to over $6 billion in transactions and ownership of 6 million square feet of office and retail space, over 10,000 hotel rooms, 3,500 apartments
and four live entertainment
venues. He leads BPG’s residential, commercial, retail, parking, sports and entertainment development activities, including building the Chase Fieldhouse in Wilmington. More recently, he’s completed Crosby Hill, the first new apartment building built in Wilmington in many years, and announced plans for two more downtown complexes.
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Louis Capano III
Capano Management
As a third-generation real estate developer, Louis Capano III is well- versed in building in the First State. His family-owned and family-led Capano Management offers a full range of services from real estate investments to asset acquisition, management
to construction and sales/leasing to mortgage origination. With 3 million square feet of office and retail assets under management and more than 8,000 multifamily units developed or under construction, Capano has built one of the largest development firms
in Delaware with projects like The
Falls and The Reserve at South Ridge. Outside the firm, his family’s charitable foundation has also donated more than $6 million to local causes.
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Ed Capodanno
Associated Builders and Contractors, Delaware Chapter
Ed Capodanno has been advocating
for Delaware’s contractors for 30
years, starting as president of the Delaware Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors, a nonprofit trade association that represents commercial and industrial merit
shop contractors, in 1993. That role includes lobbying state lawmakers on changes beneficial to the construction industry and working with school districts to enhance trade education
of future workers. That experience has led him to be tapped for numerous appointments to state task forces. Outside of ABC, Capodanno has earned service awards from the YMCA, Lions Club and Special Olympics.
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