15 Things You Need to Know This Morning

Title: Director of Retail Assets, Bozzuto.
Job: Oversees 2M SF retail management portfolio, advise on operations, retail leasing/merchandising, tenant construction coordination and retail marketing. 
Years on the job: 2.
Company: Retail management portfolio has 2M SF in 80 mixed-use properties in Chicago, Boston, NY metro, Philly, Baltimore, DC and NoVa; over 2,000 employees. 
Memorable project: Rebirth and re-merchandising of Belvedere Square with Struever Bros Eccles & Rouse–110k SF mixed-use project/gourmet market in North Baltimore that had fallen on hard times in the 1990s and then became popular in the 2000s because of great retail and a vibrant public space with concerts and special events. 
Current project: Monroe Street Market in Brookland/Edgewood–mixed-use project will include 550 apartment homes, an Arts Walk with 30 working artist studios, restaurants, cafes and shops. 
CRE career: Special events coordinator in Rouse Co marketing department at Harborplace in Baltimore. Worked with city planning events at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. 
Grew up: Lutherville, Md.
Current home: Parkton, Md.
Why DC: Jobs with Bozzuto and Federal Realty.
School: James Madison University. 
First job: Cutting lawns and landscaping from age 12. 
Job in another life: Baltimore mayor or an NFL quarterback.
Daily habit: Work out every morning at Under Armour Performance Center. 
Favorite app: Tunein Radio (to listen to WXJM Radio at JMU).
Favorite movie: A Few Good Men.
Favorite restaurant: Thames Street Oyster House.
Favorite band and song: The Ravyns–“Raised on the Radio”.
Favorite vacation spot: Bethany Beach.
Guilty pleasure: Berger Cookies.
Bucket list: Trip to Italy.
Family: Married 22 years to Hope; son (17) and black lab and cat. 
Hobbies: Competitive Dragon boat racing and volunteer work on several boards. 
Startling fact: Started record company with two partners after college–represented five artists. Also launched WXJM at JMU–school’s first student-run FM radio station that’s still on the air 25 years later.