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Please join us for our weekly Facebook LIVE program. It's an opportunity for the Chamber to share what we're doing during the COVID-19 pandemic. We'll be joined by guest to discuss how they're organization is providing service and support to the Queens community as we deal with these challenging times.
To watch simply login to Facebook and click on the LIVE feed.
We'll see you at 1 p.m. LIVE
Speakers
Andrew Chung
CEO of Innovo Property Group
Andrew Chung founded Innovo Property Group (“IPG”) in 2015. Prior to starting IPG, Andrew Chung was a Partner at The Carlyle Group in the U.S. Real Estate Fund. He served as head of the New York office for the Real Estate Fund for 10 years. Mr. Chung is currently a member of the Advisory Board for NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. He was also honored by ranking in the New York Observer’s “Power 100: The Most Powerful People in NY Real Estate” in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Mr. Chung graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. in Economics.
Donovan
Richards
Councilmember District 31 at New York City Council
https://council.nyc.gov/district-31/Council Member Donovan Richards Jr., a lifelong resident of Southeast Queens and the Rockaways, was elected to the New York City Council in March 2013.
During the 2014-2017 session, he was appointed to be the chair of the Committee on Environmental Protection, which allowed him to address the decades-old systemic issue of flooding in Southeast Queens. Richards secured more than $1.5 billion to help fill the enormous sewer infrastructure hole in Southeast Queens.
As he entered the second half of his term, Richards was appointed to be the chair of the Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises. This opportunity provided him the chance to be at the center of Mayor de Blasio’s push for affordable housing across the city.
Moving forward as the chair of Zoning and Franchises, he helped negotiate a stronger, more inclusive affordable housing plan and made history when the Council passed the most aggressive affordable housing policy in the nation. Since its passage, Richards worked to usher in rezonings in East Midtown and East New York, and has secured $288 million in investments for his own local rezoning in Far Rockaway.
In January 2018, Richards started his second term by being named Chair of the Committee on Public Safety, which ties back to his initial motivation for getting into politics: losing a childhood friend to gun violence.
As Chairman, he has held oversight hearings on the NYPD’s marijuana enforcement strategies, the Special Victims Division, the Opioid crisis, school safety and their internal discipline system. In addition to his chairmanship, he secured $70 million to fulfill the community’s 40-year dream of a new police precinct in Southeast Queens when Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner O’Neill committed to creating the 116th Precinct in Rosedale.
Richards is also a member of the Committees on Criminal Justice; Environmental Protection; Land Use and Zoning; Public Housing; and Transportation. He sits on the Council’s Leadership team and serves as a Board member for the Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Habitat for Humanity and was appointed to sit on the MTA and DOT’s Better Buses Advisory Group.
