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Mort Goldfein has extensive experience in the areas of commercial real estate development and community investment. As Director of Community Investment at New Community Corporation in Newark, NJ, the nation's largest non-profit community development entity, he has been instrumental in launching community-based financial institutions pertaining to low-income housing opportunity funds, low-income housing tax credits, as well as a for-profit community lending entity which makes loans to job-generating inner-city businesses. Known as New Community Development Loan Corp., this "multi-bank CDC" has attracted almost a million dollars in bank investment and made loans totaling $250,000 that have generated more than 30 new jobs. He also oversees NCC's credit union which has 1500 members and $3.5 million in assets. As Senior V.P., Law and Public Affairs for Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., he was responsible for legal, regulatory, civic, and philanthropic activities. He also has had extensive experience with legal matters in the area of environmental laws regarding land use approvals as well as providing legal counsel for the N.J. Department of Law & Public Safety and served as an assistant attorney general for the state. A former president of the NJ chapter of the National Association of Industrial & Office Parks, Mr. Goldfein was awarded NAIOP's "Personal Achievement Award" in 1990.