 Ted Zangari is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross, a commercial law firm with New Jersey offices in Newark and Princeton. He serves on the Firm’s Management and Executive Committees.
Mr. Zangari’s law practice is multipronged. He co-chairs the Firm’s Redevelopment Law Practice Group, captaining a team of Sills Cummis & Gross attorneys on large-scale mixed use projects including land assemblage, redeveloper designations and agreements, tax increment financing and other public incentives, environmental remediation, commercial condominiumization and construction contracts.
He also routinely handles complex business transactions with an emphasis on commercial leasing, acquisition and financing transactions for owners, lenders and tenants of distribution facilities, office buildings and shopping centers across the country.
In addition, Mr. Zangari chairs the Firm’s Public Policy and Governmental Affairs Practice Group, assisting clients in the ways that government and business intersect on a broad range of legislative and regulatory matters. In a recent politickernj.com ranking of “politically influential law firms,” the Firm was ranked number one among Am Law 200 law firms in New Jersey, and Mr. Zangari was described as someone who is “well liked by insiders on both sides of the aisle.”
Mr. Zangari was one of twelve executives recently identified by NJBiz magazine as “Movers & Shakers” in New Jersey. He has also been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, New Jersey Super Lawyers and Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Mr. Zangari currently serves as Eastern Division Government Relations Chair for the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is also active on the legislative affairs committee of NJ-NAIOP and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Newark Alliance. In the aftermath of then-Governor McGreevey’s decision to eliminate funding for the BEIP business incentive program, Mr. Zangari was appointed to co-chair with the then-Commerce Secretary a study commission on business attraction and expansion incentives. More recently, he was appointed by Governor Corzine to the newly formed state Real Estate Advisory Board.
In September 2007 – one month before the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its all-time high – Mr. Zangari convened the founding meeting of the Smart Growth Economic Development Coalition to develop a “stimulus package” of legislation addressing what Mr. Zangari described as the “twin crises” of a near-term demand problem caused by the alarming out-migration of jobs and residents as well as a longer-term supply problem of housing future residents and businesses in the wake of New Jersey becoming the first fully built-out state in the nation. Nearly two years later, the Coalition, which now includes 26 statewide trade associations, has seen six of its legislative initiatives become law, and the Coalition is actively lobbying for passage of the remaining bills in its stimulus package. Mr. Zangari recently authored a white paper, Economic Development Recovery Strategy for New Jersey, to the Christie/Guadagno Administration and the 214th Legislature on behalf of the Coalition. |
Board of Directors, New Jersey Chamber of Commerce
Founder, Smart Growth Economic Development Coalition
Eastern Division Government Relations Chair, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
Member, Governor’s Real Estate Advisory Board
Trustee, Newark Alliance
Trustee, The New Jersey Organization for a Better State (NEW JOBS)
Co-Founder and Member of Executive Committee, NJ/Italy Trade Council
Member, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
Member, CoreNet
Member, Newark Real Estate Board
Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, American Bar Association and New Jersey State Bar Association
Member, Real Estate New Jersey Magazine Editorial Advisory Board
Member, Capitol Insights Panel of Experts |
Ted Zangari