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Chester, Jeffrey A.
Posted By GSH LLP On August 2, 2011 @ 8:40 pm
Jeffrey A. Chester has more than 25 years of experience counseling and assisting corporate and real estate clients. His clientele includes state agencies and authorities, Fortune 500 Companies, locally prominent real estate development companies, as well as smaller closely held businesses. Mr. Chester has also served as counsel to several not-for-profits.
Mr. Chester handles regulatory agency matters (zoning issues and permits, tax abatements), transactional work (real estate sales, purchases, leases, business organization agreements, and asset purchases and sales), and provides general business counsel and advice. Mr. Chester has a broad range of experience in real estate development, land use, zoning, and related environmental issues, representing public entities, prominent retail chains and local developers on these types of matters.
Current and recent projects include: representing a local development corporation on an application for multiple variances to build a 200,000 sq. ft. mixed use project (affordable housing /community facility); advising a state agency on a mortgage loan work-out of over $75 million for two 350 unit residential complexes; the rezoning of a six acre industrial site to allow mixed use development, including a 1,650 seat high school facility (housing four separate high schools) and two residential apartment buildings with ground floor commercial space; represented a New York State public authority in the sale of a hotel and conference center to the lessee pursuant to a purchase option; the subdivision and sale of a multiple office floor condominium in lower Manhattan to the City of New York ; and the sale of two industrial buildings on Long Island on behalf of a state public authority.
Mr. Chester was selected for inclusion on the 2014 and 2015 New York Super Lawyers ® list, with recognition granted to fewer than 5% of attorneys in the state. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations.
Mr. Chester is a founding and recent member of the City Bar Association’s Zoning and Land Use Committee and acts as General Counsel for the New York State Restaurant Association. He has been a contributing writer for Real Estate Weekly and New York Construction News. He edits and authors a blog on zoning and real estate issues in New York. Mr. Chester is also an experienced speaker, including as a moderator and panelist, “Zoning and Land Use” seminar, Lorman Educational Services (2007, 2008) and as a panelist “Recent developments in zoning, land use and building controls”, Law Seminars International (2010).
Mr. Chester earned a B.A. at Boston University and his J.D. at Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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