Kelly to lead Coney Island board

Real Estate Weekly, May 2, 2007

Coney Island Development Corporation (CIDC) announced that Lynn B. Kelly has been selected to serve as president, the organization's first official employee.

Kelly will manage the day-to-day activities of CIDC and will oversee the implementation of the City's Strategic Plan for Coney Island and the management and allocation of approximately $111 million in capital funding associated with the plan.

The Strategic Plan provides a roadmap for Coney Island's development into a year-round entertainment district with a strengthened residential community.

Kelly is currently vice president for special projects at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). She first joined NYCEDC in 2001 and has managed a portfolio of over 20 strategic planning, commercial development projects and land sales in Brooklyn and Staten Island.

Earlier, Kelly spent five years as at the Art Commission of the City of New York, a mayoral design review agency that was responsible for reviewing and approving works of art, architecture and landscape architecture in New York City.

Kelly is a graduate of New York University's Wagner School of Public Service and New York University's College of Arts and Science.

"It is a privilege to help lead the Bloomberg Administrations efforts to revitalize this legendary New York neighborhood," said Kelly.