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Builders League Announces 2009 Elected Officers

01/26/09

  Michael J. Paparone of Paparone Housing Company, Inc. in Mount Laurel has been elected president of the Builders League of South Jersey for 2009. Serving with him in their new roles are Winfield Ziegenfuss of Daniel Gregory Inc. in Mullica Hill as vice president; Mitchell Zbik of Group Ten Builders in Burlington Township as secretary, Jerry Silvi of First Colonial National Bank in Collingswood as treasurer; Nicole Hantman of Countrywide Bank in Marlton as vice president of Associate Affairs; and Peter F. Haran of Lipinski Landscape Irrigation Contractors Inc. in Marlton, as vice president of State Affairs.
  Paparone is the 66th president of the association dating back to 1940 and the sixth president to follow in the footsteps of a father. Paparone’s father Thomas A. Paparone served as the League’s president in 1974. Paparone, a Mt. Laurel resident, also follows his cousin Bruce Paparone of Bruce Paparone Inc., who served as president in 1993.
  Throughout 2009, Paparone will focus on bringing a new normalcy to the housing industry in Southern New Jersey by working with our state’s leaders to promote balanced housing solutions, planning for sensible preservation with environmental protection while having economic growth, promoting regionalization as a key to improving land planning systems, promoting green building affordability and producing jobs that are the key to recovery of our state and local economies.
  “While the whole country has its eyes fixed on the housing industry in hopes that the old economic engine can do its usual job of pulling the economy out of its rut, this time the old rule of the housing industry being the savior may fall short,” Paparone said.
  “We need the to find ways to increase demand, promote regionalization, make green building affordable and keep mortgage rates low to get buyers off the fence. As an industry we have to develop creative ways to help buyers into new homes. Today’s buyers have much smaller households, are more frugal and more energy aware. Many first-time homebuyers need more intimate living quarters. As an industry and as communities we must hit the right balance in our planning if we are to improve our economy.”
 
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left to right: Peter Haran of Lipinski Landscape Irrigation, Mitchell Zbik of Group Ten Builders, Richard VanOsten of Builders League of South Jersey, Nicole Hantman of Countrywide Bank, Jerry Silvi of First Colonial National Bank, Michael Paparone of Paparone Housing Company and Winfield of Ziegenfuss of Daniel Gregory Inc.

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