Monday, September 23, 2019

September 2019







2019 BANNJ President John Cioletti
President's Message
Many thanks to BANNJ Chairman of the Board Glen Lumia of Creative Design Construction and his wife, Donna, for hosting Texas Hold Em Night again this year at their beautiful home on September 20th!  
It was a fantastic evening,  and thanks to all of the attendees, sponsors and volunteers who helped to make the event a great success, including Charles Baldanza of Baldanza Design + Build, Jared Lans, Esq., Greg Perlmutter, our caller, Richard, David and Brandon Gaynor of Middleton & Company and all of the dealers, and our Event Sponsor: Dykes Lumber Company; Dinner Sponsors: Integrated Business Systems, JeldWen and FramlessOnlyLLC; Beer/Beverage Sponsors: Andersen Corporation, LP Building Solutions and Lightning Electric and Game Table Sponsors: Budd Built-in Vacuum, ACI Electrical, Forcellati Brothers, 3N Services,  Pizzi Funeral Home, Eagle Alarm & Audio and Dream Builders. 



See photos from this and all of our events at https://www.bannj.org/image-gallery/.  

Our exciting fall calendar of events continues with two of our annual favorites. Join us on Thursday, October 17th at Reno’s Appliance for the Annual Pre-Holiday Networking Party.  Gain new business contacts at the networking event of the year featuring great food, live music, fantastic prizes and much, much more!  On November 21st , we are having our Annual Business Showcase & Beefsteak at The Brownstone.  Don’t miss this opportunity to have one-on-one face time with builders and building industry professionals to display your products and services and enjoy the Brownstone’s world-famous Beefsteak.  I look forward to seeing many of our members there!
See below and our website at https://members.bannj.org/events for more information and to register for all of our upcoming events.



Associate Spotlight

Congratulations to our own Victoria Reczkowski of Ferguson Enterprises on being featured earlier this month in the NJBA Weekender Associate Spotlight.  Thank you for all that you for BANNJ and for the building industry.  Please read below for all of Vicki’s many accomplishments.





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Longtime associate member Bernard “Bud” Schwartz , owner of Budd Built-in Vacuum Cleaners, passed away at the age of 93.  He joined the association on May 10, 1962 and was an active associate member and great supporter of the industry.  Our heartfelt condolences to his son, BANNJ member David Schwartz, the entire Schwartz family and to everyone at Budd Vacuum.





Builder:
Green Owl Group
Lawrence Lindner
20 Riverview Avenue
Lodi, NJ 07644
845-416-4833
ll@gognj.com






Creative Design Construction and Remodeling is a Design-Build firm offering our clients a time and money savings "one-stop" shopping advantage" complete with our own award-winning in-house design team, cabinet department and showroom.  Creative Design Cabinet Solutions is the retail division of Creative Design Construction and Remodeling.  We offer stock, semi-custom and full-custom cabinetry for do-it-yourselfers, builders, architects, and interior designers.  We encourage the use of our cabinet installation team, or we can simply just deliver the cabinets to your location.





 

 

Housing Market Index (HMI) 

Starts and Permits 

Framing Lumber Prices 

Weekly Mortgage Rates 15 and 30 Year

Real Estate’s Market Value Shows Minimal Growth in Q2 2019

Labor Shortage

Thursday, October 17th~Reno’s Annual Industry Networking Party.  The best networking event of the year!  Enjoy Reno’s outstanding hospitality with a fall atmosphere this year and get ready to meet and greet hundreds of  fellow industry partners from many organizations while you enjoy delicious hors’ d oeuvres, live music and unbelievable prizes.   

Thursday, November 21st~ Annual Business Showcase & Beefsteak at The Brownstone.  Kick off the holiday season at the must-attend mini trade show in Northern NJ!  Reserve your tabletop early to ensure you spot to display your company products and services to over 100 Northern NJ building industry professionals.  Invite your colleagues, customers and friends to join you for The Brownstone’s famous Beefsteak dinner and participate in the world-famous Bread Building Contest to win for the charity of your choice. 

*Information and Registration for all events can be found on our website at


Coming in 2020-76th Annual Installation & Awards Dinner at The Graycliff on Thursday, January 30th.