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Michael X. McBride maintains an extensive practice representing owners, developers, contractors and vendors in all aspects of the real estate development and construction business. Among his more notable projects are the large scale development of data centers, industrial tract and office developments, residential apartment and condominium projects and shopping center developments.
Mr. McBride’s construction projects include the Tropicana, Resorts International and The Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey; Gateway 3 and 4 in Newark, New Jersey; Prudential Centers 1 and 2 in Chicago, Illinois; power plants in India and China; a $250 million polypropylene plant in Linden, New Jersey; Dow Jones' headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey; large residential projects for Toll Brothers; and a large shopping center development in the Economic Trade Zone in Mount Olive, New Jersey. Mr. McBride has spoken at the Annual Construction Superconference
in San Francisco, California in Fall 2005 and 2006.
In addition, Mr. McBride successfully negotiated the merger of McBride Enterprises, Hudson Bay, a private real estate fund capitalized by Crescent Real Estate Equities (a REIT trading on the NYSE) and Penn Square Properties, Inc. into an entity called Keystone Property Trust, a REIT trading on the NYSE which was sold to Prologis in 2004.
Prior to
joining Connell Foley, Mr. McBride served as
Law Clerk to H.C. Meanor, United States
District Judge, District of New Jersey
(1978-1979). He is a Member of the Board of
Directors of Covenant House New Jersey
(1991-present) and a former Chairman of its
Board of Directors (1991-2002). Mr. McBride
also remains very involved with Georgetown
University where he is serving as a Member
of its Board of Regents (2004-present) and
served as a Member of the Board of Directors
for its College of Arts & Sciences
(2001-2003). In addition, Mr. McBride is a
Member of the Board of Directors of McBride
Enterprises and The Frank McBride Company,
Inc. and a Member of the Board of Trustees
of the Delbarton School (2003-present).
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