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Press Release: CMI
December 13, 2005
ORLANDO, FL -- Joel Lazar, president and chief operating officer of Orlando-based CMI, spoke alongside fellow leading
real estate and business experts, including Donald Trump Jr., at the Information Management Network's (IMN) "Symposium
on Financing, Developing & Operating Condo Hotels". The symposium was held Dec. 6-7 at the Mandalay Bay
Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev.
At the conference, Lazar drew on his 20 years of real estate industry experience to explain why condo-hotel projects
often fail. Approximately 1,000 developers, property owners and service providers from the real estate industry
attended the event, held to address current issues of debate in the condo-hotel industry.
Attending and presenting at the event were executives from major industry players such as the American Skiing Company,
Bayrock Group, Canyon Ranch, The Cosmopolitan Hotel & Casino, Dezer Development, Falor Companies, Ian Schrager
Hotels, The Kessler Collection, LaCosta Development Corporation, Lubert Adler, Noble Development, Marcus Hotels
and Shamrock Holdings. In addition, symposium sponsors encompassed more than 35 hotel brands, financiers, law
firms and other service providers, including Carlton Group, Greenberg Traurig, Condo Hotel Center, MC2 Consultants
and Centerpoint.
About Joel Lazar, RRP:
Joel Lazar has spent more than 20 years in timeshare, fractional and second home segments of the resort development
industry. He has served on the American Resort Development Association's (ARDA) Board of Directors and as chairperson
of the ARDA Membership Committee. Lazar also has been interviewed by and quoted in major industry and consumer
publications, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.
As the former corporate vice president of sales and marketing for Transeastern Homes (recognized by Builder Magazine
as the fastest growing homebuilder in the country), Lazar helped increase the company's awareness among its key
markets, and also win numerous awards for its sales and marketing programs. (During his tenure, Transeastern sold
nearly $2 billion in new homes and successfully launched 20 communities by utilizing the priority launch program
he introduced.)
In 2005, Lazar partnered with the principals of The Falcone Group (a privately held, multi-billion-dollar real
estate group) to form CMI. Recognized by the International Real Estate Trade Organization as the 2005 Real Estate
Sales & Marketing Company of the Year, CMI markets its high-performance real estate marketing and sales services
to select real estate developers around the world.
Lazar is an active board member and vice chairman of the Florida Children's Home Society and was recognized as
the organization's Board Member of the Year in 2005.
About CMI:
Headquartered in Orlando, Fla., CMI, LLC is a division of the Falcone Group, a privately owned real estate organization
with $4 billion in assets, giving CMI a unique ability to evaluate and consummate business opportunities with rapid
turnaround. CMI specializes in providing high-velocity, high-performance real estate sales and marketing services
for residential and resort projects on a regional, national and international level with a dedication to maximizing
their clients' profits. For more information about CMI, call (877) 352-4635 or visit www.CMIpower.com.
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For more information, contact: Carla Parks, Gilbert & Manjura Marketing (407) 261-5716 cparks@gilbertmanjura.com