POKO Partners LLC is pleased to announce the purchase of the Belmont-Venezia Portfolio for $18.55 million. The Project Based Section 8 buildings, located at 2431 Belmont Avenue, 2476 Hughes Avenue, and 2404-16 Crotona Avenue, contain 180 apartments and one retail unit.

On July 15, the POKO Pitkin Theater Center received the NYC SBS 2013 Neighborhood Achievement Award for Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse, the second major award for the project. Pictured here accepting the award at Gracie Mansion...

from (l) to (r) are Dan Alger, Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Bank and Margaret Anadu, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Bank, and from POKO Partners, Steve Wissak, Director of Development, Kenneth Olson, Pr3esident & CEO, Terri Belkas, Financial Analysts, Andrea Kretchmer, Managing Director, and Tanner Johnson, Construction Project Manager.

July 2013 - Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Carlo Scissura presents POKO President & CEO Ken Olson with the 2013 Building Brooklyn Award for Historic Preservation and Community Development for POKO’s Pitkin Theater Center.

May 2013 - POKO is proud to announce that the Pitkin Theater Center wins 2013 Brooklyn Building Award for Historic Preservation and Community Development. View Press Release.

March 12, 2013 was a great day in Bridgeport. Joining Ken Olson (r), POKO President & CEO, at our ribbon cutting for our Clinton Commons Apartments project were Yvonne Klein (l), newly appointed Commissioner of the Connecticut’s Department of Housing, and Nicholas Lundgren, Director of Housing and Community Development, DECD .

Clinton Commons

January 10, 2013

POKO’s latest affordable housing development is now leasing,  View Press Release.

POKO Selected by City of Bridgeport for Development

May 10, 2012

POKO Partners will be the fourth proposed developer for the planned Downtown North Village District project, a six-acre parcel spanning six city blocks.
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