David Belt

David Belt
Born David Eric Belt
(1967-06-29) June 29, 1967
Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
Residence Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Alma mater George School
Known for Real estate development
Home town Yardley, Pennsylvania, U.S.

David Eric Belt (born June 29, 1967) is an American-born international real estate developer. He is the founder and managing principal of Macro Sea, New Lab, and DBI Projects.[1] Belt and Macro Sea are in a public-private partnership with the City of New York to contribute to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.[2][3][4][5]

Early life

Belt was born in 1967 in Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up in Yardley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He is the oldest of two children. Belt attended grade school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and later the George School.

Career

Belt moved to San Francisco in the 1980s while on tour with a punk band.[6] He began his construction career in San Francisco working as a laborer. A major fire in the Berkeley Hills presented an opportunity for him to begin taking on larger project management roles with the UMB Corporation. He later met Lee Saylor who hired him and served as a mentor. Soon Belt began running large projects including the New International Terminal at the San Francisco International Airport. In 1999, Belt returned to the East Coast.

DBI Projects

In 2002, Belt formed DBI Construction Consultants. DBI Projects was formed as a sister developing company in 2015, and is acting as construction project manager for the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center,[7] several charter school projects, and recently completed the transformation of St. Ann's Warehouse, an 1860 tobacco warehouse beneath the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO, into a non-profit performing arts institution.[8]

Personal life

Belt lives in Brooklyn, New York.

References

  1. ↑ Fox, Emily Jane. "Inside New Lab, an 84,000-Square-Foot Tech Paradise in Brooklyn". The Hive. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  2. ↑ Mcgeehan, Patrick (2013-05-08). "Brooklyn Navy Yard Is Home to Manufacturing Cooperative". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  3. ↑ Clifford, Catherine. "From Relic to Beacon: Brooklyn Navy Yard Gets New Life as Cutting-Edge Manufacturing Hub". Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  4. ↑ "A Manufacturing Renaissance at the Brooklyn Navy Yard". Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  5. ↑ "Design Brooklyn". Design Brooklyn. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  6. ↑ "From Brooklyn to Berlin: David Belt Dishes on International Ventures". Commercial Observer. 2015-12-09. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  7. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (2015-07-23). "Ground Zero Arts Center to Shrink Further". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
  8. ↑ "The "Home Team" - St Ann's Warehouse". Retrieved 2015-10-01.
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