MORGANVILLE- Jeffrey C. Brown, former vice president of operations for a major metropolitan area beverage distributor, has served real estate and industry over the last 36 years as owner, consultant and licensed broker.
Brown for the last 15 years has supervised the day-to-day operations for The Beverage Works distributor. His responsibilities include lease negotiations and maintenance/operations for all six of their warehouse and office locations.
Brown was a licensed real estate broker in Red Hook Brooklyn, New York, since 1983 until joining the distributor in 2000. He converted the neighborhood from marine-related businesses, into a neighborhood of small contractors, large distributors and many federal and city government agencies. For ten years prior, he served the New York metropolitan area Snapple distributor, Mr. Natural Inc. Brown secured over 550,000 square feet of industrial and office space in five locations for Mr. Natural as their distribution operation grew after Snapple went public.
For the four years prior to opening his real estate agency, Brown and Sons Real estate, Brown was the director of Marketing and Real Estate for Big Yellow Mini-Storage Inc., in Scarsdale, New York. Big Yellow was the first self-storage operation in the metropolitan area. Brown’s responsibilities included real estate evaluations, new acquisitions, feasibility studies, site criteria, project development and financing. He was instrumental in founding the New York State Self-Service Storage Association and leading the fight against New York charging occupancy tax for storage rooms — a ban which still stands today.
Brown holds an MBA degree with an emphasis on financing from New York University and has post-graduate degrees in investment analysis, urban planning, construction and development from the NYU School of Continuing Education Diploma Program. Brown is a certified notary public in New Jersey. He is highly skilled when it comes to investment analysis concerning real estate ownership and rent versus buy analysis. He is married, has one son, and lives in Monmouth County.