Carey Leaves Top Job at Battery Park City Authority

Cavanaugh takes the helm at the local authority. Also, two New York real estate firms announce international partnerships.

NEW HIRES

Timothy Carey has stepped down as president and CEO of the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority, after six years in those roles, to take a position as COO of the New York Power Authority. James Cavanaugh, formerly the Battery Park City Authority's COO, has taken over as president and CEO.

Vikas Wagh has been named vice president and head of the engineering division at LiRo Group, an engineering, architectural, and construction management firm based in Syosset, N.Y.

Christopher Ling has joined the Prisco Group, an architectural and engineering services firm headquartered in Hopewell, N.J., as director of architecture.

Robert Harwood has been named COO of both Prudential CRES Commercial Real Estate, a real estate services firm based in Medford, N.Y., and its affiliate, Soundview Property Management.

Carrie Knowlton has returned to the New York headquarters of Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design as an associate.

Scott Whitman has been named principal-in-charge of the Thomas Group, a K-12 design and engineering firm based in Ithaca, N.Y.

Jae Chang, Seth Parker, and Ryan Tunstall have joined SDS/Procida and Procida Realty and Construction, a real estate development and construction company based in the Bronx, where they will serve as project coordinators. Mitchell Todd has been hired as the firm's director of sales and marketing.

New Jersey Acting Gov. Richard Codey has appointed Thomas Carver as executive director of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority.

PROMOTIONS

Shelley Wang has been appointed to the newly created position of general manager at W.A.C. Lighting, a designer and manufacturer of specialty lighting founded by Wang's parents and based in Garden City, N.Y.

Albert Bast has been named senior vice president and director of surface transportation in the New York offices of URS Corp., a design and engineering, firm based in San Francisco.

Gustavo Lima has been promoted to director of construction administration at Cannon Design, a planning and design firm based in Buffalo, N.Y. Also, Michael Mistriner has been named a principal.

HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS

James Stewart Polshek, founder of his New York-based namesake architectural firm, has become the first recipient of the George B. Post Award for Excellence in Architecture, given by the City College of New York and the National Arts Club.

Kenneth Gardiner, a partner at Dannible & McKee, an accounting and consulting firm based in Syracuse, N.Y., has earned certification as a construction financial professional.

James Heeren and Michael Speck - environmental consultants at the Parsippany, N.J., office of Dewberry, a civil, >> structural, and construction engineering firm based in Fairfax, Va. - have earned "Cleanup Star" pre-certification from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.