Crain's 2010 Top Entrepreneurs stand out for the perseverance and ingenuity they bring to New York's business community. The entrepreneurs, representing a cross-section of industry, lead fast-growing companies, with average growth rates for the past four years that total more than 100%. (Crain's New York Business, May 31 – June 6, 2010)
NEW YORK, June 7, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teresa Carleo, president of Plant Fantasies, has been named one of six Crain's New York 2010 Top Entrepreneurs. Crain's notes that Plant Fantasies, "from its 3,500-square-foot work space on the West Side… services a who's who of the city's real estate industry, including The Trump Organization, Macklowe Properties and Jack Resnick & Sons." Other Plant Fantasies clients include World-Wide Holdings Corporation; Spitzer Engineering LLC; O'Connor Capital Partners; Manhattan Skyline; and TF Cornerstone.
As Crain's points out, "In a difficult real estate market … property owners are fixated on maintaining appearances to attract tenants"; hence the firm's success.
A landscape and green roof contractor and certified woman-owned business enterprise (WBE) founded by Carleo in 1987, Plant Fantasies has indeed carved its niche in a highly competitive marketplace by adding significant value to the largely upscale properties it serves.
Carleo and the Plant Fantasies team have installed green roofs at such sites as Millennium Tower Residences for Battery Park City Authority (BPCA); the tenant-accessible 250 Hudson Street; and 6 West 48th Street, home to the Asian Cultural Council and the Trust for Mutual Understanding which are affiliated with members of the Rockefeller family.
Plant Fantasies also serves such high-end sites as 15 Central Park West; 505 W. 37th St.; the iconic Manhattan House – a block-long residence with one of the city's largest courtyard gardens; Casa 74; the Milan (named for its Milanesque gardens); the spa-inspired Miraval Living; and the Corinthian. Carleo's firm will soon begin several new projects including the Grace Building Plaza and green roofs for Liberty Luxe and Liberty Green through Milstein Properties for the BPCA.
Carleo also devotes her time and energy to several groups and causes. She was a featured speaker on entrepreneurship at Columbia University's 2010 Women's Business Leadership Conference and has advised the Robin Hood Foundation on landscaping. Plant Fantasies has donated floral arrangements to such organizations as Community Access, Revlon's Breast Cancer Awareness drive, and the New York Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. She is also committed to the power of networking and is active in such organizations as Professional Women in Construction (PWC) National and Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW).
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