About CWS

Glenn Brill has over eighteen years of experience working with the public and private sectors to maximize the value of their real estate assets and development projects. Mr. Brill's experience includes finance, transaction and development advisory services including strategic planning, market and financial analysis, and the negotiation of development and transaction agreements. His past experience includes work completed for the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the Empire State Development Corporation, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Port Authority of the New York & New Jersey, the City of White Plains, NY and the City of New London, CT.

He has advised the public and private sector on the market and financial feasibility of large-scale mixed-use urban infill projects and master planned communities, and participated in the negotiation of public-private partnership and benefit agreements. This work included the identification of development and investment objectives, community and economic development planning, and the selection of development partners.

Prior to joining CWS Consulting Group, Mr. Brill was acquisitions and development advisor to Cherokee Investment Partners, an institutional private equity fund manager specializing in the acquisition, remediation, and sustainable re-development of impaired real estate. In addition, Mr. Brill was a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young LLP's Real Estate Advisory Service practice in New York City and focused on strategic planning, project feasibility analysis, asset repositioning, and project finance for mixed-use development in support of public and private sector investments.

He is a graduate of the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, a licensed real estate broker in the State of New York and an adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture.

Mr. Litvin, a Certified Economic Community Developer since 1988, has over 30 years experience in his profession.  He has been a faculty member for the University of Oklahoma’s Economic Development Institute and at Virginia Tech’s Economic Development Institute.  Mr. Litvin was also elected by his peers to be President of the Virginia Economic Developer’s Association.

Stuart has represented cities, counties and regional public/private economic development entities.  This has included the Mayor’s Office in New York City and Select Greater Philadelphia, which included an eleven county/three state area.  He has served on three Workforce Development Boards and several Employers’ Advisory Boards.  He was appointed by the Governor of Virginia to the Blue Ridge Economic Development Advisory Council and by the Mayor of New York to the New York City Loft Board.

Mr. Litvin was an early member of the Select Greater Philadelphia team, where he helped to structure the partnership itself and was instrumental in the early success of the organization.  In this role, he was responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with the professional economic developers in the eleven-county region that includes five counties in eastern Pennsylvania, five counties in south New Jersey, and one county in northern Delaware.  He coordinated all requests for information sent to each of the eleven county economic development entities and established a protocol for prospect handling for responses and visitations.

Stuart is a member of the International Economic Development Council, the Southern Economic Development Council, the Urban Land Institute, CoreNet Global, National Association of Industrial & Office Properties, and was a member of the Industrial Asset Management Council.

George has more than 34 years of experience in community planning and urban design, economic development and transportation planning.

George was the Client Manager and Program Manager for the feasibility, design and construction of a new deep water Port in Nova Scotia (Melford International Terminal Inc.) which will serve as a “Hub Port” serving vessels of 12,000+ TEUs creating a new North American Gateway for International shipping and will change container logistics for the region, especially for rail and short sea shipping.

George was the Project Manager for the assessment of the Vermont Western Rail Corridor for the Vermont Agency of Transportation.  This project is providing specific funding and Public Private Partnership (3P) information to the state for implementing several of its key projects including the Omya Spur Project.  The project had a strong Stakeholder process which is aiding the state in implementing its project’s action items.

George currently serves as Chairman of the Transportation Committee for the Boston Society of Civil Engineers (BSCES) the oldest engineering society in the United States. He led separate sessions for American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE/BSCES) on Environmental Streamlining which included panels from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island and the Federal highway Administration (FHWA).

He has instructed courses in NEPA EIS/EA Compliance at Northeastern and Brown Universities and been guest speaker on NEPA topics at the Universities of Maine and Rhode Island.  He is formerly Chief of Planning of the Rhode Island Department of Economic Development, Division of Job Development & Training, and former Chief of Preliminary Engineering and Environment for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and for 23 years was a consultant working in every mode of transportation.

Charles McSwain has over thirty years leadership experience in all aspects of regional economic development including land use planning, real estate development, regional marketing vision development focusing on jobs, site development for communities and site selection for industry.  McSwain has lead strategic initiatives through the detail of program implementation with great success for a variety of clients: Fortune 250 corporations, regional metro chambers of commerce, and public sector assignments.

During the past 20 years Charles McSwain has focused on transportation as a specialty while working in real estate and regional development for CSX Corporation.  Applying leadership for the benefit of shareholders, customers and communities, McSwain located more than $300 million per year in new traffic and millions of new jobs in partnership with other economic development professionals.

In the process McSwain led cutting edge thinking on the evolution of rail use as part of the United States transportation platform with multiple presentations at the Transportation Research Board (a unit of the National Academies), Journal of Commerce, NAIOP, IAMC, National Association of Regional Councils, IEDC and others.  A thought leader in the development of Integrated Logistics Centers, he championed the use of highly efficient rail/truck/marine transport centers at key port and major market locations to increase the use of sustainable transportation while minimizing the impact of freight traffic on urban areas.

McSwain has a BA in Economics and MBA studies at the University of South Florida with additional studies at the Royal Institute of Town and Country Planning, York University, England.  Certified in Corporate Real Estate, Certified in Industrial Real Estate, and is Certified in Industrial Development (1980). As the first member and holding all offices including Chairman in the Industrial Asset Management Council, he demonstrates his drive to create an effective forum for progress in building a better America and creating a competitive balance for industry and employment.