s MAN of the YEAR Carlisle Towery steered Jamaica to a new future BY LIAM LA GUERRE lguerre@queenscourier.com/@LiamLaGuerre Many people say Jamaica wouldn’t be the up-and-coming community it is today without Carlisle Towery. Over the course of four decades, Towery has watched over Jamaica as the head of the not-for-profit Greater Jamaica Development Corp (GJDC) and guided its regrowth as an emerging neighborhood. He witnessed the initial economic decline throughout Jamaica as department stores and anchor stores shut their doors and left for brighter pastures in malls across Long Island and elsewhere as his organization planted the seeds of the future Photos courtesy of the Greater Jamaica Development Corp. COURIER SUN SPECIAL SECTION (continued on page 28)
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