Obituary: Gerard Neumann, 83, Was NYC Marine Contractor CEO, Regional Industry Leader

Gerard A. Neumann Jr.,
83, a former U.S. Navy Seabee officer who grew to become, at age 38, CEO of
family- owned New York Metropolis-based marine and sewer contractor Spearin,
Preston & Burrows, died April 5, stated a household obituary. He additionally was
president and labor relations director of the Common Contractors Affiliation of New York who negotiated union contracts and helped mediate
many labor disputes, and is a former president of trade professionals group The Moles and an govt committee member of the New
York Constructing Congress. 

Spearin,
Preston & Burrows grew to become the marine building
division of Massachusetts contractor Trendy Continental in 2001, which itself
was merged right into a division of Quincy, Mass., contractor Jay Cashman Inc.
in 2004. Neumann retired from the corporate in 2007 and was an unbiased knowledgeable witness guide. He additionally briefly labored for Kiewit, says his son Mark, who’s the corporate’s New Jersey-based infrastructure east industrial director.

Neumann’s first challenge for Spearin,
Preston & Burrows was as an assistant superintendent for a cable laying
challenge at Cook dinner Inlet in Anchorage, Alaska, says the household obituary. He additionally managed agency building of main marine tasks in New York Metropolis and elsewhere, together with Pier 40, which was constructed within the Nineteen Sixties as a cruise port and have become a waterfront park within the late Nineteen Nineties, Battery Park Ferry
Terminal and the previous Wall Road heliport, recently renamed as Downtown Skyport because it undergoes a serious improve to change into a multi-modal aviation hub.

Neumann endowed a Seabee scholarship in 1972 and was additionally a trustee of the School of New Rochelle.

The household requests that donations in Neumann’s reminiscence be made to Parkinson’s analysis by means of the Michael J. Fox Basis, https://tribute.michaeljfox.org/tribute-page.php?id=3163