Mintz Levin Attorney Marilyn Newman Appointed to Brookline Economic Advisory Board
11/8/2010
Boston, MA – Marilyn Newman, an attorney from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., has been appointed to the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts' Economic Development Advisory Board. Ms. Newman, who is Special Counsel in the firm's Environmental practice, will serve a three-year term.
The 12 members of the Economic Advisory Board are appointed by the Brookline Board of Selectmen and include residents with diverse development, finance, architectural, regulatory, planning and land use expertise. Board members assist the Selectmen and other Town boards and committees to foster appropriate economic growth and to support the vitality of existing commercial areas within the Town of Brookline.
Ms. Newman’s legal practice focuses on the planning, permitting, financing, and construction of public and private development projects. She also provides environmental counsel to clients regarding regulatory compliance, cleanup, and transactional issues. Ms. Newman has advised clients on numerous transit-oriented and mixed-income residential communities throughout Greater Boston as well as construction and improvement of retail, industrial, recreational and institutional facilities, and transportation and utility infrastructure.
Prior to joining Mintz Levin, Ms. Newman served as chief counsel to the Massachusetts Highway Department and in other senior public sector positions as counsel to the Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, the Massachusetts Office of State Planning, and the Boston Housing Authority. In both government and private practice settings, she has worked extensively with federal, state, and local officials, public interest and citizen groups, and neighborhood residents to resolve design, traffic, wetlands, open space, brownfields, historic preservation, and related issues to facilitate land use and environmental approvals for development projects.
Ms. Newman is a member of Massachusetts NAIOP's Environmental Committee, the Boston Bar Association Environmental Committee, and she has served as an appointed member of the national Transportation Research Board’s Environmental Law Committee.
