Conversations: Bill Wynne
This week's installment of Conversations, the fourth in our new weekly series of in-depth interviews on The Series: Plymouth Rock Studios, will feature Bill Wynne, Executive VP of Planning and Development. As stated in the Conversations episode of The Series, (watch it here) this new interview format gives you, our viewers, the opportunity to submit your questions for our executive team, and then we ask them.
Please post your questions for Bill right here on Hollywood East TV in the discussion below or through our Twitter account (@HollywoodEastTV) via replies or direct messages. All questions must be posted by Thursday morning (10/29). Read Bill's bio from the Team page on Plymouth Rock Studios website:
Next, Bill worked as account manager for Wells Fargo Bank’s largest borrower, Pacific Scene, and later became CFO of the Southern California-based developer. As CFO, Bill helped arrange the financing on over fifty-one master-planned communities and over 15,000 residential units. Pacific Scene was named “Builder of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders for leading California out of the 1982-83 housing recession.
Bill then formed Bison Investments in 1986 and coordinated financing and investments of over $200 million for clients in the Western U.S. This led him to work with Metropolitan Life Insurance and the Harvard Endowment, investors in California’s 5,000-acre Rancho Santa Margarita master-planned community. Rancho Santa Margarita became the state’s 33rd city in 2000 and was fully sold out by 2001. Bill and two partners purchased the management company from Met Life and turned those assets into a 136-acre parcel in Ventura, California that would become Seabridge.
Bill was the lead principal involved in getting the entitlement, design and approval of Seabridge through the multi-layered jurisdictions in the coastal area. The project was the largest waterfront expansion on the West Coast in thirty years and received numerous awards for design and architecture.
Bill continues to maintain involvement in real estate projects in California and Montana and with his son in Moscow, Russia.
Please post your questions for Bill right here on Hollywood East TV in the discussion below or through our Twitter account (@HollywoodEastTV) via replies or direct messages. All questions must be posted by Thursday morning (10/29). Read Bill's bio from the Team page on Plymouth Rock Studios website:
Bill Wynne, Executive VP of Planning and Development
Next, Bill worked as account manager for Wells Fargo Bank’s largest borrower, Pacific Scene, and later became CFO of the Southern California-based developer. As CFO, Bill helped arrange the financing on over fifty-one master-planned communities and over 15,000 residential units. Pacific Scene was named “Builder of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders for leading California out of the 1982-83 housing recession.
Bill then formed Bison Investments in 1986 and coordinated financing and investments of over $200 million for clients in the Western U.S. This led him to work with Metropolitan Life Insurance and the Harvard Endowment, investors in California’s 5,000-acre Rancho Santa Margarita master-planned community. Rancho Santa Margarita became the state’s 33rd city in 2000 and was fully sold out by 2001. Bill and two partners purchased the management company from Met Life and turned those assets into a 136-acre parcel in Ventura, California that would become Seabridge.
Bill was the lead principal involved in getting the entitlement, design and approval of Seabridge through the multi-layered jurisdictions in the coastal area. The project was the largest waterfront expansion on the West Coast in thirty years and received numerous awards for design and architecture.
Bill continues to maintain involvement in real estate projects in California and Montana and with his son in Moscow, Russia.
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Permalink Reply by James Shewell on -
Hi Bill
My question is, what inspires you the most about your role at hollywood east?
Regards
Jim
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Permalink Reply by Howard Paisner on -
What an incredible expansion of the Movie making buisness. Would love to know who is handling the logistics of this massive project. I would like to know if there is a classified or place I could post a listing for my 2bdrm Condo in Quincy, MA with public transportation to Plymouth across the street in Quincy Center. Howard
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Permalink Reply by PlymouthRockConstructorsLLC on -
Mr. Wynne,
Do you envision any additional Plymouth Rock Studio projects integrating into the Town of Plymouth's "Master Plan" beyond 2011? If so could you elaborate? Thank you for your efforts in bringing this tremendous opportunity to our area. Further success in the future!
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Permalink Reply by Lee Pulis on -
Why Go Green?
Hi Bill,
There are obviously plenty of scientific, ethical, and human self-preservation reasons* to Go Green, but the A-team hasn't clearly stated why this is a hallmark initiative of PRS. For convenience I've included some brainstormed possibilities below. Can you tell us which hit home, or alternatively in the interest of brevity, state the main corporate reason for Going Green?
a) It makes bottom line business sense to strive for energy efficiency and sustainable resource supply.
b) Green media production is the new "leap-frog" way of differentiating from established competition.
c) Top producers and celebrity talent/investors are "gung ho" for greenness and will shift business to a green PRS.
d) There is investor funding for green initiatives, and piloting of new green technologies.
e) One or more prime movers on the A-team (what happened to the R-team?) deeply believe we are part of the earth and is/are pouring the "Cool"-Aid. (This seems relatively rare so far in profit-driven business, but evident at PRS: As a residential REALTOR I appreciate your own planned community experience. VP of Innovation Steve Taylor espouses eco-ethic heart and soul and urged me to read his dog-eared copy of The Ecology of Commerce, A Declaration of Sustainability, by Paul Hawken, 1993, before we talked further. I'm a graduate of Presidential Medal and Blue Planet awardee Gene "Acid Rain" Likens' tutelage and when I first met David K. he asked if I knew of another renowned ecological consultant that had just visited PRS by invitation.)
f) PRS believes that being a profitable and efficient business goes hand-in-hand with being a good steward of the environment, plus striving for net positive impact facilitates complex permit processes.
g) Green TV and film production, production guides, environmental topics, and eco-theme media festivals are ascending to mainstream. Ex: Green is Universal Production Guides: http://www.greenisuniversal.com/guide/
h) The California Film Industry is vulnerable but dedicated to keeping film in California... Announcing its first annual green film festival! http://www.californiafilmindustry.com/
i) Wal Mart is doing it.
j) All of the above
k) Some of the above, plus other...
l) PRS has a trained pragmatic ecologist on staff (if not, I'm available).
Whatever the corporate motivation...I'm all for it and hope others are inspired to follow!!!
* Geological and other records indicate that the earth has experienced five mass extinctions when 50-95% of the world's species appear to have become extinct. After each mass extinction, biodiversity eventually returned to equal or higher levels, but each recovery required millions of years. Possible causes include climate change or earth collision with a large asteroid or comet. The last mass extinction took place about 65 million years ago. In the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scientists from around the globe estimated that the current annual rate of species extinction is at least 100 to 1,000 times the background rate of a about 0.0001%, which existed before modern humans appeared some 150,000 years ago. Conservation biologists project that during this century the extinction rate caused by habitat loss, climate change mostly due to global warming, and other human activities will increase to 10,000 times the background rate. According to researchers this rate could result in at least one fourth of the world's current animal and plant species being gone by 2050, and half could vanish by the end of this century. Within just a few human generations, we shall - in the absence of greatly expanded conservation efforts - impoverish the biosphere to an extent that will persist for at least 200,000 human generations or twenty times longer than the period since humans emerged as a species! (Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions , 16th Edition, Scott Spoolman; G. Tyler Miller Jr., 2009)
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