Dr. Camelia Tepelus of the Morris Park Business Improvement District

In honor of Women’s History Thirty day period, News 12 is honoring Dr. Camelia Tepelus, the govt director of the Morris Park Business Advancement District who has led her group to unparalleled good results for the duration of the pandemic.

Her unstoppable strength and more substantial than existence presence are more than just infectious. These attributes make Dr. Camelia Tepelus a resilient leader of the Morris Park Business Enhancement District.

Not only did couple corporations close, but 16 new organizations opened from July 2020 to July 2021 as vacancy prices across the rest of the town plummeted. Morris Park is flourishing, not just surviving thanks to Tepelus’ leadership.

“Each individual working day is a new journey, and each day is an possibility to transfer a grain, yet another grain of sand to incline that harmony towards action,” Tepelus suggests.

Her boots on the floor strategy to reworking the neighborhood is all about producing guaranteed business entrepreneurs have what they will need. From handing out masks and COVID-19 data to getaway lights, she needs them to know the BID is there for them.

“We make a big difference in the local community. We make fantastic things for the group, we make activities, we enhance infrastructure, we clean up the streets.”

Founded in 2018, Tepelus is the first government director of the BID. She grew up in Romania and has lived in 5 nations, but claims she’s very pleased to make a distinction in the borough she calls house.

She was acknowledged as a power lady of the Bronx and as a woman of difference by the New York Point out Senate celebrating her above 20 many years of non-earnings operate and commitment to Morris Park, primarily for the duration of the pandemic.

Her quest to clean up up the corridor looks to under no circumstances prevent. Next, she claims she desires the wooden phone poles along Morris Park Avenue changed.