Most of the time, which is good about working with Paul, we’ve been with each other for so long, we don’t have to tell each other what to go do. Paul Bedard and Jimmy Riffle - Photo courtesy of Animal Planet From a viewer’s perspective, it looks like you don’t have much fear. But we were able to finally get it going just recently. We’ve been trying to do what we’ve been doing for the last seven to eight years. Him and I always talked about doing something, and we hit it off pretty quickly, Paul and I. When I was at Native America, I met Paul through there. When did it click for you to turn this fascination into an actual business? Animals have been a passion of my life since I can’t remember, especially alligators. And when I first started, I didn’t expect it to escalate. … I stayed there from 11 years old to about 24, 25 years old. How did this love and fascination of working with alligators begin?Īctually I started volunteering at a place called the Native Village. Us going out, rescuing alligators, and a lot of action, a lot of mud, and getting dirty and wet, and very dangerous situations. What should audience members expect from the upcoming season? Click here for Part I, a talk with Paul Bedard. Questions and answers have been slightly edited. Here, in Hollywood Soapbox’s second and final exclusive talk with the Gator Boys, Riffle talks about his toughest alligator case of all time and the education needed to allay the public’s fears. When most people head to the office for another 9-to-5 slog, Riffle and Bedard head into tricky situations with large-toothed animals that turn off most people. Together, the gator team helps local residents with pesky reptilians and also dispels any misconceptions about our scaled friends (or enemies?). In early October, Mitchell Hersh, CEO of Mack-Cali, told the Young Mens/Womens Real Estate Association that he was considering the possibility of beginning Plaza 4 to go with sister building Plaza 5.Jimmy Riffle of ‘Gator Boys’ - Photo courtesy of Animal PlanetĪnimal Planet’s Gator Boys follows the alligator rescue efforts of Jimmy Riffle and his business partner Paul Bedard. That 34-story Mack-Cali-owned building is under construction at Harborside in Jersey City and is expected to be completed in the middle of next year. He did not return calls for comment and a Mack-Cali spokesperson declined comment. Studley broker Mark Jaccom is negotiating a lease for 210,000 square feet at Plaza 5, several sources told The Post. 11 to get its operations up and running.īut the firm is now making long-term plans. for 135,427 square feet within days of Sept. It quickly entered into a 10-year lease at 498 Seventh Ave. All 598 employees were safely evacuated and will begin moving to a Midtown location today. Oppenheimer Funds, led by CEO John Hunkin, is a refugee from Two World Trade Center, where it had more than 230,000 square feet. Its broker, Gus Field of Cushman & Wakefield, declined comment.įidelity also has 160,000 square feet at One World Financial Center, but it’s unclear if this would be a replacement for that space. Oppenheimer Funds is in serious negotiations to move to a New Jersey office tower to be finished next year.įidelity Investments is also increasing its space there.īrokers say Mack-Cali Realty Trust, the owners of Plaza 5 in Jersey City, is also negotiating with other large tenants that could bring the 980,000-square-foot tower to more than 85 percent occupancy.įidelity, which previously leased one floor, is now negotiating for another two floors, which would bring its total space to slightly more than 100,000 square feet.
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