Sanzari Completes Multi-Million-Dollar Glenpointe Marriott Project
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Sanzari Completes Multi-Million-Dollar Glenpointe Marriott Project
Alfred Sanzari Enterprises, a preeminent family-owned and operated commercial and residential real estate firm, announces the completion of a capital improvement project at the Glenpointe Marriott, a 351-room full-service hotel located on the company’s Glenpointe corporate campus in Teaneck, N.J. The capital improvement project transformed the hotel’s 39,317-square-foot