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or under-deliver on service expectations,
their business models would fare better. In
any case, he’s not so concerned by what the
others do; only what he is doing to grow his
business.
Spiezio is neither a shrinking violet nor
one to be so easily dismissed. The son of the
late Joseph Spiezio, Jr, a USAF veteran who
earned the Asiatic/Pacific Service Medal,
Good Conduct Medal, World War II Vic-
tory Medal and the American Service Medal
prior to launching a career with the New
York offices of Corroon & Black, Spiezio is
very much his father’s son; consumed with
a confidence and can-do attitude which may
be largely compelled by his own hard-earned
success in business. As a real estate developer
and owner of a property management firm,
Spiezio’s holdings (which include shopping
centers and residential developments) grew
in New York and expanded into Louisiana
and Florida. He’ll be the first to concede
growing that enterprise often made for con-
tentious competition. For good insight as to
Spiezio’s ingenuity in such situations, one
might consider what happened some years
ago after he backed a candidate that success-
fully won the mayoral election in Yonkers,
President and Owner
Joseph Spiezio III
