Anthony V. Pugliese III: Environmentalist and Energy Conservationist

Anthony Pugliese III is someone who understands that the environment needs to be protected, and he utilizes conservationist concepts in many of his projects that work toward this goal. He has been involved in the South Florida and New Jersey as a designer, businessman, collector and benefactor to bring natural resource issues to the forefront of the communities.

His business, the Pugliese Company, has developed an automated storage and retrieval machine with LEED-Certified construction called Safe and Secure Automated Self Storage that earned the Green Building of America Award from more than 2,500 projects, an honor for its energy efficiency and space-saving qualities. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a certification program that recognizes green buildings that save resources, including money, promote renewable, clean energy and be healthy to its occupants. In June 2009, the building also won the 2010 Outstanding Green Facility from more than 52,000 facilities in the U.S. and Canada.

He developed another eco-friendly venture, an innovative recycling facilities company in New Jersey, called Green Sky Industries. The vertical recycling operation, that employs 127 people. The company is the largest dedicated to private recycling in the state with 75 municipal contracts. It also helps businesses form new recycling programs.​

Earlier in his career, he designed a 135,000 square-foot building, the Crystal Corporate Center office building, in Boca Raton, Florida. It won the National Association of Office & Industrial Parks (NAOIP) Award and a best brochure design for an office building.

Another architecture project that incorporated the outdoors into its design is a natural-look pool that he first introduced in 1969 in the Northeast where it gained popularity among wealthy residents in the area.

Pugliese is also a collector who has donated rare pieces to auctions and other charity endeavors in the name of supporting the environment. In the case of a popular culture collection of approximately 800 pieces that included Marlon Brando’s fedora from “The Godfather,” the hat of the witch in “The Wizard of Oz” played by Margaret Hamilton in 1939, and the bowler hat worn by Odd Job in “The Goldfinger,” he sold the items at Guernsey’s Auction House in Las Vegas. The proceeds, which included $130,000 for the bowler hat and $208,000 for the witch hat, were then donated to the Audobon Society with the intention to support its mission to protect and preserve the earth. The organization works toward the goal of conserving and restoring natural ecosystems to protect the world’s biological diversity, according to its mission statement.

 

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Anthony V. Pugliese III – Pop Culture Collector

If there is one thing people love it is pop culture and references to pop culture. Whether it is an important news story that influences the country or famous items from a popular movie, pop culture has a way to inspire just about anyone and everyone who comes in contact with particular items. That is exactly why Anthony V. Pugliese III started his rather extensive collection of American pop culture artifacts. With over 850 artifacts set to be auction off by Anthony V. Pugliese, it is his eventual goal to raise enough money to build a brand new city in Florida, large enough for over 100,000 residents.

The property, which is located in central Florida is positioned on 41,000 acres. To raise money for the rather large endeavor, he decided to release some of his most prized artifacts that he collecetd over the years. One such item included the Witch’s hat from the Wizard of Oz. The hat alone received 13 bids with a final, winning offer, coming in at $170,000. Other desirable and notable items he sold included a Superman costume worn by Christopher Reeve, which sold for $45,000, a bullwhip used by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones, which sold for $57,200 and several different canes, all of which used and carried by Charlie Chaplin, which sold starting at $4,200 and up.

While Anthony V. Pugliese III sold a considerable number of famous Hollywood memorabilia, he also collects other items important to current and former pop culture. One item in particular is the gun used by Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Pugliese himself paid $220,000 for the gun back in 1991, although over time the firearm has increased in value, as there is so much continual interest in everything John F. Kennedy and the assassination of him. This includes items that are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald as well.

Anthony V. Pugliese III is more than just a collector of pop culture artifacts though. While he owns items ranging from James Bond movies all the way up to historical events, he is more known for his real estate ventures as well. He did use the money netted from some of the 850 pop culture artifacts to build the new city in Florida, which is the largest one time purchase and development of any region in Florida since Walt Disney purchased land in central Florida for Walt Disney World. Anthony V. Pugliese III also owns property in New York and is head of Green Sky Industries, which is a recycling company housed in New Jersey.

Anthony V. Pugliese’s love for pop culture has expanded to the point of actually creating a movie production company, World Films Inc., in order to produce movies that he finds interesting. The production company has released movies including The Butcher, Soft Target, The last Sentinel and his latest film project, called Grotesque. Plus, with the help of his son, who runs Video Protein, which creates video camera based gaming online, Anthony V. Pugliese III truly has a hand in all sorts of entertainment and pop culture endeavors.