With a fleet of automobile dealerships, the Somerset Patriots baseball team, a Bayonne film studio, and two Academy Award nominations, Steve Kalafer may be a business Renaissance man. Named Ernst & Young’s 2002 “Entrepreneur of the Year in New Jersey,” Kalafer helped create a public and private partnership with Somerset County for the $17.7 million construction of Bridgewater’s Commerce Bank Ballpark for the Patriots, which opened in 1999. His company, Fidelco Bayonne Realty, is currently commissioned to redevelop part of the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor—formerly the Military Ocean Terminal.
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