Frank J. Vitolo, a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Land Use Practice Group, is a recognized leader in planning, zoning and redevelopment law. His practice is state-wide and he has served as lead development counsel for many of the region’s major real estate projects, including the planning and redevelopment of M-Station Morristown – Sanofi and Deloitte’s new headquarters in New Jersey, Valley Bank’s new New Jersey headquarters, and RH’s new furniture gallery, restaurant and wine bar in Morris Township.
Mr. Vitolo has successfully litigated numerous land use appeals. He has also obtained favorable outcomes for clients involved in complex partnership and real estate disputes, and won dismissal of product liability and consumer fraud actions in federal and state courts.
Over the past five years, Mr. Vitolo has developed a cannabis practice, including obtaining approvals for cultivation, manufacturing, and retail businesses in Jersey City, Morristown and Vernon, New Jersey, among other places. He has also litigated several cannabis disputes in this burgeoning field.
Mr. Vitolo has practiced law in New Jersey and New York for over twenty-five years. Before returning to New Jersey in 2003, where Mr. Vitolo was born and raised, he practiced law at a prominent Washington, D.C. law firm.