Cell Tower Consultant Executive Profile
Steve Kazella, Founder at Tower Genius

Cell Tower Consultant and Telecom Lease Genius, Stephen Kazella is the Founder and Managing Partner of Tower Genius LLC, an independent Wireless Coaching and Consulting firm. Tower Genius is a niche consultancy. We help property owners, churches, landlords, attorneys, appraisers, real estate developers, utilities and municipalities when they have questions about a newly proposed or existing wireless telecommunications lease agreement.  We are subject matter experts in wireless infrastructure, cell tower ground leases, rooftop leases and cell tower rental stream easement purchase transactions.  We save cell tower landlords time and money as they leverage over 50+ years combined wireless industry experience when we doing your team. Tower Genius is one of only a handful of firms in the United States who work exclusively with Owners and Landlords to guide them through the shark infested waters of Telecommunications Leasing, to maximize their cellular lease revenues, and level the playing field with the Cellular Carriers and Cell Tower Management Companies.

Steve graduated Montclair State College with a Bachelor of Science Degree and moved to Budapest, Hungary in 1993. He decided to commit several years of service right after graduating college to serve the poor, serving as an International Partner for Habitat for Humanity International where he helped dozens of low income, hard working Hungarian families the achieve the dream of home ownership in  country where before 1996 there hadn't been a single mortgage underwritten for a residential home purchase.

Steve helped organize the finance committee and helped draft perhaps the first residential mortgage document ever underwritten in the former Eastern Block. (Steve was even mentioned by his friend, Founder and Former CEO of Habitat for Humanity International, Millard Fuller (1935-2009) in his book, "A Simple, Decent Place To Live" and made countless media appearances while promoting Habitat for Humanity raise funds in Budapest.

(Pictured Above: Stephen L. Kazella
alongside President Carter in Hungary, 1996.)

Steve Kazella got his first experience in real estate site acquisition and dealing with city zoning officials as an International Partner with Habitat For Humanity International in Budapest, Hungary in 1993. As a fluent Hungarian speaker he negotiated and helped secure several municipal land donations for Habitat construction sites in several cities including Mátészalka and  Vác, Hungary, the site of the 1996 Jimmy Carter Work Project, where Steve was also responsible for family selection.

Steve Kazella's telecommunications leasing experience stems from his wireless leasing position at Integrated Wireless Alliance in Rockland County, New York where he started out in 2000 as a real estate project manager leasing cell tower sites for Verizon Wireless, OmniPoint (later VoiceStream, now T-Mobile) and Sprint PCS. He also project managed co-locations with Crown, American Tower, SpectraSite, Nextel and AT&T Wireless in New Jersey, Rockland County, Orange County, Dutchess County, Putnam County, Westchester County and New York City.

Steve had full project lifecycle involvement from initial site identification through site selection, wireless lease negotiation, application and zoning, until handing off site to construction engineers.

As a cell tower consultant in his daily routine  he dealt with landlords, attorneys, construction managers, architectural engineers and radio frequency (RF)  engineers, building inspectors, tax assessors and zoning boards. Steve has remained active in helping municipalities develop wireless ordinances and has been a vocal proponent for increased E911 coverage  through the development of additional Municipal, County and State cellular sites with streamlined  zoning  requirements.

Perhaps the major accomplishment of his wireless career was being part of an 8 member Emergency Response CERT Team where who supported FEMA and one of the nation's leading wireless carriers in organizing and directing emergency recovery and disaster response efforts immediately after 9/11 at the World Trade Center site at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.

His team was directly responsible for the deployment of 36 portable cell towers (COWS = cell on wheels), getting temporary power and linking up a microwave feed from Jersey City to Lower Manhattan, making sure everyone's cell phone worked in Lower Manhattan after the attacks.

Steve Kazella has transitioned from being a traditional site acquisition cell tower consultant working for the carriers on their tower leases, to being a recognized cell tower and rooftop cell site leasing coach, consultant and landlord advocate.

Steve also has considerable experience in retained and contingency executive search, specializing in recruitment of wireless infrastructure and mission critical facilities engineering professionals.

If you are a landlord or property owner in need of a cell tower consultant who does not have any conflicts with the cellular carriers or with the cell tower developers, then you should contact cell tower consultant Steve Kazella or call 1-888-313-9750.

Steve's Published Articles:

Inside Self Storage - Cell Tower article, October 2009 Issue

Church Solutions Magazine - republished 2010: Cell Towers and Your Church 

Cell Tower Consultant In the Media:

New York Times: Good Cellphone Service Comes at a Price

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com:  Disguised cellular phone towers sprout up across N.J.

Realtor Magazine - 2018 - Are Cell Tower Leases in Your Sight? 

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