William F. “Bill” Rinaldi is the President and CEO of Mark Construction Services, founder of Hazleton Creek Properties, LLC. and former President of Tunnel Hill Partners. Mr. Rinaldi prides himself not only on the scope and profitability of his accomplishments but on his commitment to “community capitalism” – bringing rich economic, social and societal benefits to any area he develops. Celebrating its 25th year, Mark Construction Services, Inc. is a full-service construction management and development company that is dedicated to investment in and procurement of projects that benefit local educational, institutional and commercial endeavors. Among Mark Construction Services’ signature projects is the construction of student residences and stunning conversion of existing buildings for education services and student recreation for Lackawanna College in Scranton Pennsylvania – projects totaling almost 20 million dollars. Mark Construction is also responsible for the Settler’s View townhome development of luxury residences on former unused mine land. Mark Construction also recently converted a once blighted single family residence in Scranton into a Walgreen’s Pharmacy, which has become a linchpin for further development in the formerly depressed and neglected west side of Scranton.
Mr. Rinaldi’s “highlight reel” includes: 1) Fort Mifflin Reclamation – where he and his team provided design and construction services to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District (CENAP) for a new dredge material transfer facility for trucks and rail lines at the Fort Mifflin Confined Disposal Facility. The project involved the removal of 500,000 cubic yards of dredge materials from the Delaware River within a 12-month period, as well as the configuration of new rail tracks and 50-car unit trains to transport the materials off-site. The design plan featured the added benefit of removing approximately 10,000 trucks from Pennsylvania’s highways; 2) Hazleton Creek Properties. LLC., the largest Mine Reclamation project in Pennsylvania’s history which reclaimed and converted 277 acres of blighted mine lands into a viable commercial property which will ultimately be developed into five million square feet of warehousing and industrial space – bringing myriad jobs and tax revenue to the depressed City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania; 3) Tunnel Hill Partners, LP, as President of Tunnel Hill Partners, Mr. Rinaldi was instrumental in helping to create the largest integrated waste by rail network in the United States and helped Tunnel Hill Partners be named to Inc. Magazine’s “Entrepreneur Superstars” in 2016. In 2018 and 2019, Mr. Rinaldi guided Tunnel Hill into an acquisition first by Wheelabrator and then subsequently by the Macquarie Group; 4) Envirowaste, recognizing the chronic waste problem in one of America’s largest cities, Mr. Rinaldi and his group built and operated Envirowaste, a rail-driven, fully-permitted solid waste management and resource recovery facility capable of handling over 150,000 tons of waste per year; 5) Invenergy Lackawanna Energy Center, in 2019 Mr. Rinaldi’s brainchild — the Lackawanna Energy Center in Jessup, Pennsylvania commenced operation. This 1.5 billion dollar undertaking created hundreds of jobs, enriched the energy supply in Northeastern Pennsylvania and is considered one of the most energy efficient power plants in the United States, 6) Northeast Marcellus Aqua Midstream—anticipating the critical need for water in the shale drilling industry, Mr. Rinaldi and his group created one of the largest water pipelines in the state and provides several million gallons of water a day to the Marcellus shale industry.
Mr. Rinaldi’s commitment to community development is not limited to massive undertakings, he is also the founder of the Northeastern Economic Development Company of PA-CDC, Inc. (NEDCO), a regional non-profit organization dedicated to contributing to the economic development of Pennsylvania communities through affordable loan programs specifically designed for small businesses. The company is a non-profit Community Development Corporation which offers unique new SBA loans to small business owners. Since its inception in 2002, NEDCO has closed almost 500 loans on behalf of business applicants. Bill is also a Board Member of Metro Action, another non-profit community development organization affiliated with the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce.
Bill participates in a myriad of philanthropic endeavors, often under the cloak of anonymity. Some publicized ones that Bill savors are: 1) his long participation with the Ronald McDonald House of Scranton, Pennsylvania and 2) his creation, with Joe Maddon, then Manager of the Chicago Cubs, of a state-of-the-art playground for the Hazleton, Pennsylvania Integration Project in 2017, 3) his decades long relationship supporting the Helping Hands Society of Hazleton, PA and 4) his recent sponsorship of the Move for Moosic cause to reinvent and rejuvenate green spaces in the Moosic Borough.