Rosemary Connors left a 15-year reporter and anchor career at NBC10 to create a scaffolding company, Rosette Specialty Trades, writes Jeff Blumenthal for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
It has been at the scene of construction projects for Temple University, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Lincoln Financial Field, and Citizens Bank Park.
Future projects include work with SEPTA, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia building, and a pro bono project at the Ronald McDonald House in University City.
Connors was inspired by her mother-in-law and her husband, who founded a Media Borough-based chimney maintenance and repair company, D.J. Cross, 45 years ago.
Connors was an informal consultant to D.J. Cross during her time on the air at NBC10.
“Over the last few years, I knew that when the time would come for me to leave NBC10, it would be into the construction space,” Connors said. “It was really about finding the right opportunity and the right moment to do it. It all really came together last year.”
Connors invested her own money to start Rosette last December. The company has turned a profit in less than six months.
Find out more about Rosemary Connor’s career shift in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
