by Steve Adams | Aug 20, 2023
South Shore properties long held by family businesses have risen in value and demand as redevelopment sites, creating a growth niche for David Ellis and Ellis Realty Advisors to help owners map out exit strategies.
by Nika Cataldo | Aug 13, 2023
Abby Nguyen-Burke’s early job as a part-time bank teller at Eastern Bank became her gateway to open up new opportunities for underrepresented small business owners at Eastern’s Equity Alliance for Business project.
by Steve Adams | Aug 6, 2023
John Dolan – also known as the Bruins’ PA announcer – takes over leadership of brokerage Avison Young’s New England region at a critical moment in the region’s commercial real estate industry.
by Steve Adams | Jul 30, 2023
As a young attorney, Brian Awe got to work with Boston-based Fallon Co. as it permitted its signature waterfront project at Fan Pier. Now the company’s president, his career is coming full circle as the firm prepares to develop the project’s final parcel.
by James Sanna | Jul 23, 2023
Alison Socha’s 23 years in real estate started with a personal connection. As a teenager, she babysat Linda O’Koniewski’s children long before the now-CEO of Leading Edge Real Estate had worked her way into her leadership position.
by Steve Adams | Jul 16, 2023
Fred Clarke’s fateful decision to accept César Pelli’s job offer 50 years ago set in motion a sweeping career that’s included designing some of the biggest punctuation marks on the skylines of the world’s biggest cities, including Boston.
by James Sanna | Jul 9, 2023
New Valley Bank President and CEO Jeffrey Sullivan has guided his four-year-old institution through explosive growth, in part thanks to an early marketing boost from PPP lending and in part from embracing the Pioneer Valley’s growing cohort of highly diverse entrepreneurs.
by Steve Adams | Jul 2, 2023
Robert Cooper’s Worcester proptech startup Embue says it can predict which of the “hundreds or thousands” of Boston apartments that will have to start paying carbon emissions fees in the next few years.
by James Sanna | Jun 25, 2023
Isabel Cruz is a familiar face to some in the housing advocacy world from her time at MHP. Now, she’s taking that experience to lead Boston-area CRA work at M&T Bank as it looks to build on the work of the former People’s United Bank.
by Steve Adams | Jun 25, 2023
Joann Kalogianis Spaneas and Demetrius Spaneas have built a successful husband-and-wife partnership in developing and selling luxury properties north of Boston. The firm’s projects include redevelopment of a Lowell mill and raising equity for a planned hotel.
by Steve Adams | Jun 18, 2023
As regional banks get choosier about their lending commitments, developers need to widen their contact lists in seeking financing for new projects by talking to people like Fergal Woods, managing partner at Finance Boston.
by James Sanna | Jun 11, 2023
Former city councilor Kenzie Bok is bringing big ideas and big visions to her new job as the incoming head of the Boston Housing Authority, including a goal to bring around 2,500 new public housing units to the city.
by Steve Adams | Jun 4, 2023
Jared Krieger is settling into his new role co-leading the 200-employee office of architects Gensler as the architectural firm expands its physical footprint and returns to a more robust in-office work environment.
by Steve Adams | May 21, 2023
After a decade-long career detour, Brad Cangiamila returned to his native Massachusetts and put his real estate connections to work at a new multi-state investment and development firm, Crest City Capital.
by Diane McLaughlin | May 14, 2023
Inflation is still up and economic anxiety is rising – as is the need Allen Amadin sees for the types of help Auburndale-based American Consumer Credit Counseling provides.
by Steve Adams | May 7, 2023
After developing 2,200 affordable housing units and partnering on another 1,700 during the past half-century, Cruz Cos. is expanding home ownership opportunities in Dorchester and joining the development boom in Roxbury’s Nubian Square under John B. Cruz III.
by James Sanna | Apr 30, 2023
Advisors Living is bringing a fresh, new name to the suburban Boston residential brokerage scene. Under CEO Merit McIntyre, it opened 11 new offices in rapid-fire fashion last year after many years focused on marketing new-construction condominiums downtown.
by Steve Adams | Apr 23, 2023
Ann Ehrhart founded retail brokerage and advisory services firm Eversteet in late 2022 to fill the gaps in the traditional brokerage model that prevent deals from being consummated.
by Diane McLaughlin | Apr 23, 2023
The Washington Trust Co. is known as the oldest community bank in the United States, but no woman has ever held the title of president and COO of the bank until Mary Noons steps into the role this week.
by Steve Adams | Apr 16, 2023
Stephen Callahan Jr. is part of the third generation of management in Callahan Construction Managers as the company raises its profile throughout New England and the tri-state area as it nears its 70-year anniversary.