by Steve Adams | Oct 25, 2015
Andrea DeSimone helps landlords spice up their restaurant offerings and makes reservations for new dining concepts looking for locations in the competitive Boston market. Since 2010, DeSimone has led CBRE Grossman Retail Advisors’ urban team, representing landlords such as Fan Pier developer Fallon Co. and tenants such as Paul Bakery and Papagayo. She also is active in leasing of prime retail storefronts from the Seaport to Back Bay.
by Christopher R. Vaccaro | Oct 25, 2015
With Black Friday and the holiday shopping season approaching, retailers hope for sales revenues that will make them profitable in 2015. Landlords who receive percentage rent from retail tenants share their hope. Percentage rent clauses in retail leases encourage a...
by Banker & Tradesman | Oct 11, 2015
The Massachusetts Association of Realtors has selected its four annual award winners for 2015. The winners were honored at the association’s professional awards reception, held in conjunction with the association’s 2015 Conference and Tradeshow at the Hilton...
by Laura Alix | Aug 22, 2015
Commercial RE Lending Takes Off Community Banks Well Represented Amidst Larger Firms By Laura Alix Banker & Tradesman Staff The Fast 50, compiled from data collected by The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman, reveals the 50 fastest growing lenders...
by Laura Alix | Jul 26, 2015
The 45 Province development in Boston’s Downtown Crossing neighborhood may well be one of the many highlights of Tina Bacci’s career. “Five years ago, people were looking at us like we were crazy,” Bacci recalled. But now a once-struggling development commands high...
by Linda Goodspeed | Jul 26, 2015
Whether serving as the president of the board of directors or as a key staff member, Leslie Bos has been a mainstay of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. (JPNDC) for the last 20 years. Currently, she is real estate director of the nonprofit community...
by Christina P. O'Neill | Jul 26, 2015
Margaret Briggs got into environmental consultancy right out of college when the arena was in its infancy. She worked for HMM Associates for 18 years; it was bought out by Earth Tech, based in Concord, and later became AEcom. Desiring a return to midsized private...
by Banker & Tradesman | Jul 26, 2015
It might not be the way most people operate, but for Audra Dainora, the more complicated the project, the better. Dainora spearheaded the massive renovation of Junior League of Boston’s headquarters on Newbury Street, a historic building that took over five years to...
by Steve Adams | Jul 26, 2015
Having been born, raised and schooled in California, Jordanna Ferreira was skeptical in 2010 when she got a call from a recruiter about a job opportunity in Boston at a developer called The Davis Cos. “I said, ‘No, thank you, I’m not interested in going to Boston,’”...
by Katelyn Conley | Jul 26, 2015
“Create Your Balance” is not only the new tagline for United Bank; it’s also the motto Dena Hall lives and works by. The regional president and chief marketing officer balances her roles inside the company alongside her roles as the president of the United Bank...
by Linda Goodspeed | Jul 26, 2015
Teresa Hassara, executive vice president and head of institutional business at TIAA-CREF, says values and people matter in choosing a career. After earning a master’s of business administration degree from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business,...
by Christina P. O'Neill | Jul 26, 2015
Jeannette Lanza is a front-and-center example of the value of experience in the entrepreneurial process. Her strong suit is relationship-building. In 2012, after more than two decades of working within the industry, Lanza acquired Braintree-based H.J. Knight...
by Linda Goodspeed | Jul 26, 2015
Jennifer Malboeuf Crampton says she got her passion for real estate from her dad. “He owned an equipment rental company in Gloucester, and did a lot of construction and building on the side,” Crampton said. “That was his real passion in life. I used to tag along with...
by Debbie Swanson | Jul 26, 2015
Karen Marryat, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Blue Hills Bank, said the path her career took was due, in part, to the advice of a professor in her undergraduate days at University of Rhode Island. “He told the marketing graduates to consider...
by Laura Alix | Jul 26, 2015
Nancy McCafferty has always been a numbers person, beginning with her very first job: a paper route where she had to collect neighbors’ subscription fees and take them to the bank. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the real estate bug bit her early on, when a company she...
by Debbie Swanson | Jul 26, 2015
Piercey interned at Wolf while in a student at the Isenberg School at UMass Amherst and returned to the firm in 2004. She credits the positive culture at Wolf for her success in championing many initiatives and practice enhancements. Although it is a large firm with...
by Steve Adams | Jul 26, 2015
Lauren Plant was in for a dose of culture shock when she left her position at Cambridge Assoc. in Boston in favor of a new job at Hudson-based real estate developer Calare Properties. While the position in investor relations offered an opportunity for professional...
by Debbie Swanson | Jul 26, 2015
Dedication, a strong sense of ethics and setting her sights on goals have driven not only Paula Savard’s successful real estate career, but her personal life as well. As a young a mother, Savard was looking for a flexible, yet lucrative, way to provide for her two...
by Christina P. O'Neill | Jul 26, 2015
It call comes back to what her grandmother told her, Ellen Tan said: “When you love one another and take care of each other, everyone prospers.” Tan, who has spent 22 years with the Commonwealth Land Trust (CLT), is part of a hard-working family of Lebanese immigrants...
by Banker & Tradesman | Jul 13, 2015
The growing customer utilization of mobile technology has driven investments in mobile banking for banks across the country over the last decade. Spending on information technology at banks has increased by over 49 percent over the last five years. These investments...
