In the Boston-area commercial real estate development, brokerage and architecture sectors, equity and inclusion efforts have been slow to gain traction despite a decade-long economic expansion and steady job growth.
Mentorship matters more than ever in the midst of a pandemic., something Carlos Febres-Mazzei knows well. The new chairman of ULI Boston/New England is overseeing a number of equity and inclusion strategies trying to put this knowledge into action.
Commercial real estate’s lack of diversity is a reflection of its word-of-mouth recruiting networks and the industry’s low profile among college students as a career option. Now, NAIOP-MA says its efforts to attack the problem are starting to pay off.
They roamed construction sites at Boston’s newest office towers, trekked down Newbury Street filling out retail tenant maps and retrieved data on submarkets used in client briefings.
