MLK Day is always a hard one for me because the celebration presents as performative and highlights our continued hypocrisy with race. Take some time to learn about the evolution of his leadership in civil rights and how his journey evolved into being a movement dominated by concepts of economic justice and equity.
Real estate can help design this new future or be remembered as one of the obstacles future generations had to overcome to get there. But either way, time will march on, and justice will continue to seep into all aspects of business.
Rules in Boston that set minimums for the participation of city residents, women and people of color as workers on construction projects are not being met by the vast majority of top projects.
A bank renovation project launched Gregory Minott’s entrepreneurial career at age 18 and piqued his interest in architecture. Now, leading Boston’s DREAM Collaborative, he’s trying to build new pathways for Black professionals in architecture and more inclusive city planning.
State and city officials praised the new hotel for helping boost the city’s convention business and creating an opening for women- and minority-owned firms in real estate and construction.
Every single city and town in the Bay State except for one saw its share of white residents as a percentage of the local population decrease from 2010 to 2020.
Tremont Asset Management hopes to raise a 19-story tower on the site of an early 1900s apartment building it owns next to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
By making three changes to their request for proposals, Boston officials have simultaneously made it much more likely this fallow legacy of urban “renewal” will be developed while lifting up communities who’ve too long been given short shrift.
As former Massport security official Herby Duvernéhis Boston-based development firm, RISE Together work to develop projects from Haverhill to downtown Boston, they’re seeking out new investors from diverse local communities who haven’t traditionally been part of real estate projects.
In the past several weeks Critical Race Theory, or CRT, has become the new “hot topic” in America’s continuing struggle to move forward productively on race. But businesses interested in growth ignore the debate at their peril.
Many U.S. companies have rushed to appoint Black members to their boards of directors since racial justice protests swept the country last year.
The diversity of the development teams vying for a piece of state-owned land in downtown Boston is something to be celebrated. But it also gives lie to the old saw that it’s “too hard to find” diverse firms to partner with.
Vying for one of the last Big Dig remnant parcels in Boston, six development teams are balancing the usual decisions about a market-ready mix of property uses with new elevated standards for diverse design and project ownership teams.
A new survey from the National Association of Realtors finds that the median white residential Realtor makes about three times what the median Black residential Realtor does.
By reaching backwards in time, we can create business traditions that reinforce the core business proposition that diversity and inclusion are necessary for any company to thrive long-term.
Less than one in three Latino Bay Staters own their own home, the lowest level of any major racial ethnic group in Massachusetts in a new National Association of Realtors study.
The local real estate and banking industries are big ships that turn slowly. But when they begin to move, as the many actions featured in this week’s issue of Banker & Tradesman show, the results are impressive.
Jeanne Pinado, the former CEO of Madison Park Development Corp., joined Colliers International’s Boston office in January, becoming one of the first Black women in a top role in local commercial brokerage.
Today, many of these neighborhoods house Black and immigrant populations that have been excluded from an aspect of the American dream – building wealth through equity. Most recently, the spotlight came down on the role real estate appraisers might play in perpetuating undervaluation of homes in some neighborhoods or owned by people of color.
In an unusual, if not unprecedented, move for a major trade organization, the National Association of Realtors has taken full ownership for any and all discriminatory actions taken over the years by the 1.4 million agents and brokers for which it speaks.
