News: Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: September 20, 2012
Morgan joins Historic Boston as real estate development director
Jeffrey Morgan has joined Historic Boston Inc., the nonprofit redeveloper of historic properties, as real estate development director. Morgan has been a practicing architect, urban designer, and real estate developer. He recently earned a Masters Degree in Design Studies in Real Estate and Urban Development from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Morgan formerly taught design at Iowa State University. As an architect, he designed market-rate and affordable multifamily housing and mixed-use and retail infill development in multicultural neighborhoods. Morgan is an Edward M. Gramlich Fellow of the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies and NeighborWorks America.
Historic Boston Inc. is a nonprofit preservation and real estate organization that rehabilitates historic and culturally significant properties in Boston's neighborhoods so they are a useable part of the city's present and future. HBI works with local partners to identify and invest in historic buildings and cultural resources whose re-use will catalyze neighborhood renewal. HBI acquires and redevelops historic structures and provides technical expertise, planning services and financing for rehabilitation projects. HBI projects demonstrate that preserving historic properties is economically viable and that they can be useable and functioning assets in a community. For more information, please see www.historicboston.org .
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