Category: Spotlights
2024 Women in Construction: Kimberly Alley, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C.
March 29, 2024
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My greatest recent professional achievement was successfully resolving a complex multi-party construction dispute as lead trial counsel. Initially, I was the only female attorney of over 20 lawyers in the case.
2024 Women in Construction: Stasha Greenalch, BW Kennedy & Co.
March 29, 2024
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? For the last year, I have been working on a campus with four buildings, one building with active tenants. I was the project manager on two of the buildings which consisted of a complete gut, including abatement.
2024 Women in Construction: Rachana Kheraj, Bridgeline Exteriors
March 29, 2024
What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My greatest achievement in the last 12 months was the creation and full scale launch and operation of two more divisions of our company, wood framing and our capital projects divisions nationally.
2024 Women in Construction: Risa Taylor, Metro Walls
March 29, 2024
What has been the driving force behind your success in the AEC industry? For me, there is only one answer to this and that is my passion for people. Without our people, there would be no industry. We are fortunate that we don’t work in an industry that is going to lose jobs to AI, BI, or most automation.
Maugel DeStefano Architects completes operating and
central sterilization suites at Sturdy Memor...
March 29, 2024
Attleboro, MA Maugel DeStefano Architects has completed a five-phased renovation project at Sturdy Memorial Hospital. The multi-year renovations transformed the hospital’s facilities and enhanced patient care and staff efficiency. This last phase of the project concluded
Using IRC Section 121 the “Principal Residence Exclusion” and IRC Section 1031 tax-deferred exch...
March 29, 2024
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 1031 allows a property owner, who holds property for “the productive use in a trade or business or for investment”, to defer paying capital gains taxes if a property owner sells such property, identifies like-kind property within forty-five days of the
Making sense of uncertain markets - by Bill Pastuszek
March 29, 2024
This New England winter has been less than satisfactory. It’s New England, right? What about the noble winters of yesteryear: snowstorms, freezing rain, skiing, epic shoveling, staking out parking spaces in the city, and dead batteries? Instead, the weather never made up its mind. Thus, the
Spring forward with caution - by David O'Sullivan
March 29, 2024
I always enjoy the onset of spring. It is a time of warmer weather, plants and trees starting to show signs of life and an overall anticipation by everyone of enjoying the outside. I wish the real estate and development industry was so easy to predict as the coming of spring. We have a Fed meeting
Staffing problems continue to plague industry - by Earle Wason
March 29, 2024
In my opinion, nothing has changed since I wrote my NEREJ 2024 Forecast article. I still believe in all my 50 years as a Realtor, this may be the craziest and most unpredictable period I can remember. We still have no clue as to the effects of an election year, war in Ukraine and Israel, the turmoil
Small bays for big boys (and girls) part 2: What to expect - by David Skinner
March 29, 2024
If you have been keeping up with the industrial updates lately here at the New England Real Estate Journal, you might notice that this article is a continuation of the last article where we jumped into the discussion about small bay industrial properties. Last time, we
Marina industry overview - by Jeffrey Dugas
March 29, 2024
Despite some normalization across sales, recreational boating continued to be a significant driver to the U.S. economy due to the estimated 85 million Americans who go boating each year. It drives an economic impact of $230 billion, up 36% from 2018, while supporting 36,000 U.S.
Southern New Hampshire industrial market - by Bob Rohrer
March 29, 2024
When you consider the 2024 industrial real estate market on a national level, you will find mixed signals, but the overall appearance is that things are heading in a reasonable direction. According to Colliers’ National Industrial Research team, the continued inertia in
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