Name: Elliot Ravech
Title: Manager/Member
Company: Elliot & Co. LLC
Years with Company: 11 years
Years in real estate industry: 50+
Address: 128 Carnegie Row, Norwood, MA
Telephone: 781-762-1990 office / 617-633-8877 cell
Email: ravech@elliotco.com or ravech@msn.com
Website: www.elliotco.com
What year did you discover the New England Real Estate Journal and what business were you doing at that time? I first started reading NEREJ in 1964 while working for Lilly Construction on such projects as 535 Boylston St. (The Chase Building) and 545 Boylston St., both in Boston. Other projects I was working on at the time include the 358-unit The Town Estates Chestnut Hill; Sargent Estates, 103 luxury units in Brookline Mass.; Village Manor Apartments in Brighton Mass.; and Hingham Plaza in Hingham, Mass.
In what way has the New England Real Estate Journal been a benefit to you and your business? The NEREJ has given our Elliot & Co. and its projects great exposure to the real estate industry as a whole. Investors, lenders, tenants, brokers, municipal officials, developers and builders all keep abreast of what is happening through the New England Real Estate Journal. Advertising the NEREJ has helped me reach those important industry players.
How long have you been affiliated with the commercial real estate industry? I have been working in the real estate field for 50 years consecutively starting with Lilly Construction from 1960-1967. From 1967-1970 I worked with Construction Finance Corp. and from 1970-1974 with Kanavos Enterprises. From 1975-2002 I worked at Peter Elliot & Co. and from 2002 to present have run my own firm, Elliot & Co.
I would like to take the occasion of the New England Real Estate Journal's 50th anniversary to congratulate its founder and publisher, Roland Hopkins. Rolly, has been and remains as important to the real estate scene in New England as any developer, broker, banker, REIT, investor, planner, architect, contractor, tenant or management company. Throughout his more than 50 years of continual publishing of the NEREJ - in good times and in bad - he has weathered the inevitable storms with the rest of us. He has stayed up with the new innovations of communication and provides us all with a "reasonably priced" trade paper that unites us all in this great industry.