Portland, ME John Finegan, an associate broker at The Boulos Company, has been named co-chair of the Maine Real Estate & Development Association’s (MEREDA’s) Local Issues Committee.

At The Boulos Company, Finegan works on the brokerage team of Drew Sigfridson, SIOR and Jessica Estes. He works in leasing and sales of commercial real estate in Southern Maine with a particular focus on multifamily. Prior to joining Boulos, Finegan spent four years at SynQor, Inc., a defense contractor based in Mass., as a regional sales manager covering Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Benelux and the UK.

MEREDA’s active Local Issues Committee was created in 2019 to monitor and timely engage on local land use and development matters. The Committee has a two-fold mission: to develop and deploy a proactive educational initiative designed to inform developers across Maine in best practices and tools to minimize local resistance to a real estate development project; and to react to issues that rise to a level of concern that warrant the engagement of MEREDA to influence the outcome of such an issue in a manner that is favorable to MEREDA.

Finegan will co-chair the Local Issues Committee with Tom Schoening of Drummond & Drummond who has chaired the committee since its inception. MEREDA’s vice president of operations, Shelly Clark said, “John is a valuable member of the Local Issues Committee. He brings a strong and diverse background, and we look forward to working and collaborating with him on behalf of MEREDA’s members on the various issues that the committee addresses.”