Name: Juan Prieto
Title: President
Company: Davenport Asset Management
Location: 100 Franklin St., Suite 901, Boston, Mass.
Place of birth: Havana, Cuba
Family: Single
College: Georgia Tech, Harvard Business School
First job unrelated to your current field: Miguel Chinchilla Verona Associates, Consulting Engineers
First job in current field: Cabot, Cabot & Forbes
What your firm does now and its plans for the future: Asset management and advisory services
Hobbies: Travel, collect contemporary photography, restore cars
Favorite book: "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Marquez
Favorite movie: "The Lost City" directed by Andy Garcia
Key to success: Attention to detail
Person you most admire (outside of family): Winston Churchill
If you had to choose another vocation, what would it be? Movie director
Wallingford, CT O,R&L Commercial has completed the $3.8 million sale of a mixed-use investment property located at 33-39 North Main St. and 24-25 Wallace Ave. in the town center.
Now what? As the year comes to a close, the state of retail is always in the news. The answers vary greatly depending on who in the various related industries you ask, each offering a unique lens on the challenges and opportunities ahead.
This may seem self-serving, and I’ll be the first to admit it. But unlike some of the artificial intelligence tools now reshaping our industry, I am fully aware of my own bias. So, hear me out. The rise of AI in commercial real estate is not a distant threat or a speculative headline.