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
Malden, MA According to Combined Properties, Inc., the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) has renewed its lease at 195 Canal St. and will continue to operate its Malden Family Medicine Center there
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.