Name: Michael O'Keefe
Title: President
Company: The O'Keefe Group, Inc.
Location: 13-17 Bank St., Attleboro, Mass.
Place of birth: Dorchester, Mass. Date of birth: March 23, 1960
Family: Married with children
First job unrelated to current field: Real estate broker
First job in real estate or allied field: Waste industry sales and marketing
What your firm does now and its plans for the future: Full service waste management
Favorite book: "Creature from Jekyll Island"
Favorite movie: "A Beautiful Mind"
Keys to success: Persistence and caring
If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Social justice
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.