2026 Spring Preview: Sheryl Guglielmo, DiPrete Engineering

What projects, initiatives, or types of work are currently keeping your team busiest? Our team is busy with retail, multifamily, and industrial projects, with a strong concentration in convenience retail, fueling facilities, and mixed use sites. Tight schedules and active operations add layers of complexity that require thoughtful planning and clear communication. We’re also seeing consistent demand for site reuse and infill work, as clients look to maximize existing assets while navigating utilities, stormwater, zoning, and aging infrastructure. We continue to invest in internal initiatives that support strong project delivery, mentorship, and an elevated client experience.

What opportunities or challenges do you see shaping the commercial real estate landscape over the next several months? Projects are most successful when owners and project teams invest early in understanding site constraints, infrastructure capacity, and regulatory expectations. That clarity creates opportunities for smoother permitting and more predictable execution. Challenges remain – municipal review processes, aging infrastructure, and cost sensitivity continue to influence decision making as clients balance speed with risk awareness. Our team is well positioned to combat these conditions by communicating proactively, planning strategically, and executing with confidence to keep projects moving forward.

What trends or market activity are you seeing as we move into the spring season? Redevelopment activity continues to flourish, particularly projects that build on or reposition existing sites rather than starting from the ground up. We’re also seeing steady momentum in convenience retail, fueling, and other service-oriented uses where speed to market and operational efficiency are essential. These projects tend to move quickly, which makes early coordination and realistic permitting strategies more important than ever. At the same time, owners are placing greater emphasis on infrastructure readiness, driving more upfront due diligence and a collaborative, phased approach.