Spotlights

2022 Ones to Watch: Zack Rotkiewicz, Safety Officer at Tecta America NE & WeatherGuard

What recent project, transaction or accomplishment are you most proud of? We’re proud that Tecta America WeatherGuard recently earned a bronze award for workplace safety from NESCA, having only one lost workday

2022 Ones to Watch: Will Duggan, Program Manager, ESG at EBI Consulting

What led you to your current profession? Since being introduced to the concept of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) at Lehigh University, I have always seen value in considering ESG concerns when making business decisions.

2022 Ones to Watch: Itamar Chalif, Vice President at Rockland Trust Company

What recent project, transaction or accomplishment are you most proud of? My work includes many business mergers and acquisitions, often with commercial real estate and equipment. In most instances I work with the customer over an extended period of time

2022 Ones to Watch: Marc Clerc, Owner at Clerc & Associates, P.C.

What recent project, transaction or accomplishment are you most proud of? I am most proud of the relationships we build with our clients. We handled more than 75 mergers and acquisitions of businesses in this last year.

2022 Ones to Watch: Dan Ren, Project Manager at NEI General Contracting

What recent project, transaction or accomplishment are you most proud of? I’m most proud of achieving my first career goal, being promoted from assistant project manager to project manager. During my time at NEI I’ve been given opportunities to use my background in engineering management

NAI Plotkin: Family and real estate business roots go back more than 100 years

Springfield, MA “100% Location” a real estate catchphrase coined by Nathan Nirenstein more than 100 years ago to describe the best sites for retail businesses in a commercial area is still as relevant as it was then.  In 1920, Springfield real estate entrepreneur Nathan Nirenstein launched

Restaurants are part of our DNA... don’t even try to fight it - by Dennis Serpone

God, or some extraterrestrial ancient alien astronauts that interacted with humans as some theorist suggest (sorry, I guess I watch too much television) has infused us with the need to eat to survive. However, evolution has taken us from ‘hunting and gathering’ in the woods to cart-banging

The “New Normal”: Those that cannot adapt will be forced to transition - by Bill Norton

Here we are in late May and the commercial sector is hopping along with only retail and office lagging. The Fed announced a 50 basis point increase yesterday (with more to come). The inflation genie is out of the bottle and it is always a guess as to how to get it back in! In this instance, it has been a long

The morphing of real estate occupancies and its impact on risk management - by Spencer Macalaster

Having sat on the board of directors for the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District, we are intimately aware of the social, financial and employee impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Boston’s commercial real estate district. Footfall traffic has dropped to unprecedented lows and tenant office

Despite economic challenges, development remains resilient - by Dylan Cruess

This has been quite a year thus far! I started my article off last year with the exact same sentiment. Many of the same growth factors and uncertainties from last year are still present now. Despite many economic challenges we are experiencing, including the continued rise of construction costs, th