Spotlights

2021 Women in Construction: Rosemary Duffy, Vice President | Interiors, Columbia

How have you adapted and changed in the last 12 months? I have been challenged this past year by managing the Interiors Group during the pandemic. We have all adapted to virtual meetings, social distancing, and unfortunate times due to the pandemic.

2021 Women in Construction: Maureen Rystrom, Vice President of Marketing | Partner, J. Calnan & Associates

Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? I really have to highlight our CEO Jay Calnan. Following a big industry event one day, I jokingly mentioned the experience was akin to “wading through a sea of blue suits and silver hair.” Jay responded in a supportive way

2021 Women in Construction: Miika Ebbrell, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Ebbrell Architecture + Design

What was your greatest achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? Construction of the interior fit-out for Via Separations, which involved the conversion of a former flag manufacturing building in Watertown, MA into a state-of-the-art wet lab and prototyping space for the company’s revolutionary membrane filtration

2021 Women in Construction: Toni Cavallini, Scheduler, DPS Group Global

Starting out in the construction business, who or what empowered you? My parents have always encouraged me to pursue whatever path I wanted to take. I grew up with two brothers, and we all worked equally at my father’s land surveying business and my mother’s real estate firm.

2021 Women in Construction: Caitlyn Berube, Project Coordinator, Cranshaw Construction

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? As a project coordinator at Cranshaw Construction, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a lot of exciting projects. Currently I’m working on two projects at Assembly Row in Somerville

What is hot hot hot? The need for parking and the lack of it - by David Skinner

The industrial real estate news in the last few years has been somewhat of a broken record. Everybody everywhere has been talking about the same things: Amazon and the rack and stack revolution, cannabis and the cultivation craze

Demand outpacing supply in the Southern New Hampshire industrial market - by Michael Harrington

The positive ripple effects of the growing digital economy continues to be felt throughout the Southern New Hampshire industrial sector and are amplified by the pandemic. As witnessed in other sectors of the economy

Economic indicators suggest a vibrant year for the Greater Portland industrial market - by Justin Lamontagne

Mike Tyson famously said, “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. Well, we were all punched in the mouth in 2020 and our plans went kaput. But in a year when everything we knew as “normal” changed

Industrial market trends: Cold storage, repurposing, and last mile - by Parker Snyder

The industrial market is rapidly evolving as the logistics sector reacts to the effects of COVID-19 and changes in consumer behavior. Speculative cold storage development, last mile facility construction, and repurposing of existing real estate assets

Cannabis is the new “Pot of Gold” for states, investors, producers and consumers - by Dennis Serpone

“Buy Bitcoin…invest in Tesla…you should have bought Moderna!” Well-meaning advice from friends, stockbrokers, or people who already own them and would like to see you push the volume up or, maybe, are just rubbing it in.