2024 Women in Construction: Kimberly Alley, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C.

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My greatest recent professional achievement was successfully resolving a complex multi-party construction dispute as lead trial counsel. Initially, I was the only female attorney of over 20 lawyers in the case.

2024 Women in Construction: Stasha Greenalch, BW Kennedy & Co.

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? For the last year, I have been working on a campus with four buildings, one building with active tenants. I was the project manager on two of the buildings which consisted of a complete gut, including abatement.

2024 Women in Construction: Rachana Kheraj, Bridgeline Exteriors

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months? My greatest achievement in the last 12 months was the creation and full scale launch and operation of two more divisions of our company, wood framing and our capital projects divisions nationally.

2024 Women in Construction: Risa Taylor, Metro Walls

What has been the driving force behind your success in the AEC industry? For me, there is only one answer to this and that is my passion for people. Without our people, there would be no industry. We are fortunate that we don’t work in an industry that is going to lose jobs to AI, BI, or most automation.

Maugel DeStefano Architects completes operating and
central sterilization suites at Sturdy Memorial Hospital

Attleboro, MA Maugel DeStefano Architects has completed a five-phased renovation project at Sturdy Memorial Hospital. The multi-year renovations transformed the hospital’s facilities and enhanced patient care and staff efficiency. This last phase of the project concluded

Using IRC Section 121 the “Principal Residence Exclusion” and IRC Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange in the same transaction - by Brendan Greene

Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 1031 allows a property owner, who holds property for “the productive use in a trade or business or for investment”, to defer paying capital gains taxes if a property owner sells such property, identifies like-kind property within forty-five days of the

Making sense of uncertain markets - by Bill Pastuszek

This New England winter has been less than satisfactory. It’s New England, right? What about the noble winters of yesteryear: snowstorms, freezing rain, skiing, epic shoveling, staking out parking spaces in the city, and dead batteries? Instead, the weather never made up its mind. Thus, the

Spring forward with caution - by David O'Sullivan

I always enjoy the onset of spring. It is a time of warmer weather, plants and trees starting to show signs of life and an overall anticipation by everyone of enjoying the outside. I wish the real estate and development industry was so easy to predict as the coming of spring. We have a Fed meeting

Staffing problems continue to plague industry - by Earle Wason

In my opinion, nothing has changed since I wrote my NEREJ 2024 Forecast article. I still believe in all my 50 years as a Realtor, this may be the craziest and most unpredictable period I can remember. We still have no clue as to the effects of an election year, war in Ukraine and Israel, the turmoil

Small bays for big boys (and girls) part 2: What to expect - by David Skinner

If you have been keeping up with the industrial updates lately here at the New England Real Estate Journal, you might notice that this article is a continuation of the last article where we jumped into the discussion about small bay industrial properties. Last time, we