Category: Massachusetts

Before COVID-19, downtown retail had been sliding downwards. A few restaurants and stores were hanging on, but the trajectory was headed south. Now with post- COVID-19 lifestyle changes, old-style retail anywhere has lost its market appeal.

Right now retail is not first and foremost on most of our minds, that is, unless you are in the retail business. Yet, the retail scene goes on and there are, as usual, some interesting happenings to report.

Who is your mentor and how did he influence/help you in your career? My mentor is entrepreneurial and mechanical mastermind Bob Neilan. His belief in me

Planning and updating your commercial property or your downtown is timely. We are in a stable economy and in spite of Amazon’s Treasure Trucks and the growth of e-commerce, the majority of shoppers prefer to shop in physical stores.

Kaplan Construction is performing construction management and design/build services for a 8,500 s/f, two-story building for Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills.

Millennials, Baby Boomers, artists, entrepreneurs and techies are moving out of cities into suburban and exurban communities. Building owners, business owners and civic leaders are wondering how to take advantage of this demographic change and attract new tenants to dated looking streets and storefronts?

The recent closings of under-performing malls and stores are viewed as a cleansing. While it is still not over, there is considerable positive retail activity, and mostly because of Millennials. They are the largest demographic

Swampscott, MA After a lengthy approval process, and the demolition of an abandoned 100,000 s/f school building, Groom Construction is well underway with the construction of a new 60,000 s/f condominium project for owner Fisherman’sWatch Condo- miniums, LLC.

Donald Provencher, P.E. Title: President Company: Provencher Engineering, LLC Location: Merrimack, N.H. Place of birth: Manchester, N.H. Family: Linda (wife); 2 sons - Jordan (10) & Jason (9) College: BS Civil Engineering (UNH); MS Geo-environmental Eng. (UMass. - Lowell)

 & M Brown Co., Inc., (JMB) has reached an agreement with Joy Electrical Co., Inc., of Quincy, Mass., whereby JMB assumed all of the Joy Electrical's operations effective January 2nd. At that time, all current