Category: Spotlight Content

2021 Year in Review: Kerri Spurr Gallaway, Senior Vice President, A.W. Perry, Inc.

2021 Year in Review: Kerri Spurr Gallaway, Senior Vice President, A.W. Perry, Inc.

December 31, 2021
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021? In 2021, our team was successful in securing leases with several great new tenants and in signing long-term renewals and expansions with existing tenants for office space in Boston and on the South Shore.
2021 Year in Review: Parker Snyder, Director of Business Development, ARCO New England

2021 Year in Review: Parker Snyder, Director of Business Development, ARCO New England

December 31, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic? Opportunities abound in distress. As the retail and hospitality sectors suffered, developers pivoted to industrial. We were well positioned to be the beneficiary of a building boom.
2021 Year in Review: Bill Pastuszek, MAI, Owner, Shepherd Associates LLC

2021 Year in Review: Bill Pastuszek, MAI, Owner, Shepherd Associates LLC

December 31, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic? There are really two, and they are related. One is that people respond to seemingly insurmountable challenges extraordinarily well, if allowed to think things through. The second is that markets adapt to change in surprising and unforeseeable ways.
2021 Year in Review: Carol Todreas, Consultant, Todreas Hanley Associates

2021 Year in Review: Carol Todreas, Consultant, Todreas Hanley Associates

December 31, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic? The biggest lesson learned during the pandemic was how important it is for people to congregate with other people. This in turn led to thinking about how our streets and neighborhoods could work better so that people could easily have places to enjoy others.
2021 Year in Review: Thomas Sweeney, SIOR, Owner/Principal, Sweeney Real Estate & Appraisal

2021 Year in Review: Thomas Sweeney, SIOR, Owner/Principal, Sweeney Real Estate & Appraisal

December 31, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic? Early in my career I learned that the building and management of a successful business comes down to creating supportive relationships, both on the community and team level.
2021 Year in Review: Peter Forman, President & CEO, South Shore Chamber of Commerce

2021 Year in Review: Peter Forman, President & CEO, South Shore Chamber of Commerce

December 31, 2021
What are your predictions for your industry in 2022? Chambers can expect to see many new start-ups and new employees in the next two years – many will want to use their chambers to build their platforms. The challenge will be to balance service to individual members
2021 Year in Review: Micheal Mattos, Executive Director, Affordable Housing and Services Collaborative, Inc.

2021 Year in Review: Micheal Mattos, Executive Director, Affordable Housing and Services Collaborati...

December 31, 2021
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021? The completion and opening of the Walker School Apartments in Taunton earlier this fall. The brand new 40-unit apartment community that includes an enhanced coordinated service model
2021 Year in Review: Spencer Macalaster, Executive Vice President, Risk Strategies Company

2021 Year in Review: Spencer Macalaster, Executive Vice President, Risk Strategies Company

December 31, 2021
What are your predictions for your industry in 2022? Our industry will become more dependent on web-based consulting and broker services, including the implementation of block chain based solutions.
2021 Year in Review: C. Scott Schwefel, Attorney, Shipman, Shaiken & Schwefel, LLC

2021 Year in Review: C. Scott Schwefel, Attorney, Shipman, Shaiken & Schwefel, LLC

December 31, 2021
What was your greatest professional accomplishment or most notable project, deal, or transaction in 2021? Our firm again successfully negotiated many significant reductions in property taxes for property owners in 2021.
2021 Year in Review: Tom Struble, Director of Commissioning, Qualification & Validation, DPS Group

2021 Year in Review: Tom Struble, Director of Commissioning, Qualification & Validation, DPS Group

December 31, 2021
What are your predictions for your industry in 2022? 2022 is going to be a whirlwind. Recent roll-outs of vaccines set a new standard for speed to market, and there’s more work in life sciences than I’ve ever seen.
2021 Year in Review: Kyle Gaffney, Director of Business Development, CP Management

2021 Year in Review: Kyle Gaffney, Director of Business Development, CP Management

December 31, 2021
What is the best advice you have received, and who was it from? My college wrestling coach said often, “Let’s whistle while we work.” It’s originally from a Disney movie, which always made us laugh but I think it is great advice. It’s important to have some fun during the day and keep everything in perspective.
2021 Year in Review: Sal Lupoli, CEO/President, Lupoli Companies

2021 Year in Review: Sal Lupoli, CEO/President, Lupoli Companies

December 31, 2021
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic? During the pandemic, we learned how vital it is for residential communities to have ample amenity space. When we opened the final phase of the Riverwalk Lofts this year, we added over 10,000 s/f of amenity space