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At a breathtaking pace, with rapid progression of slides and capsule descriptions of the plethora of startups and other recent entrants into all aspects of the real estate industry, Steve Weikal, Head of Industry Relations at the MIT Center for Real Estate, described a business that is changing so fast it’s almost impossible to keep up with. Weikal’s message was that technology is enabling a record-speed wave of innovation, creating new products services, and ways of doing business.
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CREW Boston's June luncheon and annual meeting at The Intercontinental Boston featured a trailblazer in the male-dominated sports industry, Molly Fletcher, empowering women to carve out their own path for success. Her message inspired, using humor and personal stories of her own experiences to connect. Molly shows how you can find fulfillment without sacrificing personal or professional goals.
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Boston Experts See Room Left to Run in Market Recovery. As we approach the mid-year mark, professionals are fielding more questions from clients who experienced a slower-than-expected first quarter, and are wondering what the second half of ’17 will bring. Some of those questions were discussed at May's CREW Boston luncheon in downtown Boston titled, 2017 Capital Markets Outlook: Are We in the 8th Inning?
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CREW Boston’s March luncheon featured special guest speaker and Boston newcomer, Ann Klee, vice president of General Electric’s global environment, health & safety group and head of Boston development and operations. Klee has spearheaded the headquarters’ relocation and shared the “story behind the story” of one of Boston’s biggest real estate transactions.
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Massachusetts has undergone tremendous change since it first began to recover from the 2008 recession. Since that time, the region has become an epicenter of the life sciences industry, gained traction as a hub of innovation for technology, has seen an entire new neighborhood begin to materialize in the Seaport, and emerged as a prime target for global investors. In early March CREW Boston and CCIM New England partnered to host a panel discussion at One International Place to examine those trends.
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Rosemary Sansone, President of the Downtown Boston Business Improvement District, said her organization in its four years of existence the BID’s strength has been that it is “nimble, flexible,” and, “That’s been our greatest success – listening to people.” Sansone reviewed the success over four years of the BID, which is funded by an assessment on the businesses in the Downtown Crossing district. The budget of the organization is $6.7 million, spent about a third on keeping the neighborhood clean and about a fifth programs and hospitality.
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CREW Boston members had the opportunity to tour 888 Boylston Street, which is deemed the most sustainable building in Boston. Members enjoyed a video highlighting some of the key features of the building before Dave Stewart and Mark Denman took them on a guided tour of one of the unfinished floors to see the open floorplan and then down to another floor, which had an outside terrace overlooking Boylston Street.
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CREW Boston’s November luncheon at Mandarin Oriental Boston focused on the City’s planning efforts leading into 2030 and beyond. The event centered around the question of who we want to be as a city in 15 years and how these planning efforts can help us to get there. The event kicked off with an overview of Imagine Boston 2030, the City’s planning initiative which is working to define a vision for Boston leading up to its 400th birthday and beyond and provide a roadmap to realize that vision. As Boston’s first citywide plan in 50 years, Imagine Boston 2030 will create a framework to preserve and enhance Boston while embracing growth as a means to address our challenges and make the city stronger and more inclusive.
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CREW Boston’s October luncheon at Boston’s InterContinental focused on the future of Kendall Square, the most innovative square mile in the world, with its dense cluster of life science, technology and education sectors thriving off of each other. Our panel included Bob Coughlin, president and CEO of MassBio; Tom Andrews, executive vice president of Alexandria Real Estate Equities; Bill Kane, senior vice president of BioMed Realty; Michael Owu, director at MIT Investment Management Co.; and Michael Cantalupa, senior vice president of Boston Properties. Tina Cassidy, executive vice president and chief content officer at InkHouse served as moderator.
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