Mary Kate Daly, EIT joined RND Consultants, Inc. as Director of Real Estate & Transportation Development, focusing on Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) consulting and engineering for agencies, municipalities, and developers. Learn more about RND Consultants at https://www.rndconsultants.net/

The RMR Group Inc. (Nasdaq: RMR) today announced the promotion of Jennifer F. Francis to Executive Vice President, effective immediately. Ms. Francis will now be leading the entire asset management division of RMR, adding the senior living and hotel segments to her previous responsibilities of overseeing asset management for the office, industrial and retail segments and serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of Diversified Healthcare Trust (Nasdaq: DHC). Additionally, with the promotion of Ms. Francis, The RMR Group now has six Executive Vice Presidents, including two women.

Karen Hurd has joined AEI Consultants as Senior Business Development Manager | National Accounts. Ms. Hurd will focus on expanding strategic partnerships in New England and Nationally through facilitating the successful completion and delivery of environmental consulting and due diligence services, site assessments, debt and equity property condition assessments, construction monitoring, industrial hygiene, long term site mitigation, renewable energy services and capital planning for all types of commercial real estate properties.

To better serve our clients with projects in Rhode Island, RBLA, a landscape architecture and site planning firm bringing broad design background and experience with all phases of development to commercial, assisted living, multifamily and affordable housing, and institutional design teams, has been certified as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise with the RI Office of Diversity, Equity & Opportunity. Women Business Enterprises (WBEs) are entities that are at least 51% owned and/or controlled by women. Registered to practice in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, RBLA Design LLC works throughout the region providing feasibility studies, site planning, design, and construction administration services for commercial property owners and managers, private schools, and municipalities.

Cynthia Lacasse and Alma Balonon-Rosen will be panelists on the Builders of Color Coalition, African-American Real Estate Professionals, and the Minority Developers Association Public Financing Panel during their Full-Day Seminar on Commercial Real Estate Finance on June 30th. Below is the link to the registration page as well as the link to the full agenda for the day. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minority-developer-financing-forum-tickets-107429552684 Full Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15KRYx8wGl0BN0UkCKLQO2gyVKKAGo_uxoLXo4yuh91M/edit

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On Tuesday June 16th, Elizabeth Berthelette with Newmark Knight Frank will be speaking at the REFA webinar on what the impacts of COVID look like now in. Learn more at https://www.gbreb.com/REFA/Sites/GB/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=FE120

Sasaki’s principal of interior design, Elizabeth von Goeler, will be speaking on the “Future of the Workplace” and how design firms are thinking about offices post-pandemic with Lisa Nickerson on "Live with Lisa" webinar series Wednesday, June 17th at 12:15pm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMqdTw6LHU

Redgate is proud to sponsor the The Builders of Color Coalition, African-American Real Estate Professionals, and Minority Developers Association’s Land Access Forum on June 2 held virtually via Zoom. As key gatekeepers of the development process, state and city agencies play a substantial role in advancing access to land and projects in the commercial real estate industry. Join us along with our panel of senior government leaders as they present about their work to implement diversity requirements in land disposition and share the upcoming projects and land parcels they will be offering. This event is free to attend - learn more at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/land-access-forum-tickets-105536145452

Top 5 firms specializing in real estate finance & development as ranked by O'Dwyer's: #1 @InkHousePR,#2 @TeamKivvit, #3 @SFPRFirm, #4 @rbbcomm, #5 @Serendipit ... https://www.odwyerpr.com/pr_firm_rankings/real_estate_fin_dev.htm