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October 20,
2010
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The Cooperstown
of Real Estate
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The lineup
keeps getting better for our Nov.10 Health Care Real Estate Summit:
Weinstein, West, Papola, Kane, Nelson, Sullivan, and more. Marriott
Copley Plaza. Space is limited, so sign
up now!
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Some industry
groups honor buildings, others laud individuals. The Massachusetts Building
Congress has a different approach. It inducts into
its Hall of
Fame companies that have a long track record of
contributions to the building industry, clients, and the community.
Last week, sports journalist Jackie
MacMullan hosted MBC’s annual gala and induction
ceremony.
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We snapped Robert Brack
and William
Brack of Hall of Famer Barker Steel. They run New
England’s largest fabricator of reinforced steel used for
construction. The company, a fourth-generation
family owned company, started business in 1922 in Watertown and is
now affiliated with Harris Rebar and working on the new World Trade
Center in NYC. MBC spokesman Mike
Reilly says Barker has always been a stand-out
corporate citizen. Robert founded the Joan H. Brack Charitable Foundation
that has donated about $750k to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
He has also sponsored scholarships
for UMass
students.
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Representing
newly minted Hall of Famer CBT Architects, we snapped Robert Brown,
Richard
Bertman, Margaret
Deutsch, Phil
Casey, and Ken
Lewandowski. Mike Reilly says that CBT has been a pioneer in
Boston for historic
preservation and adaptive re-use. In fact, among its
latest projects—with London-based Norman Foster + Partners—is the $350M
expansion and renovation of the Museum of Fine Arts complex in
the Fenway. It also designed Liberty Mutual's new Back Bay HQ and Atlantic Wharf
for Boston Properties, which incorporates historic structures into a
new office and retail complex at the waterfront. It's been active in
the President’s Committee on Historic Preservation and the National
Trust for Historic Preservation as well as the South Shore Habitat for Humanity.
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At the table for
Shawmut Design
& Construction, the evening’s third Hall of Fame
company, were Guy
Tlapa, Randy
Catlin, Ryan
Lynch, and Frank
Hayes. One of their team, Jim Ansara,
couldn’t attend because he was in Haiti building a hospital.
Apparently, that’s not so unusual at Shawmut, an employee-owned
company with offices in Boston, NYC, Providence, and New Haven. It's on lots of “best of” lists
like BBJ’s highest charitable
volunteer-hours-per-employee and several “best places to
work”
lists. Meanwhile, Mike Reilly says in Roxbury, where Shawmut was
founded, it supports programs that help local youth get into the
construction industry, such as YouthBuild. Of course, it's also busy
putting up buildings like the vertical addition to the Tufts School of Dental
Medicine, completed last year.
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Your Christmas
Gift Will Pale in Comparison
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Harvard
Business School received the largest international gift
in its 102-year history: $50M
from Tata Companies, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and
the Tata Education and Development Trust. The group has a combined market cap of $80B.
The gift will go toward funding academic and residential
buildings on campus. HBS hopes to break ground on Tata Hall
for its executive education program next spring. Also a few days
ago, the University announced that next fall it will open its
first lab for
innovation and entrepreneurship in a former WGBH
building on Western Avenue. Above, we snapped one of the old GBH
haunts. That open
“field” next to it is actually the site where Harvard
had to halt
construction of a major new academic project.
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October
Skills
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Some Boston
design pros have focused on sharpening their business skills
this month. At a recent seminar on interviewing, sponsored by IFMA
International Facilities Management Association at KI downtown, were
BU student Elyse
Dupre, KI’s Bryan
Cox, speaker Joanne
Linowes, KI’s Ana
Lucia Gannon, Partners Healthcare’s Joanne Katz,
and Aerotek’s Sheila
Schaffzin. Joanne shared tips on how to interview
to get new business, work with team members, and explain projects to
public officials, community groups, lenders, and other decision
makers. Joanne suggests: exhibit competence in what you say, be confident
in how you say it, and be gracious
in switching your viewpoint to engage your audience.
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