Features Real Estate

It’s uncommon for a builder to surrender part of a choice parcel to a municipality, but that’s what Bayview Group did when developing a lot on the outskirts of the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario. “Not because of arm-twisting,” says Sameer Gulamani, the firm’s gregarious managing director and general counsel. “We did it to serve […]

Adam Doganieri never expected to work in real estate. When he started his career as an engineer at Boeing, he knew something was missing, but it took him awhile to figure out what it was. Searching for that elusive puzzle piece, Doganieri began attending law school in the evenings. He graduated in December 2009, amid […]

Eight years into his legal career, Joshua Bird had met very few clients who’d even consider anything beyond a very cautious, low-risk tolerance—until he worked with the young men who started Hawkins Way Capital. Headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, the private equity real estate firm manages investments for family offices and institutions.    Bird recalls, the […]

As far as Ronnie Mitra is concerned, affordable housing shouldn’t look any different from newly built, market-rate housing. And Ingerman’s properties prove his point. Take, for example, The Willows at Flemington Junction South, a three-story New Jersey housing community built of brown and grey stone and featuring white, slate and cobalt-painted wood. Or The Willows […]

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, most people only went to stores for essentials, like food and toilet paper. This meant businesses like gyms, nail salons and bakeries saw very few customers for months. With revenue and foot traffic rapidly decreasing, many businesses began looking for ways to break leasing agreements. At […]

Richard Sullivan learned how to frame houses as a carpenter in the late 1980s. Now, he provides a different type of framework for Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty. As general counsel for the brokerage, Sullivan is helping it expand through eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod. As a licensed real estate instructor, he provides the 12 hours […]

In 2020, as the entire world changed, Abby Sacunas decided to make a personal change. After 15 years at Cozen O’Connor—an international law firm where she served as a partner—she decided to join GMH Associates as a senior vice president, general counsel and compliance officer. She’s the first woman to hold the role at the […]

In 1973, JCPenney was operating more than 2,000 locations throughout the U.S. Its catalogs—often novel-length and featuring thousands of products from furniture to formalwear—were a fixture on many a living-room coffee table. Since its founding in 1902, the department store giant had become a bona fide icon of American commerce. But in 1974, a massive […]

Paula Beck believes everyone deserves a safe, warm place to live. Better yet if it’s affordable. As senior vice president and general counsel for Minnesota-based Sherman Associates, she leads acquisition and financing for housing projects. The real estate development company has developed over 11,700 multifamily units throughout the Midwest and Colorado and owns and manages […]

When the general counsel of CoreSite suggested the company publish an environmental, social and governance report in 2018, most of the team had never worked on one before. According to Todd Blair, an assistant general counsel, the general counsel had heard from law firms that the reports would soon be commonplace. So, working with leaders […]