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Nobody Had a Reason to Leave
An afternoon at Edgewater Park, and what Cleveland’s lakefront development — the North Coast Connector, the stadium site, the riverfront plan — has to get right.We came for a late lunch and left at dusk, which was not the plan.Edgewater, early October, one of those afternoons that doesn’t announce i
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The City That Came Back
Thirty years watching Boston and New York reinvent themselves taught me what a comeback looks like. This morning I saw the same machinery at work at home.This morning I spent an hour walking downtown with my camera.I was born here. Raised here. Left. And came back, three decades later. The Cleveland
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The Summer List
Some years the summer list comes together by accident — whatever happens to land on the table by Memorial Day. This year I made one on purpose. Eight books across the four questions I keep returning to: money, place, work, and life. A mix of fiction and nonfiction. Some new, some I’ve been meaning t
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Boots on the Ground
When I started my first business at 25 — a residential brokerage in Boston with 30 agents, two offices, the first major condo development in a transitioning Roxbury neighborhood — I didn’t know what I was signing up for. Nobody does.A few weeks ago I posted a line on Threads: Most people want the re
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Nobody Had a Reason to Leave
An afternoon at Edgewater Park, and what Cleveland’s lakefront development — the North Coast Connector, the stadium site, the riverfront plan — has to get right.We came for a late lunch and left at dusk, which was not the plan.Edgewater, early October, one of those afternoons that doesn’t announce i
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The City That Came Back
Thirty years watching Boston and New York reinvent themselves taught me what a comeback looks like. This morning I saw the same machinery at work at home.This morning I spent an hour walking downtown with my camera.I was born here. Raised here. Left. And came back, three decades later. The Cleveland
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This Is What Building Looks Like
Last Monday I was in Manhattan by 8 AM. Three properties — different buildings, different neighborhoods, different ownership situations — each one a data point in the market analysis work that underlies everything we do. Delta Lounge on both ends: a lifesaver when the day starts before the city wake
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Eyes Up. Eighteen Years.
Friday was March 6th.Eighteen years ago, I signed the paperwork that made Clarendon real.I’ve been sitting with that number since. Not because milestones demand reflection. But because eighteen years is long enough to look back and actually see something.Where It StartedI became a commercial real es
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What Hawaii's Housing Market Taught Me About Fundamentals
Last week marked a first for me: my first on-site assignment in Hawaii.Fourteen hours of flying each way. Forty-eight hours on the Big Island. A compressed timeline to validate market analysis and inspect properties in person—applying methodology I’ve used for 30 years to a market I’d studied remote
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Patterns
There’s a phrase I keep coming back to lately:patterns have a way of repeating themselvesI’ve been working in real estate since 1984—which means I’ve lived through multiple market cycles, policy shifts, and neighborhood transformations. I’ve watched neighborhoods decline and revive, seen lending sta