Trends Impacting Commercial Real Estate: Insight from Women Leaders in the Industry
Wednesday, September 20
8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Winthrop Center – 115 Federal Street in Boston
$85 per person • Space is limited
*Sponsorships Available
Email Anastasia@high-profile.com or call (781) 294-4530 for details.
Schedule:
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. – Networking
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. – Panel and Discussion
9:30 – 10:00 a.m. – Networking
Meet the panelists:
Kathleen MacNeil
Principal at MP Boston
Marci Griffith Loeber
Managing Principal at Griffith Properties
Amanda G. Strong
Director ‐ Asset Management for MITIMCo, MIT’s Investment Management Company
About the panelists:
Kathy MacNeil
Kathy MacNeil is a principal at MP Boston, the local arm of the internationally recognized developer of luxury mixed-use properties, Millennium Partners. Kathy’s work has involved leading construction and design implementation for several complex urban projects in Boston, including the recently completed Winthrop Center. Modeling the most energy efficient solution for large scale buildings, Winthrop Center is a $1.3 billion mixed-use project in the heart of Boston that is currently the largest Passive House office building in the world.
Kathy’s deep-rooted expertise also served as the driving force behind the 2016 development of Millennium Tower Boston. She has worked on several other Boston projects spanning the last 20 years.
Kathy holds a Massachusetts Construction Supervisor’s License and is a LEED Accredited Professional. She received a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from MIT Center for Real Estate and holds a bachelor’s degree from Wentworth in Architectural Engineering. She serves on the Advisory Board for Historic Boston, Inc., a local preservation organization, as well as the board of directors for Friends of Post Office Square. Kathy is a Trustee at Wentworth Institute, where she is also a lecturer.
Marci Griffith Loeber
As Managing Principal of Griffith Properties, Marci oversees all of the firm’s activities including fundraising, investments and executing the strategies for Griffith Properties Funds. She brings 32 years of experience in principal investing, disposition, valuation and brokerage involving over 525 transactions representing $26 billion of assets. Since 2010, Marci has been operating Griffith Properties as a Women-owned enterprise.
From 1993 to 2009 Marci was an investment sales broker most recently with Cushman & Wakefield and formerly with Fallon Hines & O’Connor/Trammell Crow Company. In the course of her 18-year Brokerage career Marci closed over 500 investment sales transactions totaling in excess of $25.0 billion and was named by Real Estate Forum as one of the country’s “Superstar” investment sales brokers in three consecutive years. While a Principal at TCC, Marci was ranked among the Top 3 Producers nationwide from 1998 through 2000. She was member of the team recognized by the GBREB’s Commercial Leasing and Investment Committee for closing “The Investment Sales Deal of the Year” multiple times: 1994 (for the $64.6 million Latham Farms Power Center sale in Albany, NY); 1995 (for the $163 million sale of Bay Colony Corporate Center in Waltham, MA); 1996 (for the $91 million Druker 1031 Exchange in Boston); 1999 (for the $403 million MGI New England Portfolios) and 2006 (for the $600 million Technology Square transaction).
Community Service and Professional Affiliations include: Member, Urban Land Institute (ULI); Member and Past President, Real Estate Finance Association (REFA); Member and Past President, NAIOP of MA; Committee Member, Champions for Children’s, Children’s Hospital Boston; Member, Real Estate Committee for Archdiocese of Boston; Board of Trustees, Noble and Greenough School.
In 2000, Marci—along with her father and sister—received the Robert Swain Award for her contribution and achievements in the real estate industry.
Marci is a 1989 graduate of Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and a minor in Mathematics. She lives in Weston with her husband, Franz, and her three children.
Amanda G. Strong
Amanda Strong is Director ‐ Asset Management for MITIMCo, MIT’s Investment Management Company, where she is responsible for overseeing a portfolio of commercial real estate assets in Cambridge, MA. Previously, Ms. Strong was a Managing Director in the Asset Management group at Colony Capital, a Director for New Boston Fund’s Urban Strategy America Fund, and a construction lender for KeyBank, NA. She also has twelve years of experience in retail real estate with leasing and research experience from Marshalls, the Woolworth Corporation, and Staples, Inc.
Ms. Strong is a LEED AP Professional and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Babson College, an Advanced Professional Certificate in Real Estate from New York University, and a Master of Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an active member of the Real Estate Finance Association and sits on the board of the Real Estate Executive Council. Amanda is a Babson College trustee, and leads the Babson Trustee Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. She is a founding member and former President of AAREP‐New England and a former Treasurer and board member of Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation. She received the President’s Award from NAIOP Massachusetts, was recognized as a “Woman of Fire” by Banker and Tradesman, and has received the Babson Richard J. Snyder “Distinguished Service to the College” Award.