Leggat McCall Names Three New Partners

Boston – Leggat McCall Properties LLC is adding three new partners.

Boston – Leggat McCall Properties LLC is adding three new partners.

Robert J. Palumbo, Dante Angelucci, Jr., and Karl R. Neubauer will each have the title of Senior Vice President following promotion.

Palumbo held senior positions at Beacon Capital Partners and Equity Office Properties before joining Leggat McCall in 2006. At Leggat McCall, he has been project manager for the master-planning and permitting of more than one million sf of development at the Christian Science Church’s 14-acre campus in Boston.

Angelucci combines a construction background and a law degree and joined the company in early 2008. He has provided development consulting services to a $1 billion equity fund headquartered in Boston and is currently leading a management team on development of the $100 million Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke. Angelucci was previously at Meredith & Grew and Cathartes Investments.

Neubauer has managed permitting, design, and construction for life sciences, technology, and institutional projects since joining Leggat McCall Properties in 1996. He oversaw the recent expansion and renovation of the Boston Children’s Museum, and he was responsible for the first LEED Platinum interior project in Mass. — Leggat McCall Properties’ own rapid, 15-day transformation of its 10,000sf headquarters at 10 Post Office Square.

Bucking a downward trend in the development industry, Leggat McCall Properties has been expanding. The firm has started two large projects in 2010. This marks the first time in five years that Leggat McCall, a privately owned company, has expanded its stable of partners, now numbering 13.

Examples of Leggat McCall’s recent growth include the $100 million, Green High-Performance Computing Center in Holyoke and Hanover Insurance Company’s City Square development in Worcester.

Among other major Leggat McCall projects are BioMed Realty Trust’s Center for Life Sciences, an $800 million, 700,000sf lab and research-development facility in Boston; Partners Health Care/Massachusetts General Hospital’s new, 530,000sf Lunder Building; Brandeis University campus; the Regent at Battery Wharf, a $220 million hotel and luxury condominium complex in Boston and Hebrew Senior Life’s NewBridge on the Charles, a 162-acre, 960,000sf continuing-care retirement community in Dedham.