DOING GOOD BY DOING GOOD

At its kick-off party for R.E. Action 2010, a real estate industry year of community service, the non-profit organizer Building Impact got together sponsors and participants at the Fort Point Channel offices of ADD Inc. We snapped BI?s Paul Teplitz with Boston Art?s John Kirby (who supplies art for corporate spaces) and TRO Jung|Brannen's Bob Hoye. Paul says the year of community service will help the real estate industry get closer to their neighborhoods.
Sponsors support R.E. Action 2010?s 22 events, from an Earth Day clean up of the Charles River, to getting school supplies to kids, to the Jan. 30 renovation of the New England Center for Homeless Veterans. Boston Business Journal?s Dorrian Cohen Fragola, Boston Art?s Kelly Lynn Filocco, Bulfinch Properties' Leaura Levine, and Paradigm Properties' Kevin McCall.Not a sponsor, but still there for morale support: Building Impact?s Sarah Gudernatch.
Showing us that CRE is more than developers, brokers, and architects, we snapped folks from another R.E. Action sponsor, Waltham Services, the pest control folks: Eric Brown, Clarke Keenan, and Douglas Smith. They do their share to keep buildings inviting by keeping out those perennial party crashers.

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