David Kirk, CRE, was recently quoted in the Boston Globe. The article focuses on adaptive reuse in Boston, where historic buildings are refurbished into modern businesses and popular chains.
“I think initially it was very tough for national chains that were used to developing on pods in the suburbs with their cookie-cutter demographic screens to consider downtown, period, much less a historic neighborhood,” Kirk said. “And some of them have stumbled and crumbled and walked away.”