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01.31.2021

In Boston Real Estate Times: Jeanne Pinado Joins Colliers as EVP- Boston Capital Markets

Colliers announced the hiring of Jeanne Pinado as an Executive Vice President in the Boston office. Jeanne brings over 30 years of real estate experience to the growing Colliers Capital Markets team, joining investment sales and equity placement leader Frank Petz.

01.31.2021

In Bollyinside: Real estate firm Colliers hires longtime nonprofit leader in Roxbury

or decades, the people who made large real estate deals in this city were mostly men and white people. But that is slowly starting to change. The movement towards greater diversity gained some momentum this week with the appointment of Jeanne Pinado as Executive Vice President at Colliers, a leading Boston real estate company. The longtime executive director of Madison Park Development Corp. – a Roxbury-based non-profit organization – Pinado will be a rare black woman to reach the top ranks of the city’s major real estate companies. She joins Colliers’ capital markets team – which sets up financing packages for large deals – at a time when city and state officials, and even private owners, are granting greater importance of attracting a more diverse range of investors for often lucrative commercial sales and construction projects.

01.27.2021

In The Boston Globe: Real estate firm Colliers hires longtime Roxbury nonprofit leader

For decades, the people who put together big real estate deals in this city have mostly been male and white. But that is slowly starting to change. The move toward greater diversity gained a little momentum this week with the appointment of Jeanne Pinado as an executive vice president at Colliers, a prominent Boston real estate firm. The longtime executive director of Madison Park Development Corp. — a Roxbury-based housing nonprofit — Pinado will be a rare Black woman to reach the senior ranks of the city’s major real estate companies. She’s joining Colliers’ Capital Markets Team — which puts together financing packages for large deals — at a time when city and state officials, and even private landowners, are placing a greater premium on attracting a more diverse array of investors for often-lucrative commercial sales and construction projects.

01.20.2021

In the Bay State Banner: Get on your feet with VLA Dance classes

VLA Dance, a Black-owned contemporary dance company affiliated with Hibernian Hall and Boston Center for the Arts, has launched a new series of online dance classes every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday through March 2021. The classes are designed not only with physical fitness and dance technique in mind, but to provide holistic healing and mental rest during the winter months.