As 2025 comes to a close, I’m reflecting with deep gratitude on a year defined by focus, discipline, and meaningful progress. This year marked an important milestone for HarveyReed with the successful completion of our 2025 project—a deal that represented far more than a transaction. It was the result of careful underwriting, steady capital, and a clear belief in our ability to deliver a high-quality product to market. 2025 was also a personal and professional inflection poin

As we enter the Thanksgiving season, I find myself thinking about the places that shape us—how the streets where our families began can echo into the futures we build. Not long ago, I spent time researching the exact part of  DeRidder, Louisiana , where my mother grew up during the Jim Crow era. The maps I found revealed neighborhoods carved by segregation, railroad tracks that doubled as boundaries, and an environment where the possibilities available to Black families were

Real estate development has always been an exercise in navigating uncertainty. Yet, for small-scale developers in Greater Boston, this moment—defined by both market recalibration and emerging opportunity—presents a rare chance to take smart  risks that can deliver meaningful impact. Over the last few years, the development landscape has been shaped by pandemic aftershocks, fluctuating interest rates, and volatile construction costs. Many institutional developers have slowed d

When the Federal Reserve adjusts interest rates, the impact extends well beyond Wall Street to the broader economy, including...

At HarveyReed, we build and refurbish “missing middle” housing—what Greater Boston needs most and produces least. Too much of our...