-: There's property management
and there's the building, construction,
development component and for that,
the fact that our offices touches both daily,
it's pretty neat because it's never boring.
We might sit there and grind through a lease one day,
specifics of it, working with a potential tenant.
Locally we own the Collegiate Square,
formerly Collegiate Square, now North End Shopping Center
with Buffalo Wild Wings and Five Guys.
That is for university space on the upper floors
but per the town regulations,
first floor's gotta be retail.
So we've got the Five Guys and the Buffalo Wild Wings
and the bake shop and so on.
And those leases, you might sit one day
and just read a lease and two weeks later
you're implementing a design
and building out that space which gets into
the construction side of things to bring that tenant in
and so I think to see the full cycle
and be able to touch it all is
what is most gratifying for me.
The skill set you can learn or certainly you come
with some knowledge and then you can learn
the extras that you don't know
specific to the role or to the job.
But my biggest piece of feedback or advice
in my three years at the foundation is
managing people, expectations,
understanding different personalities.
And I can kinda go back to my
graduate work in building construction.
We did a lot of group work in that two year program.
And a lot of us were always asking, why so much group work?
Why assign groups?
But professors then told us and now it makes a lot of sense.
It was to get that opportunity and that exposure
to working with folks that you didn't know.
Everyone does things different ways,
everyone has a different opinion and a different strategy
to get to the end result and so
in completing the recent project for advancement
again, I would say that obstacles may be a negative term
but understanding people, expectations, personalities
and doing your best to work with
all of those different types can be
very challenging in the work environment.