| Developer: Cathartes Private Investments | Patrick Gallagher Bio |
| Overview of Burd Building Company | Peter Cummin Bio |
| QC Ventures LLC |
Developer: Cathartes Private Investments
A private real estate development and investment company founded in 1992, Cathartes Investments specializes in acquiring, developing, and managing multi-family residential and commercial properties. Since its inception, Cathartes has developed over three million square feet of residential and commercial real estate worth over $500 million throughout New England and the New York Metropolitan area.
Cathartes has been building homes for over a decade and brings its comprehensive team of real estate professionals to each community it creates. From initial concept to completion, Cathartes manages all aspects of development with top-notch industry professionals from planning, permitting, financing, architecture, construction, marketing, and property management. Commitment to quality, attention to detail, and innovative design are the cornerstones of the Cathartes promise and these principles have earned the trust of their homebuyers and customers time and time again.
The company is particularly active in prime urban Transit Oriented Development sites in Boston and Greater New York City. They have built a solid reputation on transforming underutilized urban areas into vibrant neighborhoods where people live, work and play. Cathartes Investments is currently developing over 1,000 homes in communities adjacent to train stations. These neighborhoods are based on the principles of Smart Growth and New Urbanism, encouraging a pedestrian-oriented lifestyle.
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Overview of Burd Building Company
Burd Building Company has served the Northeast as a Construction Manager and General Contractor since 1984 and has a proven track record of effective and efficient performance, having completed over a hundred major projects in the institutional, industrial and commercial markets.
The firm provides Design/Build and Pre-Construction services, Construction Management and General Contracting services to the private sector.
The company's financial strength, bonding capacity and reputation for intelligent, honest and efficient project management will compliment Stonington Lumber Condominiums requirements.
At Burd Building Company, we approach construction management as a team effort between Owner, Designers and Builder. Effective communication, planning, coordination and execution are the components we implement in order to assure success of each project. Attention to detail, as well as established cost, quality and scheduling controls allows us to successfully achieve the goals of our clients.
QC Ventures LLC
Local partners Michael Blair & Bill Gash have been involved in successful local developments. They helped develop Broadway School, a 21 unit condominium conversion in Mystic, CT. They renovated, own and operate Quiambaug Cove, a 15,000 sq ft office project in Mystic, CT. Currently they are working on developing 12 Canal Street, a joint venture with Cathartes. This seven unit condominium and 6000 sq ft retail office development is opening in the summer of 2007 in downtown Westerly, RI. Michael and Bill have also worked with Cathartes on their 41 Unit waterfront condominium development in New London, CT
Patrick Gallagher Bio
Patrick Gallagher started his interior design business in 1993, with one brilliant client and a part-time assistant. The size of the projects has grown enormously since then, and he's had to expand into two offices, a new one next to the D&D Building in New York in addition to the original location in historic Stonington, Connecticut. Other than these healthy changes of scale, his business remains very much as it was at the beginning; providing sumptuous classic design with a modern sensibility, unique resources and flawless service.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Gallagher receive a degree in Fashion Buying and Merchandising from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1975. After one stint in retailing, and another in fashion design, Gallagher returned to the United States to turn his talents to the interior design industry. He headed merchandise promotion at Harris/Kosmas, Ltd., and then went on to work independently for a broad variety of clients, ranging from Laura Ashley, Stow Davis/Steelcase and Ralph Lauren, to publications like the New York Times, New York Magazine and Esquire, as well as individuals like Carolyne Roehm. His work included all aspects of visual presentation, including art direction and editorial styling, window display and interior design.
In 1989, Gallagher went to F. Schumacher & Co. as Director of Visual Merchandising. He transformed the firm's nineteen showrooms into elegant, functional business centers, and played a key role in reestablishing Schumacher's overall identity amongst the leaders of the industry. In 1993 he left to start his own firm.
Patrick Gallagher Decoratives & Design, Inc. has been, since its inception, a full service decorating business in the tradition of London's Colefax & Fowler. In addition to comprehensive design services, a singular array of antiques, and access to the best textiles, wall coverings and floor coverings, he also offers a collection of furniture, lamps and decorative objects all designed by Gallagher himself and produced by various artisans around the country. With support staff in both locations, Gallagher serves his urban and European clients from NYC, while looking after his New England projects and fabrication sources from his home base in Connecticut.
A Director since 2003 of the Royal Oak Foundation, the U.S. membership affiliate of the British National Trust, Gallagher chairs the organization's Timeless Design Awards program each year. To mark the tenth anniversary in May, the Royal Oak Foundation Honors Deborah Devonshire, The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire for her long and successful stewardship of her stately home, Chatsworth.
A new honor and responsibility for Gallagher is a Board Member of the Reciprocity Foundation, which helps homeless young people out of public assistance programs and into school and productive independent life.
Gallagher lives between New York City and Stonington with his partner.
Peter Cummin Bio
Peter Cummin is an English-born landscape architect and horticulturist, who is principal of Cummin Associates, Inc., a design firm based in Stonington, Connecticut, which he founded in 1985. Mr. Cummin has designed residential and estate gardens in more than twenty-five states, Canada and the West Indies, working together with today's top architects and interior designers. Mr. Cummin's lifetime interest in horticulture and garden design, and his dedication to his clients prompts him to visit his projects often, even after gardens are completed. His current projects include gardens in Hobe Sound, Bloomfield Hills, San Francisco, Aspen, Washington, D.C., Boston, Locust Valley, and Greenwich.
Mr. Cummin's gardens have been featured in Architectural Digest and House and Garden. He is a frequent lecturer for the Garden Club of America. He has taught in the Radcliffe Landscape Seminar Program and with leading horticulturists Michael Dirr and Allan Armitage in their workshops for master gardeners. Mr. Cummin has his Bachelor's degree in horticulture and Master's Degree in landscape architecture
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