Most of my career has been spent on the unglamorous side of real estate — first as a Cambridge zoning attorney, then negotiating Central Square’s overlay amendments through the City Council, then through five years of hearings and neighborhood meetings before a wall was drawn at 907 Main. The work that decides whether a project happens is rarely the work that gets celebrated.
In those rooms, the firms making the strongest case for a project were rarely the firms still operating the building five years later. Capital traded the project to development, development traded it to management, and by the time someone was accountable for occupancy and capex the underwriting was three teams old. The operating work is where returns are made or lost.
We built 907 Main the other way around: entitlement, financing, construction, and operations under one roof. The hotel opened in 2024 as The Lark Cambridge; we still own and run it. That experience became Thane & Reeve. We acquire what we are willing to operate, develop what we intend to hold, manage in‑house, and invest meaningful personal capital in every transaction.
We will be small. We will be slow. We will walk from deals other firms will do.
That is the firm.
