Case Studies Region: Northeast

Though a most personable sort, Barbara Richardson at least for now is content to be behind the scenes at Adventist HealthCare. The less outsiders take notice, the better job Richardson believes she is doing. Formerly the property administrator at this faith-based, nonprofit healthcare provider, Richardson was promoted last December to program director for non-acute facilities. […]

A once-in-a-century pandemic notwithstanding, Brendon Behan, the director of real estate and facilities at the Center for Vein Restoration, has made the most of 2021. He has 14 new offices planned and an equal number of acquisitions in the works at the Maryland-based medical company that’s expanded from 15 offices to www.linkedin.com/in/brendonbehan/more than 100 nationwide […]

The Concord Resort Hotel was a legendary property in the Borscht Belt of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York known for its casino and for performances by icons like Barbara Streisand, Tony Bennett, Buddy Hackett and Judy Garland. Martin Luther King Jr. even received an award at the Concord in 1963. The hotel closed […]

A horrendous off-field injury to his right arm might have precluded Billy Demory from a baseball career but it’s never kept him from lending a hand in more far-reaching pursuits. Facilities management now his game, Demory has held a series of such positions in healthcare for over 17 years, the last couple at Frederick Health […]

Growing up in Burlington, Massachusetts, Bob Engel Jr. remembers writing in his yearbook that his career goal was to be self-employed, just like his father, Bob Sr. was. There was no other man in the world he respected more. It’s been 41 years since Engel committed to following in his father’s footsteps at the family-owned […]

He’s doing all he can to sustain a sense of normality for academic and social life at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. Safety is Bruce Boyer’s priority as he tells Blueprint during an autumn interview when the small, Catholic liberal arts campus is quieter than usual. Residence hall occupancy is at 1,500, down from its usual […]

It’s a standing joke that marks the end of an academic year at Milford School District SAU-40 in bucolic southern New Hampshire. An ordinary academic year, that is. “Don’t worry,” Bill Cooper is typically told after the students are dismissed in mid-June. “It’ll be a light summer. Just the usual projects on your to-do list.” […]

Even a digital schoolhouse needs a brick and mortar home. However, EVERFI, the Washington, D.C.-based provider of digital online educational content, does not need chalkboards, erasers or old school audiovisual equipment to help its customers learn; it just needed more space. Planning for the move from its old location to the new one began in […]

He was there when the Today Show studio needed a makeover. He regularly rubbed elbows with the cast of Saturday Night Live. When NBC News anchor Brian Williams implored someone—anyone—to stop the rogue fire alarm interrupting a now-infamous 2012 broadcast, it was he who finally shut it off. (You can find the video on YouTube.) […]

On the flat lands of South Florida, it’s visible for miles in every direction. Even makes a landmark for sailors to the east. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood that, come autumn, will be welcoming guests into its new 450-foot tall tower resembling a massive and vertical Gibson Les Paul electric guitar—the […]