David Pogorelc - Boston Real Estate Developer

David Pogorelc has been heavily involved in Boston-area real estate for over 20 years. During this time he's experienced the extreme undulations that best describe the Boston real estate market over the past two decades. Before founding Core Investments, David was a founder and partner at Helm Investments, a real estate investment firm focusing on residential Boston properties. Prior to co-founding Helm, he was investing in undervalued real estate and enhancing and creating value through a variety of development projects. Over the past two decades, David has developed a significant contact base in the Boston market that has contributed to the success of Core and its partnerships. In 2001, David was involved in the acquisition of a wireless Internet network company to provide high speed Internet access to Core's properties. USAINET now provides Internet service to many small businesses and buildings as well as Core's holdings. David is constantly exploring new ideas to add value to Core properties. David Pogorelc graduated from Bryant College in 1985 with a B.A. in Marketing and minor in Economics. He likes chocolate chip cookies. - 3 years ago

David Pogorelc, the principal of Core Investments Inc., has been promoting America and the American dream of home ownership for the past two decades. If you had a cup of coffee with him he would tell you “We live in the greatest country in the world! Where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are our constitutional inheritance. We have the freedom to make choices and live the American dream of home ownership.” Dave Pogorelc has successfully developed, revitalized and renovated many Back Bay and Beacon Hill buildings employing contractors, masons, artisians, painters, landscapers in historically reviving old mansions, creating condominiums for first-time homeowners. Dave has great admiration and appreciation for the history of our country and our Founding Fathers. Dave is a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln and the civil rights movements of the past two centuries. - 3 years ago

The American flag is David's ultimate and daily inspiration. Old Glory symbolizes a new glory for him - as all his buildings and sites fly the American flag. He constantly looks for undervalued buildings that can be transformed into optimized mixed-use properties. Turn of the century and historic buildings are one of his main focuses. Projects David is involved in tend to benefit investors and residents alike. With the greater good of his fellow man always in mind, Mr. Pogorelc strives to make a positive difference in his neighborhood while improving precious historical dwellings and making them benefit current communities. - 3 years ago

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co. has leased a 5,360-square-foot building and 32,632 square feet of land at 340 Providence Highway in Westwood. The property is located along Route 1 on the Auto Mile. - 3 days ago

An 8,213-square-foot, single-story building in Needham Center recently sold for $2.2 million. John F. Malone Realty Trust sold the property at 934-948 Great Plain Avenue to 934-948 Great Plain Avenue Realty Trust which is managed by First Cambridge Realty Corp. of Cambridge. - 3 days ago

After recording more than 1.2 million square feet of negative absorption in Boston in the first half of 2009, third quarter registered 17,000 square feet, indicating the market deterioration may be subsiding, according to Colliers Meredith & Grew. - 5 days ago

Boston mayoral candidate Michael Flaherty blamed the Menino administration for the stalled project that has left a hole in the ground at Downtown Crossing. "We need... - 9 days ago

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OXFORD — Members of the town Economic Development Advisory Committee lent their support to a renewed effort to bring a resort casino to the town Tuesday, unanimously voting to recommend that the Board of Selectmen support the venture. - 10 days ago

Ex-Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez has struck out - at least in the Boston real estate market. Ramirez, now a Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder, has slashed the price on... - 2 weeks ago

The City Council is stepping up efforts to land a movie production studio in Boston. Councilors Stephen Murphy and Bill Linehan want the city to reap more benefits from... - 2 weeks ago

California real estate investment trust Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc., operator of more than 35 properties in Cambridge and Greater Boston, reported net income of $18.2 million for the third quarter, compared to $19.3 million for the same period last year, a 5.8 percent decrease. - 34 hours ago

A complaint filed by federal prosecutors in Boston alleges that Troutman Sanders real estate practice chair Leonard Grunstein participated in a scheme to accept $50 million in kickbacks from pharmaceutical vendor Omnicare in order to provide services to a nursing home company in which he and two other defendants are principals. - 3 days ago

When it comes to optimism about commercial real estate, Las Vegas received an unsurprising negative mention in a national report issued Thursday by the Urban Land Institute and accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The institute and accounting firm issued their Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010 report, based on interviews and surveys involving some 700 industry professionals around the ... - 2 days ago

Girls @ the Black Cat. Photo by Holly Le. You'd be forgiven for thinking that the Real Estate / Girls show Tuesday night at the Black Cat was an extended tribute to The Clean, an open-mic homage to the under-known but influential Kiwi punk band. Hell, the show might have been a two-set-long cover act, the way both bands indulge in heavy chorus pedal and simple chord progressions and fancy-free ... - 2 days ago

US commercial real estate to bottom in 2010: Survey US commercial real estate to bottom in 2010: Survey - 2 days ago

Commercial real estate industry investors and professionals remain decidedly negative, colored by distress over prospects for an extended period of anemic demand and costly de-leveraging, according to respondents of the Emerging Trends in Real Estate® 2010 report, released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the Urban Land Institute . - 2 days ago