MEREDA Announces Local Issues Committee Co-Chair

John Finegan of South Portland, an Associate Broker at The Boulos Company, has been named Co-Chair of the Maine Real Estate & Development Association’s (MEREDA’s) Local Issues Committee.

At The Boulos Company, John works on the brokerage team of Drew Sigfridson, SIOR and Jessica Estes. He works in leasing and sales of Commercial Real Estate in Southern Maine with a particular focus on multifamily. Prior to joining Boulos, John spent four years at SynQor, Inc., a defense contractor based in Massachusetts, as a Regional Sales Manager covering Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Benelux and the UK.

John graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of New Hampshire in 2014 with BS degrees in Finance and Accounting. In his free time, John likes to ski, run, and spend time in the gym. John was born in North Yarmouth, Maine and attended high school at North Yarmouth Academy. He now lives in South Portland with his girlfriend, Elizabeth.

MEREDA’s active Local Issues Committee was created in 2019 to monitor and timely engage on local land use and development matters. The Committee has a two-fold mission: to develop and deploy a proactive educational initiative designed to inform developers across Maine in best practices and tools to minimize local resistance to a real estate development project; and to react to issues that rise to a level of concern that warrant the engagement of MEREDA to influence the outcome of such an issue in a manner that is favorable to MEREDA.

John will co-chair the Local Issues Committee with Tom Schoening of Drummond & Drummond who has chaired the committee since its inception. MEREDA’s Vice President of Operations, Shelly R. Clark says, “John is a valuable member of the Local Issues Committee. He brings a strong and diverse background, and we look forward to working and collaborating with him on behalf of MEREDA’s members on the various issues that the committee addresses”.

For further information, please contact MEREDA’s Vice President of Operations, Shelly R. Clark at 207-874-0801 or visit www.dev.mereda.org.