Published in Digital Journal The highly anticipated 2023 Northeast Sustainable Communities Workshop (NSCW) hosted by the Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast (BCONE), is set to gather environmental experts, consultants, developers, attorneys, academics, and real estate professionals for two impactful days of inspiration and innovation. This premier regional brownfield conference is scheduled to take place on [...]
Published by Inside Public Accounting, August 25, 2023 By Warren Kirshenbaum As CPA firms try to reimagine their businesses by offering services that extend beyond traditional tax returns and assurance work, the combined effects of an ongoing labor shortage and a lack of expertise can often hold them back. That’s why Engineered Advisory (EA), an offshoot of [...]
Led by Ambrosino, They’re Hitting The Ground Running Three women are now the highest-level leaders of the BCONE Executive Team ready to tackle 2023 with vision, execution, and results -- all with an emphasis on networking and education. By Steve Dwyer To Melina Ambrosino, the newly elected President of BCONE, the collaborative [...]
New England Chapter, Certified Commercial Investment Members Michael Chase of the New England Chapter of CCIM interviews Cherrytree’s Melina Ambrosino about opportunities for developers to take advantage of state and Federal tax credit programs to reduce project costs. Commercial developers can use the credits for themselves — or, for many programs — sell [...]
The Epoch Times, August 12, 2022 Updated: August 15, 2022 By Autumn Spredemann Tax credits have been a go-to move for the U.S. government to incentivize renewable energy project developers for years. Yet substantial profits are ending up in the pockets of the corporate banking industry. As of last year, the renewable tax equity market represents [...]
New England Real Estate Journal Spotlights, Oct 29, 2021 by Warren Kirshenbaum After 10 years in business, the Cherrytree Group has been fortunate to have been able to grow to a level of strength and stability: recently surpassing $100 million in tax credits placed on behalf its clients. It’s a total team effort — but [...]
Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast, Aug 10, 2021 By Steve Dwyer Three BCONE members are making their mark -- and in a hurry. They’ve progressed from membership to committee chairs and/or board members in short order, and are now tasked with recruiting, and appealing to, younger industry professionals within a fledgling BCONE mentorship committee. The [...]
The Addison Times, May 29, 2021 “It’s like day and night,” construction manager Bill Rasner said while surveying renovations at Old Shelby High apartments earlier this year. The project, an initiative of complex owner Purple Vetch Properties, LLC, was the first significant infrastructure upgrade since at least the early 1990s, when the building transitioned into [...]
Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast, April 15, 2021 By Steve Dwyer How does a young brownfield industry practitioner climb so far up to the mountaintop -- and do it so quickly? At 33 years old, Melina Ambrosino, Executive Vice President of Newton, Mass.-based Cherrytree Group LLC, will let you in on a little secret: be [...]
Business Wire, March 11, 2021 BOSTON-The Cherrytree Group — a tax credit consulting and syndication firm based near Boston — announced a significant milestone by surpassing the $100 million mark in tax credits obtained and placed on behalf of real estate developers and investors nationally. Since its founding in 2011, the company has specialized in [...]
