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108 Main, a 29-room luxury residential building set to open in summer 2021. Every one- bedroom apartment has been expanded to now include a den/office so owners can work from home. "Success in our organization will never be defined by the number of zeros after one," says Lupoli. "It is defined by the positive im- pact we make on the lives of those people in our organization and the lives of those people in the communities and surrounding areas we go into." For most of her development career, Sarah Barnat, president of Barnat Develop- ment LLC, has worked on large-scale real estate projects in Boston. But in July 2016, she won the bid to construct Holmes Beverly, a six-story, 67-unit multifunction housing development on Rantoul Street in Beverly. "Our project came on the heels of the total revitalization of Route 1-A and some sur- rounding real estate, and the city was eager to continue Rantoul Street's renaissance," says Barnat. "Specifically, they wanted a mixed- use development around the 500-car parking multipurpose real estate projects is Chelmsford native Sal Lupoli, CEO of Lupoli Companies. Lupoli, who launched his career with a family- run pizza business, earned early recognition for Riverwalk in Lawrence, a Live/Work/Play development located on a 40-acre abandoned mill complex. Lupoli now has several projects in the works, including e Heights Haverhill, set to open this October. "e mayor of Haverhill was trying to get our company to go to Haverhill, based on seeing what we did in Lawrence," says Lupoli. "So my vision was to develop mixed- use real estate along the Merrimack River." To distinguish his property from the area's predominantly brick buildings, Lupoli erected a cutting-edge glass and steel structure not far from the MBTA Commuter Rail and Routes 495 and 93. On the first floor of the ten-story building will be Lupoli's upscale coastal Italian restaurant Bosa. His Bosa Bar will serve drinks and nibbles on the building's rooftop with a pandemic-appropriate open-air deck. In between are the 42 posh, one- and- two-bedroom apartments, each with soaring ceilings, hardwood floors, and modern living spaces. Commercial tenants occupy the second floor, including Northern Essex Community College's culinary school and the Lupoli Family Institute for the Culinary Arts, which the Lupoli company helped fund so the public could take cooking classes. e Lupoli company also paid to complete the wooden boardwalk running adjacent to the building along the Merrimack River, since the city lacked funding. Another Lupoli venture is e Dascomb Road Project in Andover slated for completion in spring 2021. "It's a sixteen- acre parcel, which will have retail, a fitness center, grocery store and restaurant, but no housing," says Lupoli, adding that instead, the remaining 400,000-square-foot space is for pharmaceutical production. "We are sixteen miles outside of Kendall Square [in Cambridge] and perfect for manufacturers who, because of COVID-19, don't want to be in Boston." In deference to the pandemic, building plans now include installing a mile- plus track around the facility and outdoor exercise equipment. Because of the virus, Lupoli has adjusted other property plans, including the layout of Andover's Madison on garage that the MBTA had built." Since Barnat had a long working relationship with the MBTA from previous projects, including when she served as executive director of the Urban Land Institute Boston/New England, she was a shoo-in to develop Holmes Beverly. "We wanted to create a building in the suburbs that was as high-quality and efficient as the kind of building you'd find in downtown Boston," says Barnat. To wit, all studio, one- and two-bedroom units have lofty ceilings, high-quality appliances, granite counters, and gas-fueled kitchens with individual heat and hot water systems. Some apartments have balconies and soaking tubs, and all have air filtration systems that are EPA indoor air qual- ity plus rated, a particularly important feature given the new novel coronavirus. Sixteen of the units are "workforce housing" for ten- ants making 80 to 110 percent of the area's median income. "It allows us to have a diverse socio-economic mix in our development with everyone paying market rent and enjoying a boutique building," says Barnat. Anchoring the complex's ground floor is PHOTOGRAPHS BY CHRIS M. ROGERS (TOP), BY JAZ BONNIN/COURTESY OF BARNAT DEVELOPMENT LLC (OPPOSITE PAGE TOP AND MIDDLE), BY PETER VANDERWALKER/COURTESY OF FKM BRANDS(OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM)