Bill Keravuori
Founding Partner / Bill@ablecompany.us
Bill Keravuori founded Able Company in 2018 with a values-based business model designed to meet the unique challenges of each project. Able has acquired and commenced redevelopment of commercial properties in South Boston, Nubian Square, and Medford, MA. He has spent nearly 30 years of experience in commercial real estate, first in New York and then Boston.
Prior to founding Able, Bill was a Senior Vice President and Managing Partner at Abbey Group, where he developed and permitted more than 3 million square feet of large-scale Boston real estate – including Landmark Center, the Veridian, Exchange South End (Flower Exchange), 45 Province and the Lafayette Corporate Center.
Bill has degrees in engineering and architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. After college he served in the U.S. Army as a Ranger Combat Engineer.
He lives in the South End neighborhood of Boston.
“I fundamentally believe that real estate done well has a chance to transform neighborhoods for the better. I love the city of Boston. I consider it my city even though I wasn’t born and raised here. I care about the neighborhoods and believe in building consensus to ensure that everything I do is a win-win for the neighborhoods, the city, the development team, and our investors.”
John Everly
Managing Partner / john@ablecompany.us
John Everly brings 25 years of commercial real estate finance experience to Able Company, most recently as Group Manager of Commercial Real Estate for the New England Region of M&T Bank. In that role, he built a team from the ground up that grew the bank’s regional CRE business by expanding its client base to many of the top real estate companies in the region
Prior to M&T, John worked in commercial real estate finance for Santander Bank and the Bank of Scotland.
John has a BA in Environmental Studies and Land Use Planning from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master’s in History from University College of London. John is a 20-year resident of the South End where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
John Martino
Senior Project Manager / johnm@ablecompany.us
John Martino plays a key role in Able Company, bringing a decade of experience in project management in international markets, strategic thinking, and operations to everything he does.
In overseeing myriad aspects of commercial development projects for the Able company team, John draws on his prior experience in recruiting, developing and managing large-scale operational teams to bring value to the firm’s projects.
Prior to joining Able Company, he served as an executive director at a multi-national travel company with offices in 36 countries around the globe. Over the previous 10 years, he was responsible for all strategic operations and project management across Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East.
John earned a Commercial Real Estate certification from Cornell University. He lives in Roslindale Village.
Development Experience
Landmark Center
Project Manager, The Abbey Group
Neighborhood: The Fenway (Boston)
1.5 million sq ft Mixed-Use / 650,000 sq ft Office / 300,000 sq ft Retail, Restaurants, State-of-the-Art Cinema
Creativity
The Landmark Center project spurred the renaissance of The Fenway that began in the late 1990s and continues today. Through creativity and good design, the old Sears warehouse – a national historic landmark – is thriving as a center for retail, office, lab and a multiplex cinema.
The Viridian
Managing Partner, The Abbey Group
Neighborhood: The Fenway (Boston)
350,000 sq ft / 342 Residential Units / Restaurant and Retail / Fenway Community Center
Empowering
Neighborhoods
The Viridian energizes a key block of The Fenway with high-end residential and dynamic retail. It also created a new home for the Fenway Community Center, a developer-created non-profit that was endowed to ensure it would remain in the heart of the neighborhood.
45 Province St.
Senior Vice President, The Abbey Group
Neighborhood: Downtown Crossing (Boston)
370,000 sq ft / 137 Residential Units / Restaurant and Retail
Good Design
The project at 45 Province Street transformed a 14-story mechanical garage into a dynamic 32-story luxury condo tower with retail, adding 24/7 vitality to a resurgent Downtown Crossing – combining cutting edge technology with warmth and charm while increasing parking.
Lafayette Center
Managing Partner, The Abbey Group
Neighborhood: Downtown Crossing (Boston)
615,000 sq ft / Office and Retail
Reimagining
The former Lafayette Corporate Center lost its financial institution tenant, leaving a blank canvas in Downtown Crossing. An eye on changing business needs led to a reimaging of the building and a shift from stodgy businesses to nimble emerging tech firms in this mixed-use makeover.
Exchange South End
Managing Partner, The Abbey Group
Neighborhood: South End (Boston)
1.6 million sq ft / Lab & Tech / Office / Retail
Building Community
The former Flower Exchange was proposed as a next generation life science and technology urban campus offering offices, labs, biotech and biomedical space, retail, public green space and civic and cultural spaces – a new thriving hub in the South End.
Strategic Partners
