Steve Samuels
President & CEO
Samuels & Associates
As an active real estate developer since 1984, Steve Samuels has built or redeveloped over fifty projects in seven states. With his founding of Samuels & Associates nearly twenty years ago, he positioned a company that prides itself on success through building enduring relationships with its business partners, its focus on creating developments that enhance local neighborhoods and communities, and its impeccable reputation among the residents, community groups, and businesses affiliated with its projects.
One of the first in the country to return new development to the urban core, Steve pioneered Boston's retail renaissance with Dorchester's massive South Bay Center and Roxbury's Grove Hall Mecca. Developed in 1991, the $65 million 440,000-square-foot South Bay Center was hailed as one of Boston's first urban retail developments in over twenty years. The Grove Hall Redevelopment Project, undertaken in 1997 at the request of Mayor Thomas Menino, was a pro bono project motivated by the desire to resuscitate a stagnant retail area that had been neglected for decades. The development is currently one of the most vibrant retail centers in Boston.
Steve is integrally involved in revitalizing the historic yet underutilized Fenway area into a thriving 24-hour mixed-use urban village, developing projects such as Trilogy and 1330 Boylston Street. Eight hundred residential units and 100,000 square feet of retail space are currently underway across multiple projects in and around this district. In addition, the firm currently holds a portfolio of thirty-six shopping centers and is redeveloping a substantial number of these properties.
Steve serves on the board of directors of the Boston Police Athletic League, a non-profit organization dedicated to the positive development of Boston's youth. He is also actively involved in fundraising for Boston Medical Center and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in real estate & finance from Ohio State University.