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 Commercial Real Estate
Making Some Noise
SR Commercial Realty Is Finding Its Place in
the Market
JBy George O’Brien
eremy Casey had decided it was time to move on from the banking business.
He had already been with several area institu- tions, working in commercial lending and, to a large degree, commercial real estate, and was seeing the
industry change — and consolidate — around him. He was with Chicopee Savings Bank and doing well there, but could see the handwriting on the wall in the
form of a seemingly inevitable merger with Westfield Bank, one of his former employers.
“I didn’t want to be one of those people who jumped from bank to bank and to higher positions in those banks and then to another bank,” he said, adding that he had decided it was time to think about a change.
It would come first with some entrepreneurial undertakings, including an ill-fated venture called Name Net Worth, an app that would essentially measure what he called the ‘ripple effect’ from networking encounters. When that initiative failed, he took a big leap into commercial real estate and a managing-partner position with Springfield-based SR
“In
commercial
real estate, no
building is the
same, and no
buyer is the
”
     same.
 Commercial Realty, a company soon to mark five years in business.
It’s a growing, evolving venture that is making some noise in the market — figuratively but also quite literally. Indeed, Casey said that one trait that separates this com- pany from other players in the market is its progressive and aggressive — some would say loud — marketing of properties.
“We’re noisy — you can’t get away from us,” he explained with a laugh, noting that the company has used large signs (the largest allowed by local ordinances), drone footage, videos, and other methods for bringing attention to properties in the portfolio, which is domi-
 Jeremy Casey, managing partner of SR Commercial Realty
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