Boston Globe Article Highlight

CEO Kaitlin McCarthy is highlighted in a Boston Globe article: “The push for women in architecture is building momentum.

There’s been so much support with things like the Massport Model from both the city and state. That was a really big confidence boost for going out and starting my own thing, just to know that there were programs out there that incentivize working with women and minority-owned businesses,” said Kaitlin McCarthy, founder of Ionic Development Co.

After working at firms like Turner Construction, Boston Consulting Group, and HYM Investment Group, McCarthy decided to start her own company last year. Her firm is part of a consortium of a larger development bid for an affordable housing project at Parcel D-4 in the Seaport, as well as the Cronin Development and Street2Ivy push to build 1.9 million square feet of mixed-use development near the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

“I was driven by looking around and not seeing women-owned developers at networking events, panels, etc.,” McCarthy said. “There are so many great women that are executives at companies and in senior leadership, but when it came to the women-owned part, that’s something that I saw was missing in the market.

“Once you see it, you can’t un-see it.”

Read the full article here.

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