"If that doesn't work, what else do you do?" Stephen G. Kliegerman, the executive director of development marketing at Halstead Property, says developers began offering incentives in November.
The executive, Jean-Francois Mulé, worked at CableLabs as an executive of technology development, where he developed software that measured the quality of video transferred over cable Wi-Fi networks, according to his LinkedIn business profile.
Cambridge signalled the scale of its ambitions when it added 50 staff to its fundraising office and hired Alison Traub as executive director of development and alumni relations last year.
Today, it might be $600 to the low $700s, said Stephen G. Kliegerman, the executive director of development marketing for Halstead Property, which is handling the Douglass.
But other major participants are black, including Ms. Lee Leslie D. Farrelll, another producer; and Essie Chambers, the executive director of development for the N network.
The bride, 28, is the executive director of development in the United States division of Televisa, the Mexican media company with offices in Los Angeles.
"There are several development opportunities right in the vicinity, and as the economy recovers, I think Citygarden will make those sites a lot more attractive," said Barbara Geisman, the city's executive director of development.
She has a Master of Divinity from SMU Perkins School of Theology where she later worked as the executive director of development, media and alumni relations.
In the developing world, the problem is more severe, said Nigel Chapman, chief executive of the development group Plan International.
Still, Sheena Wright, chief executive of the development corporation, was pleased.
