James Cropsey

James Cropsey has been involved in real estate for over 42 years. Through a Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) referral he worked with the Hartford City planner concerning the highest and best use for land created after the placement of a river in an aqueduct near Pope Park in the Broad Street neighborhood , which was a blighted community. His recommendations resulted in high rise apartment buildings being built using the concrete aqueduct abutments as foundations. He was also instrumental in the selection of a parking garage next to the Railroad Station in downtown Hartford to replace a building considered unsafe for occupancy. Jim went on to receive a Master of Business Administration, with concentrations in urban planning and finance, from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. After Babson, Mr. Cropsey worked for Winterthur Insurance Company of Winterthur, Switzerland. There he prepared a comparative study of the U.S. and Swiss real estate systems and was involved with the conversion of a monastery in Klosters, Switzerland to a resort hotel and the creation of a shopping plaza and ancillary parking garage with a river running through it near Zurich, Switzerland – utilizing his experience from the Hartford, CT projects. In Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Cropsey helped redevelop a knitting mill site to a health club and hotel complex. He also assisted in the development of a self-storage center on a contaminated parcel formerly occupied by a waterfront bulk oil storage terminal. His other waterfront experience concerns developing houses in South Freeport, Maine directly abutting South Freeport Harbor. Other commercial work involved The Village Square of Plymouth, New Hampshire. This is a contaminated property that was in disrepair and virtually vacant when acquired. It is now fully leased. Mr. Cropsey also designed and obtained permits for the conversion of a contaminated former Sunoco automobile service station with surplus land into a commercial strip in Bay Shore, New York. Jim was a licensed real estate broker in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His regional commercial brokerage business is based in New Hampshire and has the web address of http://www.cropseycommercialwaterfronts.com/ He has evaluated projects, performed feasibility studies, appraised real estate and business entities, managed IRS Section 1031 exchanges, and negotiated purchase and sales agreements and leases both in his capacity as broker and principal. He is a graduate of the Shelter Institute of Bath, Maine. Jim has located and developed sites for large corporations as well as for smaller operations. His experience includes working with three national cinema chains and an international cinema group, two major automobile manufacturers, and several international restaurant chains. He also teaches a course on international business as an adjunct professor for Southern New Hampshire University, formerly known as New Hampshire College, in Manchester, New Hampshire. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate with Honors in Economics from Trinity College, Mr. Cropsey has co-authored an as yet to be published book about the intricacies of purchasing real property at auctions in the United States. Jim currently manages real estate investments consisting of commercial properties throughout the Northeast. He is constantly acquiring or redeveloping properties, many of which are contaminated with hazardous waste or require monitoring and mitigation. Mr. Cropsey is Zone Chairman for New Hampshire for Ducks Unlimited, the premier wetlands conservation organization in the world, is a member of the Tilton Conservation Commission, and is a member of Grace Presbyterian Church, Laconia, NH.

• Markets
  Boston, Long Island (New York)
• Property Types
  Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, SportsAndEntertainment, Specialty, Healthcare
• Awards
  Best Building Renovation ~ NH Main Street Program Outstanding Achievement ~ Litchfield County Board of Realtors Distinguished Service Award ~ Ducks Unlimited First Flight Award ~ Ducks Unlimited
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• Education
  Southern New Hampshire University, Adjunct Professor of International Business Babson College, MBA, Finance & International Business Trinity College, BA with Honors in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa