Photo Courtesy Cruz Cos.
John Cruz, President and CEO of Cruz Cos, based on Boston, is the winner of the Legacy Award of the New England 2025. He will be presented at the March Printing Number of Enr East, the Realized Magazine that now includes this region.
Founded in 1948, Cruz Cos has passed through a carpentry subcontractor and framing in one of the main real estate organizations of 100% in the country. Business construction, development and construction services and multi-generation management, family property, are especially focused on affordable housing.
Apart from building and managing thousands of housing units throughout new England, Cruz has worked to dismantle the legacies of the reduction in the sector, the displacement and the divestment, while promoting economic empowerment and equity and the equity and equity. Community wealth in New England black and brown communities. The five most recent Cruz Cross development projects generated 78% of the dollars of the project to minority business companies. These projects also had 83% of minorities and 65% of local residents working in jobs.
During the 60th anniversary of the firm, Cruz Cos has used 70% of MBE contractors and consultants and 70% of minority workers in all construction projects, which look like millions of dollars in minority communities such as Boston’s Roxbury and Dorchester Barrios and New Bedford, Massa.
Cruz has also provided scholarships worth hundreds of thousands of dollars at various universities in Massachusetts, allowing students from neighborhoods with economic challenges to attend university and learn advanced buildings trade skills that allow them to enter the industry.
For more information on Cruz and his work, read the February New England February issue.
Justin Rice is East publisher.
