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5 Questions with Bruce Percelay, Founder + Chairman, Mount Vernon Company
Published September 28, 2021 in Development, PressBruce A. Percelay is chairman and founder of Mount Vernon Company, a real estate investment and development firm known for improving communities and investing in sustainable, award-winning design. PCA and Mount Vernon Company have worked together on mixed use, residential and hospitality projects totaling more than 750,000 square feet over the past decade. The latest collaboration is Arthaus, a five-story residence with 74 apartments and a separate four-story building with nine condominiums.
Apartment buildings are bringing work perks home by putting food lockers in the lobby
Published March 14, 2021 in Press, OtherFood lockers and pods are making apartment lobbies feel more like the office break room.
A Maturing Real Estate Frontier in Allston
Published March 10, 2020 in Press, OtherBruce Percelay’s development firm Mount Vernon Co. was an early arrival to Allston’s multifamily boom, and it continues to build apartment and condo projects on Boston’s western frontier.
8 Hotels Perfect for Group Travel in 8 Major Cities
Published November 18, 2019 in PressThe best hotels if you're traveling in a large group but don't want to risk an Airbnb.
A $150-a-night South End hotel is declared the best in Boston
Published October 11, 2019 in PressOn the surface it looks like another run-of-the-mill list of reader-picked favorite hotels, resorts, cruise ships, and the like. But the Monday release of Condé Nast Traveler’s annual Reader’s Choice Awards offered up a true shocker to Boston’s luxury hotel world. Not only did an inexpensive hotel in the South End make the list — it topped it.
‘The Greatest Story Never Told’: Mount Vernon Founder Bruce Percelay At Bisnow’s Boston Hotel Summit
Published September 16, 2019 in PressTrue to its name, the Revolution Hotel is ushering in a new breed of hotel stay. Despite being in the South End, one of the most desirable quarters of Boston, the hotel prices many of its small-format rooms at around $120 per night, a steal compared to its neighbors in Back Bay and downtown that regularly charge triple that amount.
Percelay Announces Completion of $120 million Nantucket Cottage Hospital Capital Campaign at the 2019 Boston Pops on Nantucket concert
Published August 16, 2019 in Press, OtherFundraising effort marks the largest of its kind in American history.
NANTUCKET (August 12, 2019) – In front of the thousands gathered at Jetties Beach for the annual Boston Pops on Nantucket concert, Nantucket Cottage Hospital capital campaign chairman Bruce A. Percelay announced the successful completion of the hospital’s $120 million fundraising effort to build the island’s new healthcare facility. It marked the culmination of the largest community hospital fundraising campaign ever conducted in the United States.