Michael A. Lozano

Place. Culture. Environment. Those are the three factors that Michael A. Lozano considers the most important when he develops safe and reasonably priced projects for residential or retail use. “I am committed to building healthy, affordable communities that most effectively respect culture, place and environment,” he said in his 40 Under Forty application. 
He is director of real estate development for the Pawtucket Citizens Development Corporation, a position he has held since May. He previously worked as director of real estate development and senior project manager for Community Works Rhode Island from 2004 to 2009.
In addition, in 2006, he formed his own development company, TwoFifty LLC, which completed the historic rehabilitation of The Grant Building in downtown Pawtucket, an adaptive reuse of the former W.T. Grant Co. Department Store into a mixed-use collaborative for design-oriented businesses and retail space, with apartments on the second floor.  He is managing partner of TwoFifty LLC.
For the Pawtucket Citizens development group, his projects include Blackstone Valley Gateway, an eight-building, 48-unit affordable rental housing and commercial project, part of Rhode Island Housing’s Keepspace initiative. This Pawtucket project is part of a much larger effort centered around commercial- area revitalization and transit-oriented development, according to Lozano.
His other recent projects, all in Providence, include a seven-building, 47-unit rental housing complex with commercial and community space in the Broad Street area and a 16-unit condominium complex consisting of three historic Victorian homes on Parkis Avenue.
Lozano has won awards from the Pawtucket Preservation Society, the Providence Preservation Society, the R.I. Historic Preservation & Heritage Commission and the National Housing Rehabilitation Association.•