Shannah Hall Franckum

With more than two decades of professional experience in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area, Shannah Hall Franckum is a principal in the Cambridge real estate firm, Cambridge Real Estate Company, LLC. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was Director of Leasing and Vice President at Cambridge Development and Investment Associates, Inc. (CDIA). During her tenure there, Shannah Hall Franckum arranged leasing for the Porter Exchange Building Development Project, which transformed the historic 1928 Sears Roebuck Building into a mixed use retail and office building. Ms. Franckum leased space to a number of Japanese tenants including multiple restaurants, Japanese grocery, and retail tenants. Many of these same Japanese tenants remain in the building almost two decades later, now tenants of Lesley University to whom Cambridge Development and Investment sold the building in 1993.

Before beginning her real estate career, Shannah Hall Franckum worked in office management and administration. She started out as a research assistant at the accounting firm Touche Ross & Co. in New York, NY and later became the administrative assistant and personal secretary to the company partner in charge of the New York office. Ms. Franckum also served in managerial administrative functions for an attorney and for KMG Main Hurdman before taking on her role at CDIA.