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By Laurie Schreiber, Mainebiz A small community event for Tom Watson’s memoir, “Your Turn,” has grown into a fundraising partnership between the author, Longfellow Books and Project Home. Watson is the founder of Portland real estate investment, development, construction and management company Reveler Development and a 2023 Mainebiz Business Leader of the Year. His memoir was published in March by Longfellow Communications in Portland. On July 15, Longfellow Books in Portland

Community book event raises over $500; future sales of ‘Your Turn’ to benefit Project Home A small community celebration of Tom Watson's memoir, Your Turn, has grown into an ongoing partnership between the author, Longfellow Books, and Project Home. On July 15, Longfellow Books in Portland hosted an author event featuring Tom Watson in conversation with Jessica James of Longfellow Communications, the book's publisher. The event included talks by Longfellow Books owner Ari Ger

On Friday, May 29, Tom was featured as a VIP caller on a panel discussion by Maine Calling, held in recognition of National Stroke Awareness Month. Watson joined neurological surgery provider Dr. Robert Ecker and neurohospitalist and stroke specialist Dr. Jane Morris of MaineHealth, along with vascular neurologist and stroke care director Dr. Avirag Goswami of Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, to discuss one of the most urgent health challenges facing Americans tod

By Tina Fischer, Mainebiz Reveler Development founder Tom Watson has authored a memoir about the early, difficult and dirty — some might add crazy — days of renovating Portland apartment buildings in the 1990s, when much of the city was more gritty than pretty. In his debut book, “Your Turn,” Watson shares the humor in the calamitous. He tells his tale in a series of short vignettes, with chapters entitled: “Rats and Worms,” “Stink Pipe Gladiators,” “Nobody Move and Nobody

By Peter Van Allen, MaineBiz Developer Tom Watson, principal of Port Property, has a total of 2,000 housing units in greater Portland and Wilmington, N.C., and another 2,000 in the construction or planning stages. Maine is in a housing crunch and there’s a need for housing in both the affordable and market-rate categories. Even as Portland adoption of the Green New Deal, rent control measures and exclusionary zoning have sent other developers running for less-regulated cities

By the Boulos Beat In this episode, guest-hosting for Greg Boulos is Partner and Broker Nate Stevens, as he sits down with Tom Watson, founder and owner of Port Property Management. Founded with his father in 1993, Port Property Management owns and operates over 2,000 units in Greater Portland, as well as Wilmington, NC, Providence, RI, and Lowell, MA. Tom oversees management of over 100 unique properties in just the Greater Portland area – the majority of them in Downtown Po

By MaineBiz Developer Tom Watson has been doing projects in Portland since 1993, including Fisherman’s Wharf, but in the past three years, he’s focused on West Bayside. Projects include the mixed-use development at 82 Hanover St. and a 171-apartment building with ground-floor retail at 52 Hanover. Both are on former Portland Public Works properties. He’s also redeveloping nearby Bayside Village into another 196 workforce apartments and, in Biddeford, developing 71 units at th