Graffito SP

Graffito SP is a Boston-based retail real estate advisory and investment firm that specializes in ground-floor spaces. It works where master planning, retail leasing and branding meet, planning active street-level spaces by elevating creative retail operators and amplifying community character. Services include neighborhood strategy and urban design as well as branding and creative work, all guided by a local-first approach rooted in the context of each place.

The firm’s roots go back to 2007 in Cambridge, when its team, then working through predecessor CityRetail, was assembled to lease 25,000 square feet of empty retail space at the base of the Watermark, Kendall Square’s first non-academic residential tower. Bringing local restaurants, shops and public-realm improvements there led to more work across Kendall Square and Cambridge, and later in Boston and Somerville. The firm now works throughout Greater Boston and in select cities nationwide.

What to Know

• The team brings together experience in commercial transactions, development, urban planning, small business advocacy, community engagement and graphic design.
• The firm aims to use development to spur social and economic investment that addresses systemic inequities.
• Organizations it highlights include the Boston Public Market, CommonWealth Kitchen and the Kendall Square Association.