"We've got to get a couple of major wins"

A Boomtown Q+A with Central Park Square General Manager Patrick Sullivan

Interview by Stephanie Nakhleh and Minesh Bacrania

Photographs by Minesh Bacrania

Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

On April 10th, Boomtown sat down with Patrick Sullivan, the general manager of Central Park Square, to discuss the challenges of being a commercial property manager.

Patrick Sullivan, Los Alamos resident and General Manager of the Central Park Square complex in downtown Los Alamos.

Boomtown: Tell us about your personal background. What brought you here to Los Alamos and then into this particular position?

Patrick Sullivan: While I was working toward my MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas, I took an internship at LANL’s Technology Transfer Office. After graduation, I moved back to Los Alamos in January of 2003 and ended up at Los Alamos National Bank doing credit analysis for commercial loans. Not what I thought I’d gone to school for. I was there for about six months, then got on at LACDC [Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation] in A…