Ralph Parent attended Boston College and, among many other activities, was a four-year defensive starter for the Boston College football team. 

Always interested in real estate, Mr. Parent began a mentor-mentee relationship with current business partner, Merrill Diamond, that resulted in his complete immersion in the field. As a real estate agent, he learned about his chosen profession and soon became a real estate broker creating Parent Realty Advisors (MBE). It wasn’t long before his entrepreneurial spirit led to founding Pederson Consulting (MBE).

Pederson Consulting eventually became one of the key members of a number of development teams who wanted to draw upon Mr. Parent's experience and talent working with Boston’s Inspectional Services Department regarding permits and approvals. His activities in this regard include coordinating and managing all activities related to securing approvals from Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeals and Building Permits.

More recently, Ralph Parent and Merrill Diamond, in conjunction with Urban Spaces, created a company called The Boston Partnership For Community Reinvestment, LLC, (BPCR) in order to partner with Boston’s Mayor's Office of Housing (MOH) in the creation of affordable housing on scattered sites in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan. Mr. Parent's efforts proved to be the key to sourcing local, minority and women general contractors, subcontractors, and vendors in order to comply with MOH’s requirements for a socially responsible approach to development.

The above led to the creation of PARENT+DIAMOND, LLC, (MBE), a real estate development company. Its mission is to bring the type of opportunities frequently mandated in the public sector to our private sector work. Based on a strategic alliance with Urban Spaces, a company with whom Diamond had an ongoing relationship and development projects, PARENT+DIAMOND, LLC, has the operational and financial foundation to accomplish this mission, the basis of which is shared by Urban Spaces.