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"Typically Cummings Properties developed buildings up to about 250,000 sf. The Shoe was almost five times that size and, indeed, one of the largest rehabilitation projects in the country."
"Today, fully renovated and 78% occupied, Cummings Center has been deemed a success. Its range of corporate, technology and research tenants runs in size from a few hundred feet to 150,000 sf. Not many sites in the country are quite as notable as Cummings Center in terms of overall size, historic signifigance and public sentiment."
"By offering amenities such as health clubs, day care, travel agencies, dry cleaning, restaurants, postal services, hair salons, medical offices and even a choice of full-service banks, the developer has created a level of comfort not normally available in most free-standing work environments."
Real Estate Forum
March 1999
"A factory in Beverly, Massachusetts that architecture critic and historian Ada Louise Huxtable calls 'the single most important and generally unrecognized, concrete landmark in this country' has been rescued from abandonment, restored, and converted into a thriving office research park."
"Given the condition of the complex at the time of acquisition, the Cummings Properties renovation required a combination of astute economic evaluation, risk tolerance and civic pride."
"Having turned this apparent white elephant into a successful development project, utilizing tax incentives and other government inducements as well as their own financing (no bank would provide funds), the Cummings organization hopes that its success might inspire other developers to assume the many challenges of restoring our abandoned industrial buildings."
Concrete Industry Board Bulletin
Vol. 35 No. 1 February 1999
Joe Clements
Banker & Tradesman
February 1999
"Cummings Properties has already announced its plans to build a 548,000 square foot luxury office building at 100 Sylvan Road."
"A new site plan for the property shows an impressive seven-story building running mostly parallel and fairly close to Routes 128/I-95."
"Because of the high quality building and superb location, he said, it would be a signature building for the steadily growing local firm, which started out at 10 Henshaw Street, Woburn, in 1966."
March 2, 1999
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"The Shoe is now the Cummings Center, saved, restored and transformed, shrewdly and sympathetically, into nearly 1.4 million square feet of handsome commercial space for business and industry."
Cummings Center is "the single most important and generally unrecognized concrete landmark in this country."
"...it has been a miraculous rebirth. For those who prize an architecture still invisible to many and treated as expendable by most, this is more than a success story; it is a dream come true."
Ada Louise Huxtable
The Wall Street Journal
October 2, 1997
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Cummings Endows $1.5 Million Chair in Entrepreneurship On an early Monday morning in June, William Cummings, A58, owner by many estimates of approximately 7 million square feet of mostly office space (that's greater than the 4 million total controlled by his alma mater) climbed aboard a bulldozer to help clear a piece of property he is developing outside of Boston.
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John LoDico
Tuftonia
Summer 1998
