Cummings Properties employs 24 North Shore students for Summer
Nobo Magazine – 8/01/2015
While many of her friends are spending the summer babysitting or working in retail jobs,
Beverly resident Abigail Biggar is working on a construction site at Cummings Center. She is among 28 students from 12 North Shore cities and towns, including Beverly, Danvers, Peabody, and Salem, who have landed full-time summer jobs at Cummings Properties’ Cummings Center and Dunham Road campuses in Beverly. (More)
Cummings Properties proposes senior housing on Beverly’s Balch Street
Salem News – 7/17/2015
Apartments geared toward the senior population may soon pop up at the Cummings Center.
Slated for 33 Balch St., the proposed four-story building is planned to include around 56 units, some of which would be deemed affordable, Dennis Clarke, Cummings Properties president and chief executive officer, told the News on Friday. (More)
Cummings to build 73 condos in Beverly
Salem News – 6/26/15
Shovels may soon be in the ground near the Cummings Center as its proposed condo project 
has city Planning Board approval.
The 73-unit, six-story condo building, set for the corner of Elliot and McKay streets, will begin construction this summer, Steve Drohosky, Cummings Properties vice president and general manager, said Friday. (More)
Tufts to build over new Green Line station
Boston Globe – 6/22/15
Tufts University is planning to build a major academic building over a new Green Line station in Medford in the next several years.
The school said last week that it had developed initial designs for a 100,000-square foot building of classrooms, lecture halls, offices, and shared space, one-third of which will be built over the MBTA’s College Avenue station. The cost of the project wasn’t yet settled, according to Kim Thurler, a Tufts spokeswoman. (More)
Cummings Foundation reaches milestone of $100 million in local grants
Citybizlist – 6/8/15
Cummings Foundation, Inc. has now awarded more than $100 million in grants to Greater Boston nonprofits alone. The Woburn-based foundation reached this milestone with the recent conclusion of the 2015 grant cycle of its “$100K for 100” program through which $10 million was awarded to 100 local nonprofits in grants of $100,000 each.
Chosen through a competitive review process from more than 350 applicants, the diverse group of grant winners represents a wide variety of causes, including underserved populations, education, healthcare, hunger relief, and homelessness prevention. (More)
CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals moves to Woburn
Biospace.com – 5/4/2015
CONTINUUS Pharmaceuticals, a spin off of a $65 million collaboration between Novartis AG (NVS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), opened a new 3,782-square-foot facility in Woburn to further develop the company’s round-the-clock drugmaking manufacturing process.
The start-up company, which dates back to 2007, manufactures pharmaceutical products for pharmaceutical companies on a round-the-clock basis 365 days per year, hence the play on the continuous. (More)
What is it like to live in Beverly?
Boston Globe – 5/3/2015
Victoria Farnsworth came to Beverly from her small-town home in Maine more than a decade ago, when she enrolled at Endicott College. She fell in love with the city, and with the man who is now her longtime boyfriend, Anthony Marino. Together they own Marino’s Cafe, a popular weekday breakfast-and-lunch spot and catering business now located in the Cummings Center. (More)