According to Cummings Properties, the company has created and filled two brand new management posts. Dennis Clarke, president and CEO of the commercial real estate firm, attributed the new positions to the continued, gradual growth of the north shore developer whose largest rental facilities are the massive Cummings Center in Beverly and similar sized Cummings Park in Woburn.
Erica Wright, an 11-year veteran of the company's operations department, will assume the new position of leasing manager, reporting to leasing vice president Eric Anderson. A new hire, Caryn Goulet, has joined the firm as its first human resources manager.
Clarke said, "The added positions were necessary, not because of any dramatic increase in leasing volume, but rather due to the measured, but steady expansion of the company, which added three new buildings during the last three years." In one of these buildings, Woburn's TradeCenter 128, Cummings also opened a major new restaurant, Beacon Grille, earlier in 2010. The American steakhouse employs 100.
Wright, a graduate of University of Massachusetts Amherst, became interested in real estate during her first post-college job at CoStar Realty Group. In July 1999, she joined Cummings Properties as an associate property manager. Shortly thereafter, Wright was promoted to property manager and, later, operations manager. In this new role, she will take over lease preparation and administrative responsibilities in relation to the company's leases with new clients, allowing Anderson more time for outreach and marketing.
Goulet holds a bachelor of science in Business Administration from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., and is affiliated with the Society for Human Resource Management and Northeast Human Resources Association. Her experience in human resource management spans several industries, including high-tech, physical security, manufacturing, distribution, restaurant, and hotel. She will now add commercial real estate to her resume, as she takes over personnel matters for Cummings Properties, which employs more than 600 in its various entities.
Cummings Properties is a full-service development, property management, and construction firm with 83 buildings in 10 eastern Mass. communities. It leases 10 million s/f of commercial space to more than 2,000 clients of all types and sizes.