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NAI Hunneman’s Evans and James complete 12,008 s/f sublease with Cambridge Semantics

Boston, MA NAI Hunneman has completed a 12,008 s/f sublease transaction with Cambridge Semantics. The enterprise analytics and smart data management software company is relocating its operations from 141 Tremont St. to 500 Boylston in the city’s Back Bay.

NAI Hunneman executive vice presidents Peter Evans and Steve James represented Cambridge Semantics in the transaction, while Anne Columbia of The Columbia Group represented the sub-landlord.

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“This move was a great option as it allows Cambridge Semantics to continue with their growth and it provides them true plug and play space,” said Evans.

“We’ve nearly doubled our employee headcount in the last year and it was important for us to find a space that accommodates our continued expansion plans. Peter Evans and the NAI Hunneman team found the perfect space for us. The office layout and the included furniture gives our company more efficient space while limiting any significant disruption in our day-to-day operations,” said Cambridge Semantics vice president of finance and operations, John O’Sullivan.

Cambridge Semantics (CSI), the Smart Data Company, is an enterprise smart data discovery and exploratory analytics company. It enables customers and partners to rapidly build and deploy Smart Data Lake solutions based on its award-winning Anzo Smart Data Platform (Anzo SDP). IT departments and business users gain better understanding and accelerated data value through the semantic linking, analysis and management of diverse data whether internal or external, structured or unstructured. The Anzo Smart Data Lake solutions are delivered with increased speed, at big data scale and at a fraction of the implementation costs of using traditional approaches. The company is based in Boston.

Headquartered in Boston, NAI Hunneman is a leading provider of commercial real estate services to corporations, institutions and the private market. NAI Hunneman is a member NAI Global, the premier network of independent commercial real estate firms and one of the largest commercial real estate service providers worldwide. NAI Global manages a network of 6,700 professionals and 375 offices throughout the world. NAI professionals work together with its global management team to help clients strategically optimize their real estate assets.

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