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Strategic Workspaces to use DIRTT modular wall system for 290,000 s/f fit-out at 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Strategic Workspaces LLC., a leader in the field of contract furniture said that the company has been retained to provide DIRTT modular walls for the fit-out of 290,000 s/f at 111 Huntington Ave. in Boston's Back Bay on behalf of MFS Investment Management. The deal is one of the largest such in New England this year. As regional distributor of the DIRTT modular wall system, Strategic Workspaces is providing DIRTT private office fronts, electrical components from Spider Manufacturing and DIRTT demising walls for MFS. Occupancy on a dozen floors running between Nos. 2 and 35 at the tower is slated for next autumn. The DIRTT moveable wall system that will be used at 111 Huntington Ave. is created by Canada-based DIRTT Environmental Solutions and answers the growing demand among office tenants for flexibility in their layouts. It also fulfills the call for sustainability in the materials incorporated, including extensive wood elements. Randy Saville, Strategic Workspaces project executive is joined by project manager Al Buckley and Kaitlyn McKenna, a Wentworth Institute of Technology graduate and LEED-certified designer.
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ABC-Mass. chairman’s message:  Rent control isn’t the answer to our housing crisis - by Luiza Mills

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As you may know, Massachusetts voters will be weighing in on a number of ballot initiatives in November. Among them is a proposal to impose the nation’s strictest statewide rent control policy. I’d like to tell you why the ABC MA Board
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