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Cummings Properties company history timeline

1970

Bill is best known in the real estate community as the founder of Cummings Properties, the suburban-Boston firm he established 50 years ago, in 1970.

Beginning in 1970, Bill Cummings had a vision for creating places where businesses could grow and prosper, and for supporting the organizations that contribute to a vibrant community.

Shortly after in 1970, Bill sold Old Medford Foods to focus on commercial real estate, and Cummings Properties was born.

1986

To that end, he and his wife, Joyce, established Cummings Foundation in 1986 and began donating about 10% of Cummings Properties’ income to it each year.

One of the earliest major gifts was $100,000 to Boys Club of Woburn in 1986.

1990

Rebuilding The Shoe - 1990's "The Shoe was, and is, the single most important and generally unrecognized, concrete landmark in this country." —Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable

1995

In 1995, the once-proud, but then almost defunct, site of United Shoe Machinery Corp.caught the eye of Bill and his team.

1996

In 1996, Cummings Properties purchased the 2 million-square-foot former headquarters of United Shoe Machinery Corporation in Beverly.

2004

In 2004, Dennis Clarke is named president and CEO of Cummings Properties.

2010

In 2010, TradeCenter 128 is named Real Estate Project of the Year by Boston/SF News.

2011

They did this, in 2011, by becoming members of the Giving Pledge, an organization founded by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates to encourage the world’s wealthiest people to commit to give at least half of their wealth to charitable causes.

2012

Starting with 12 offices, it expanded by 2012 to more than 240 offices across three Cummings locations.

The year 2012 brought the acquisition of 50 Dunham Road, Beverly, a site that was formerly home to Parker Brothers and that Cummings has been developing into a substantial business campus, Dunham Ridge.

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