Who are you? Jeff Filipov, from Hamilton, MA. I have lived there with my family for 15 years and we bought a fixer upper and did most of the work ourselves. I was always into working with my hands and fixing things, and building with wood since I was about 8 years old. What is your business? Northshore Barn Doors, LLC. We source olde wood from barns, houses, buildings and sheds and repurpose it to create lovely interior barn doors! Is there a story behind your business? I was

When CI Works purchased real estate – we looked at building expenses and decided that we had to reduce our operating expenses and felt that it would be a plus to lower the building’s carbon footprint at the same time. We also realized that we now owned a 100+ year old building that looked like it came with lights invented at that time. There also existed the opportunity to improve the working and safety conditions for tenants and their employees. Only problem was – who on

The old model of long term ‘handcuffed’ leases with fixed footprints and extraordinary provisions to pass through any types of imagined expenses that might occur – or actually never will – is not the buyer market in 2018. Lessees want simplicity and flexibility. Even WeWork – known for flex office space, but mostly for co-working individuals, is now leasing space with large office footprints in major markets. Below from Nov. 1 Boston Globe article included at this link: ht