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 ground, what I want to bring to the table is really opening the door for businesses and communi- ties with economic and real-estate development projects; we’re really ramping things up.”
That background he mentioned includes his own private consulting firm, CJC Development
“We’ve certainly experienced enough in this now that we can go in and help cities and towns with buildings like this, whether they’re mills or old dilapidated structures; we can help them go in and see what can be done.”
Advisors, and a stint as director of the West-
field Redevelopment Authority, during which he worked on several projects in the city’s down- town. He is now part of a team that also includes Sara la Cour, vice president of Operations for Westmass, and Sean O’Donnell, Economic Devel- opment planner and leasing manager for the agency.
Overall, this consulting arm is now one of three main prongs to the Westmass operation, with the others being industrial-park manage- ment — the agency oversees several parks, including facilities in Agawam, Chicopee, East Longmeadow, Hadley, and Westfield, most of
Kamil Peters is one of a number of new tenants at Ludlow Mills that are giving the complex a different look and feel.
        which are fully leased — and redevelopment of the Ludlow Mills site, a 15-to 20-year project that Daly believes can serve as a model for what other communities can do with old mill buildings and complex brownfield sites.
The mill now boasts 30 tenants, including a senior housing complex, a rehabilitation hospital, and a host of smaller businesses, including sever- al recent arrivals. That list includes Kamil Peters,
a contemporary metal sculptor who relocated to the mill from Holyoke (more on him later); West- net Inc., a medical-supplies distributor, which moved in earlier this year; and Herron Automa- tion, a machinist and CNC operator.
It also includes a tenant that isn’t new but is intriguing nonethe-
less. That would be Iron Duke Brewery,
Westmass
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