Boston Business Journal Visionary Award
Introduction of Bill CummingsGiven by George Donnelly, Executive Editor, Boston Business Journal Now we will conclude today’s awards with the presentation of the 2014 Visionary Award - honoring an outstanding leader within the real estate community. Bill Cummings created his empire the old-fashioned way: slowly, surely, debt free. Strategic and disciplined. Buy and hold. In Bill's case, buy, build and hold. Given Bill's remarkable 44-year run at Cummings Properties, having amassed near 10 million square feet of space in 10 communities that ring Boston, his track record alone in real estate development and property management would easily earn him this award. But how many people amass considerable wealth, as Bill did, and then devise a thoughtful plan to give it away — all of it — to charity? This was…