Brockton, Massachusetts

6 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 10 BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS Brockton. We have really high quality with all the bells and whistles with the stainless fixtures and the granite and parking.” The word is definitely getting out about Brockton, which is seeing a rise in young professionals moving to the city. “Young professionals are moving to Brockton because of the price point. They’re moving to Brockton because they’re getting high class living arrangements, but they’re saving money and some folks are paying off their student loans with the savings they are doing. It’s kind of a win-win,” Sullivan says. It’s not just new residents that are attracted to Brockton. The city’s renaissance extends to businesses, as well. Over the past 10 years, the city has been able to restore or create 419,000 square feet of commercial space in its downtown core, attracting new businesses and retaining old. W.D. Mason, which has called Brockton home since its founding in 1898, made a major investment in the downtown in order to expand its office space. According to May, “They could have moved their office operations anywhere and they chose to stay here and reinvest. The Mayor at that point in time shepherded through a tax increment financing program for them to help them defer some of their costs. That’s the kind of pro-business thing we do here.” One of the city’s major industries is food manufacturing. That includes Cindy’s Kitchen, one of the leading salad dressing manufacturers in the country, as well as F.B. Washburn Candy, America’s oldest family-owned candy business. It began as a bakery in 1856 and has since expanded to a five-floor, 150,000 square- foot operation. “Folks are understanding that Brockton is business-friendly,” Sullivan says. “We’re open for business.” Brockton further sets itself apart as an attractive place to live or start a business by having surplus water supply and sewage space. “Which CAC is part of TILT Holdings portfolio of companies, in addition to plant touching operations in Pennsylvania and Ohio under the Standard Farms brand, and an inhalation hardware business, Jupiter Research LLC, located in Arizona serving 37 states, Canada, Israel, South America and the European Union. CANNABIS PRODUCTS PROUDLY GROWN, PROCESSED, AND PACKAGED IN MASSACHUSETTS Commonwealth Alternative Care’s core mission is to help customers and patients have access to quality, safe cannabis through our house brands, as well as o er a rich assortment of innovative brand partner products from the west coast and unique new brands coming to market. With a medical and adult use dispensary in Brockton, CAC serves a broad and diverse community that extends to its medical and adult use store in Taunton and our newly opened medical only dispensary in Cambridge, located in Inman Square. CAC is a vertical operator, with cultivation and production located in Taunton supplying our CAC stores as well as dispensaries throughout Massachuse s with an established wholesale organization servicing a large percentage of Massachuse s with our house and partner brands. Commonwealth Alternative Care cares deeply about the communities we are in and is commi ed to providing services to our community through volunteering, fundraising, educational webinars, workshops, and community-based services that empower and enrich each other to face life’s challenges with con dence, competence, and dignity. info@commonwealthaltcare.org www.commonwealthaltcare.org