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  • March 19, 2006

    Still, a Beacon for Affordable Housing

    The Beacon Companies’ history includes development of Boston landmarks such as Rowes Wharf and One Post Office Square, as well as rental housing. Due to the unexpected death last March of Edwin Sidman, a member of the founding Leventhal family, the company was renamed Beacon Communities and is now headed by Howard Cohen, a Beacon veteran.

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  • February 12, 2006

    Haverhill is the Picture of Progress

    HAVERHILL — This small city on the Merrimack River is poised for its second renaissance. From the ruins of a great fire more than a century ago rose a clutch of factory buildings that gave the downtown an intimate industrial feel.

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  • September 15, 2000

    Beacon Communities Opens Repton Place Model

    Watertown, Mass. (September 15, 2006) – Beacon Communities LLC announced it has opened the sales office for Repton Place, a new 385-unit condominium community located on Pleasant Street in Watertown, Mass.

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