CCC extends Boston lease as Worcester move planned for end of year
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Worcester's Union Station
The Cannabis Control Commission has re-upped the lease for its temporary digs in the Financial District, but expects to move into its Boston satellite office next month and get settled into its new Worcester headquarters by the end of 2019.
Since it began shaping and regulating the legal marijuana industry in September 2017, the CCC has worked out of temporary office space and has relied on the generosity of other agencies to secure sufficient space for its public meetings and hearings.
In December 2018, the CCC formalized a 10-year lease for a 14,381-square-foot office at Worcester's Union Station at a first-year cost of $439,200 and also entered into a lease for a 4,532-square-foot satellite office at 50 Franklin St. in Boston's Downtown Crossing.
The CCC said at the time it hoped to move into the Boston office by late spring or summer, and into its Worcester headquarters in about 40 weeks, after some construction work to configure the space to the CCC's needs.
But with the lease on its temporary offices at 101 Federal St. in Boston expiring in May, the CCC opted instead to extend that lease through December at a cost of $26,711 per month, the CCC said this week. The agency said it had planned for the costs in its FY20 budget.
CCC officials have touted the central location of the agency's planned Worcester headquarters and its accessibility to public transportation. The agency is hoping that basing itself in Worcester will make it accessible to people all around the state and will be a more convenient base of operations for the CCC inspectors who regularly travel to various marijuana businesses.
The Worcester space includes 25 offices, 53 work stations and three conference rooms, one of which will be large enough to accommodate the commission's public meetings.
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