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🌱 Why a $232M Cambridge tower changed hands for just one dollar

Billerica, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • Why a $232M Cambridge tower changed hands for just one dollar

Also on today's calendar: Prior Record and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: Where do lizards go when their tails fall off? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 88 and low of 66 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Tuesday: Very hot; breezy in the p.m., temps: high: 96, low: 78.
  • Wednesday: Partly sunny and hot, with a high of 94 and low of 67 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Building at 40 Thorndike and its tower of empty office space sells for $1 and assumption of $232M debt - Cambridge (csindie.com) — A major regional correctional facility in Billerica is briefly highlighted as the 2014 destination for prisoners moved out of Cambridge’s former Sullivan Courthouse, now the troubled 40 Thorndike tower. That East Cambridge building, largely vacant office space above affordable units, has just been sold for $1 plus assumption of $232 million in debt amid a weak Greater Boston office market.
   

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    Do you know what may have eaten my tall marigolds? Nothing touched them until they were grown-up and blooming, and now an animal has destroyed 4 out… (Nextdoor Lexington Farms)
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Tewksbury

  • Tewksbury Community Market To Feature 30 Vendors On July 16, Including Food Trucks, Farms, Seafood, Sweets, Crafts & More (wilmingtonapple.com)
  • Conservation Committee continues hearing on proposed battery storage facility (homenewshere.com)
  • Board of Health moves toward public hearing on kratom (homenewshere.com)

Bedford

  • iRobot Launches First Non-Robot Cleaner: Chinese Laws Govern Its Home-Mapping Data (techtimes.com)

Wilmington

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The retail store (Thank you CINDY H. for sending it in!)
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