Word: portering
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...officials at Lesley—which recently acquired the Art Institute of Boston (AIB) and plans to move the fine arts school to Cambridge—told members of the Porter Square Neighborhood Association (PSNA) last night that they had begun work on a long-range plan for developing the school’s property in Cambridge...
...Porter drew attention to a number of drawbacks hindering business growth in Massachusetts, including the high cost of living and doing business, as well as difficulties in getting state approval for new infrastructure...
Unlike 41 other states, Massachusetts does not yet have an official life sciences initiative, but Porter said that the region’s “pre-eminent” cluster of institutions and private industry could serve as a springboard for growth...
...Porter, who is an unofficial advisor to the state’s governor and has spent much of his career studying such clusters, said that Massachusetts could gain as many as 100,000 jobs in the life sciences sector if it better exploited its concentration of expertise...
Aside from loosening regulations related to site construction, Porter said Massachusetts could attract more companies to the area by aiding small firms directly with funds from the federal settlement with tobacco companies...