If you’re thinking of opening a business the Business Advocacy Team will assist and navigate your way through to open your business. The team provides free advice on business plans, legal, zoning, building code, financial, design, real estate, and marketing issues. The team consists of professional advisors with decades of experience and with one aim – to help as many businesses in Downtown Adams open and thrive.
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To date the BAT team has provided leasing, building code, real estate and marketing advice to seven stalled developments with a total potential investment of $10 million.
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Rapoza Center for the Arts
By converting the corridor link into a breezeway allowed the project be redefining as two separate buildings for State building code purposes. This reduced construction costs by $100,000 making the project financially feasible. Download Full Details at Rapoza_Arts.pdf |
The Old Stone Mill Center for Arts and Creative Engineering
Defining a realistic phasing made this large scale project in Adams viable in the immediate future. In addition the suggested phasing allowed for potential flexibility in the future to fit market demands and reduced construction costs by approximately $300,000 |
Why Adams?
The downtown has over 100 retail destinations including 17 Restaurants, 10 cultural venues, 3 Boutique Hotels, 9 Buildings on the Historic Register, 10 drinking establishments, 24 retail, and 23 business service storefronts. There is even 1,750 parking spaces. With 44 vacancies and rents approximately half the cost of North Adams and even lower than Williamstown and Pittsfield the Downtown is by far the best place to start your business. |
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