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Artizan Nominated for Business Award
Artizan Design Centre in
Lawrence Nominated for 2006 Canadian American Business
Achievement Award
Award Recognizes Successful Alliances Between Canadian
and American Companies for Innovation, Jobs, and Revenue
Creation LAWRENCE- The Wood Products Group of
Canada’s Artizan Design Centre, located at the South
Canal International Business Center, 29 South Canal
Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts, has been nominated for
the 2006 Canadian American Business Achievement
Award.
Winners will be chosen by an international panel of
judges and will be recognized at the 12th annual Canadian
American Business Achievement Award ceremony on November
8, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario.
The prestigious award is given to two companies, one
Canadian and one American, whose joint enterprise has
demonstrated “strong business growth, remarkable
innovation, and the capacity to provide the partners with
a global advantage,” according to Jennifer Morris,
Deputy Director of the Canadian American Business Council
(CABC) in Washington, DC, sponsor of the award.
United States Congressman Martin Meehan (D-Fifth
Congressional District) nominated Artizan Design Centre
for the CABC award because of its innovative and
forward-looking partnership between the South Canal
International Business Center – a completely
renovated former mill building on the Merrimack River
– and the Wood Products Group of Canada, a trade
association representing more than 130 millwork, building
products, and furniture manufacturers from the Atlantic
Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
Newfoundland/Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.
“Artizan Design Centre and the South Canal
International Business Center provide a wonderful model
of what a true private-public sector partnership should
be. The partnership reflects a dynamic working
relationship between the public and private sectors in
addressing issues such as job creation and retention and
economic revitalization,” said Congressman
Meehan.
“The Design Centre has become a cornerstone of
revitalization in Lawrence and provides job creation and
other continuing economic benefits that strengthen the
already strong relationship between the United States and
Canada.”
Artizan Design Centre received financing from the
Canadian federal government (Atlantic Canada
Opportunities Agency, a.k.a. ACOA) and the Province of
New Brunswick. The South Canal International
Business Center benefited from financing and Brownfields
assistance from MassDevelopment.
The 3,400-square-foot Artizan Design Centre opened March
21, 2006 and showcases innovative, premium-quality
cabinetry, moulding, specialty millwork, flooring,
windows, doors, stairways, railings, kitchen and bath
items, heirloom-quality furniture, panelized building
systems, timber frame structures, log homes, exterior
siding, cedar shingles, and outdoor building and
appearance products.
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