WESTFORD — An area printing enterprise is searching for donations for brand new tools forward of a grand reopening in March.
Printing Options, Inc., a Westford staple since 1990, shuttered in December after a brand new landlord knowledgeable the corporate that their lease wouldn’t be renewed. Maudrivia, Inc., a newly registered LLC primarily based in Boston, bought the constructing in September.
“On the finish of November, Printing Options obtained discover that the brand new landlord needed our items for his enterprise. He gave us 30 days to vacate. We requested for a 30-day extension and he did accommodate us,” a GoFundMe web page from former worker Kathy Mendell reads.
Reasonably than reopen the enterprise below its present identify, Mendell will open ProPrint, LLC with the assistance of former PSI proprietor Darlene Lagasse-Winn.
“I don’t need to work with anybody else,” Mendell wrote.
She added, “I talked with Darlene about opening my print store and she or he thought it was a fantastic thought. I requested her if she would take into account coming to work for me and with out hesitation, she was on board.”
Lagasse-Winn informed WestfordCAT that she is going to be part of in-office “at a later date.”
“I do love the folks, I like the city. 34 years of printing that’s all I do know,” she stated.
Mendell is searching for as much as $50,000 in donations for computer systems, printers and extra workplace tools. The enterprise will open at 224 Littleton Rd., within the former Westford Insurance coverage workplace.
ProPrint, LLC is scheduled to open on March 1.
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