Cummings’ Old Faithful: Blowing More than Smoke

Bill Cummings, the Woburn-based developer, landlord and philanthropist, makes sure that blizzards don’t prevent Cummings Properties' tenants from getting into their offices. A thrifty New Englander through and through, one of this self-made billionaire's secret weapons is the 1948 snow plow that his maintenance crew has kept running for decades. Hey, if it breaks, fix it!   

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