Lalli Tower to be built in Acton

Governor Deval Patrick announced the newest public-works project to be funded under the little-used federal stimulus program, a large office-tower, retail-shopping-residential-commercial-industrial complex in Acton, Massachusetts.

Modeled after Chicago's "Sears Tower," the new project will be breaking ground within weeks.

"Acton is the perfect location for this shovel-ready investment project and it will bring a lot of high-paying jobs, both in construction and in workers who will have offices in the skyscraper," Patrick said at a news conference held at the I.B.E.W. union headquarters in Dorchester.

"Acton's new double-track commuter rail system will bring workers to the town who will be able to walk to the tower, or we may build a rail extension, depending on local bedrock, streams, waterways, and rivers," he said. "The final location for this project has yet to be determined, but we are working with local officials who seem very supportive of this project, or else," he said.

The "Willis Tower," as it is known in Chicago, will be called "Lalli Tower" in Acton, after a generous donation by the Steinberg-Lalli Trust. "We just need to move the plaque on the rock outside the home on Route 111," said the Trust's spokesman....

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