“PITTSFIELD — Mayor Linda Tyer introduced Wayfair co-founder and CEO Niraj Shah as “our new and old friend,” during a ceremony Thursday welcoming the the online furniture retailer’s newest customer service center.
Shah told The Eagle that this homecoming has been a trip down memory lane: He drove by the homes he lived in while growing up in Pittsfield — on Williams Street and Bellmore and Brookside drives.
Now a billionaire, Shah put a foot back in Pittsfield on Thursday at a time when the city is rebuilding. Community leaders reveled in the moment: Wayfair’s newly finished service center, in the Clock Tower Business Center on South Church Street, is projected to result in 300 jobs locally. Wayfair, a Boston-based e-commerce company that sells furniture and home-goods, employs nearly 10,000 globally.”
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