LIVERPOOL — The Region of Queens has signed off on a deal to wipe out eight months of rent owed by the Lightbridge Inc. call centre in return for all the furniture and equipment in the municipally owned building out of which it operated.
It’s like being able to offer a furnished apartment to a new tenant, said chief administrative officer David Clattenburg.
"It gives us a huge advantage and a good selling point," he said.
Mayor John Leefe agreed. "We get a fully furnished and electronically geared up building and that makes it easier to get a new tenant."
Lightbridge Inc. of Massachusetts announced in May, just two years after it opened its Queens County doors, that it was closing its Liverpool operation. The move threw close to 200 people out of work. Lightbridge said at the time it was the best decision for the company because it had lost its multimillion-dollar contract with T-Mobile, the world’s third-largest multinational mobile phone-service provider...
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