April 28, 2008
The Daily Item

Elevator Interior Design, a company which custom-designs the interior of elevator cabs, cut the ribbon on its new headquarters at 100 Marine Blvd. April 24. The company moved to Lynn after it outgrew its former location in Chelsea.

Relocation costs and the build-out of the Marine Boulevard building, owned by Dominic Vincenzo, were jointly financed by MassDevelopment and the Economic Development and Industrial Corp. of Lynn.

Elevator Interior Design is owned by John Antonellis, who worked for the company — formerly known as Elevator Doors, Inc. — for 18 years. He purchased it in 2006 and changed the name. Antonellis said the 33,000 square feet in Lynn provides the company with the perfect combination of space for manufacturing as well as office space and showroom, allowing for full-scale mockups.

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Cutting the ribbon on Elevator Interior Design's new headquarters were, from left, Sasha Samardzic of Elevator Interior Design, City Councilor Paul Crowley, EDIC Executive Director James Cowdell, Mayor Edward "Chip" Clancy, Jr., company owner John Antonellis and MassDevelopment President and CEO Robert Culver.

“We're open for business,” Mayor Edward J. Clancy Jr. said. “It is a good sign when an established business such as this one chooses Lynn. We are happy to have them here.”

Robert Culver, president and CEO of MassDevelopment, said it is his agency's objective to “keep business alive and growing in the Commonwealth.