By Michael Lafleur,

LOWELL -- The Cambodian Mutual Assistance 
Association of Greater Lowell has moved into a 
new headquarters building. 

The state's largest Southeast Asian social 
service agency now is located at 120 Cross St., 
inside the former Pappas Funeral Home, in the 
new Asian business plaza located off Broadway 
Street in Lowell's Acre neighborhood. 

CMAA officials earlier this year sold their 
previous headquarters at 165 Jackson St., in the 
former Hamilton Manufacturing Co. complex, to 
the Boston-based Architectural Heritage 
Foundation for $805,000. AHF officials have 
plans to convert the former CMAA building, as 
well as the adjacent Adden Furniture Co. 
building, into housing. 

Vong Ros, CMAA executive director since 2002, 
said the move saved the agency thousands of 
dollars in utilities costs as paying for gas and 
electricity at the former headquarters building 
was a perennial budgetary drain. Ros said the 
rent for the new building would have been $4,700 
per month but the shopping plaza's landlord, 
Southeast Asian real estate investor 

      For more information , please contact
   
                     C M A A
                   120 Cross St 
                Lowell , Ma 01854
                              USA
             
               Tel  (978) 454-6200
               Fax  (978) 454-1806
             E-mail: cmaalowell.org
  
     
      The C M A A was found in July 20th 1984