Vitale Caturano announces expansion

Vitale Caturano, an accounting and consulting firm, said it has leased an additional 22,000 square feet of space to bring the total amount of space it leases at 80 City Square in Charlestown to 91,000 square feet.

The lease for the additional space is a response to "rapid growth across all its practices," said the firm, which added that it currently employs 370 people.

“Our Charlestown, Mass., facility is an ideal location for employees, clients, and business associates of the firm," Richard J. Caturano, president and chief executive of the firm, said in a statement. "We are excited to be expanding in a building that offers first-class amenities at leasing costs substantially less than downtown rates."

Richard Vitale, a firm cofounder and a friend of Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, has been in the news of late over questions of whether or not he engaged in lobbying activities without first registering as a lobbyist. Vitale has insisted that he was a "strategist" and not a lobbyist. Vitale retired from Vitale Caturano in May.
(Chris Reidy, Globe staff)