For over 50 years, Brad Pierce has stewarded the Cape Ann Motor Inn, serving as innkeeper and later becoming a co-owner, but this November, the Long Beach property was sold.

The inn at 33 Rockport Road was sold to the Martignetti Hospitality Group, the same business that owns The Inn at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester and Captain’s Bounty at the Beach in Rockport.

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