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Cummings Center in Beverly is a
two million square foot, fully rebuilt historic complex.
It currently houses 318 different businesses, which already employ
more than 3,000 people and occupy more than 1.6 million square
feet. The most "typical" tenant leases between 1,000
and 3,000 square feet, but there are 20 firms with 20,000 square
feet or more (including Gateway Computers, Groove Networks, and
Medtronics), and one Thermo Electron firm (Orion Research) occupies
140,000 square feet.
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Cummings Center welcomes firms
of all sizes, beginning in spaces as small as a few hundred square
feet. The complex is appropriately designed to accommodate all
sorts of Massachusetts office, executive office, research, and
service needs. Leasing is a simple process, using a standard four-page
lease.
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Cummings Center leases MA office,
laboratory, and research space of every description. There is
no better source for leasing Boston commercial real estate. All
rental rates include building insurance, base real estate taxes
and on-site management, as well as free garage parking and complete
maintenance of all building equipment.
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Also included in the base rate are
all costs for common area maintenance, snow removal, building
insurance, structural and mechanical maintenance, landscaping,
etc. For the smallest suites, electricity is included at slightly
higher rates, but in suites of 1,000 square feet or larger, utilities
are typically separately metered.
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Special features at Cummings Center
include its convenient, easy on/off access to Route 128 and its
attractive 72-acre campus, with two scenic ponds. There are literally
thousands of large windows in this historic complex, which is
well known to students of architecture as the largest reinforced-concrete
structure in the world, until 1939. It is also one of the
very earliest buildings to incorporate the then brand new "curtain
wall" method of construction.
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Beyond
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Amenities at Cummings Center
are another important reason why so many regional, national,
and international firms have selected this huge complex for
their business homes. On-site daycare is provided at a state-of-the-art,
125-child Bright Horizons facility. Just upstairs, hundreds
of somewhat older students are currently pursuing business degrees
at the Cummings Center branches of North Shore Community College,
Emmanuel College, Endicott College, and Lesley College.
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When United Shoe Machinery Corporation
flourished in Beverly, it operated one of the very first factory-sponsored,
state chartered high schools in the country. This was for young
Beverly men who spent an extra year taking combined classes
at Beverly High School and at USM, so they would be qualified
for lifetime careers at "The Shoe."
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Today, a new state-of-the-art
corporate fitness center is another major amenity for workers
at Cummings Center, as is the on-site YMCA. Three coffee shops
and restaurants are spread throughout the campus.
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Easy access to the MBTA commuter
rail in and out of Boston is another valued feature. Numerous
on-site health services including two dental offices, three
chiropractic clinics, and Orthopedics Plus physical therapy,
are among the other services relied on by many Cummings Center
workers. The proximity to Beverly Airport, with its 5,000 foot
runway, is a plus for many as well.
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There are two full-service banks
(Beverly National Bank and Danvers Savings Bank) at Cummings
Center, plus several accountants, travel agencies, and a dozen
law offices, insurance brokers, stockbrokers and financial specialists,
for those who would like to take advantage of the abundant selection
of high-powered, professional support services.
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Also in September 1998, Beverly
dedicated its new James L. McKeown Elementary
School at the northwest corner of the complex, on six acres
donated to the city by the Cummings organization. Elsewhere on
the Cummings Center campus Beverly has appropriated funding to
design a new, public safety headquarters, to be built in 2005
on land also donated by the Company at the southeast corner of
Cummings Center.
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| Unrelated to Beverly, the commonwealth of Massachusetts
recently honored Mr. McKeown also, when it named the state’s first
major new interstate highway interchange in many years in his honor.
The new James L. McKeown Interchange opened in North Woburn in October
2000. This important interchange with two of the new fly-over type
bridges was actively promoted by Mr. McKeown during its earliest
planning stages, because of its ability to greatly relieve traffic
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