Cummings Properties is proud to realize the renaissance of the now 2 million square foot former headquarters of United Shoe Machinery Corporation, a North Shore landmark since 1903. A top-to-bottom restoration has transformed "The Shoe" into Cummings Center, a vibrant corporate campus ready to serve a new century of business. Lease any size high quality Massachusetts office, laboratory, or research space in this extraordinary complex.
 
Hailed by The Wall Street Journal on October 2, 1997 as "the single most important concrete landmark in this country," Cummings Center in Beverly, Massachusetts offers world-class quality and flexibility. It is already home to an eclectic population of more than 340 diverse businesses, including dozens of corporate headquarters, and major software developers, plus pharmaceutical, biotech, and other types of research firms, as well as service firms of all varieties. Click here for tenant comments and website links.
 

Offering 2 million square feet on a 72-acre lakefront campus. Office, executive office, sales, and research space.
 
Just one mile from Rt. 128, America's Technology Highway, Cummings Center leases MA office, research and laboratory space which is just a 25-minute drive from downtown Boston and Logan International Airport. Beverly and its environs offer the accessibility and quality of life for which the North Shore is renowned.
 
 
The 72-acre corporate campus is adjacent to both Bass Haven Yacht Club and Beverly Golf & Tennis Club, along with restaurants, entertainment, and downtown Beverly, as well as a McDonalds and a Super Stop & Shop, almost on-site. Cummings Center has on-site MBTA bus service, and is just two blocks from the main commuter rail station, with direct access to North Station in Boston.
 
Located just north of Boston, Cummings Center in Beverly currently houses an extraordinary variety of Beverly and Boston medical and other professional practices. There are even three colleges there and all tenants collectively employ more than 3,600 people and occupy more than 1.6 million square feet. The most "typical" tenant leases between 1,000 and 6,000 square feet, but there are 30 firms averaging 20,000 square feet or more, and one Thermo Electron occupies 140,000 square feet.
 
Indeed, 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 form four-page lease.
 
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.
 
 
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. One of the nicest amenities is that the complex is so well located and so well known, for the convenience of prospective visitors, employees, etc.
 
 
Special features at Cummings Center include its convenient, easy on/off access to Route 128 and its attractive 72-acre waterfront 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 developed by Ernest Ransome in 1902.
 
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, and Lesley College.
 
When United Shoe Machinery Corporation flourished in this historic Beverly, MA complex, 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."
 
Today, a new state-of-the-art 24,000 square foot corporate fitness center is another major amenity for workers at Cummings Center. Four coffee shops and restaurants are spread throughout the campus, along with barber/beauty shops, and even a 500 seat church.
 
 
Easy access to the MBTA commuter rail in and out of Boston is another valued feature. Numerous on-site health services including medical practices, several dental offices, three chiropractic clinics, and Orthopedics Plus physical therapy, are among the other services relied on by many Cummings Center workers. Leased space near Beverly Airport, with its 5,000 foot runway, is a plus for many as well.
 
There are two full-service banks Beverly National Bank and Danvers Savings Bank both have full-service branches at Cummings Center. There are also 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.
  
 
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.
 
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 his home town of 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 concerns throughout the area.
 
 
Nestled alongside a tranquil country pond, a unique opportunity is ready for full occupancy by early-2005. This final major building to complete the award winning, 71-acre Cummings Center campus is now rapidly nearing completion.
 

Featuring six wide-open 50,000 square foot floors, the new 500 Cummings Center will be home to a select group of companies seeking the finest quality suburban corporate lifestyle without sacrificing all the amenities of a central business district. Instead of leasing Boston commercial space, many firms opt to have part of their key operations in Beverly for reasons of strategic security.

500 Cummings Center is conveniently located 18 miles north of Boston in the historic seaside community of Beverly. The city and its environs offer the accessibility and quality of life for which Massachusetts' North Shore is renowned. Cummings Center is just off Route 1-A, just one mile from Route 128. The campus is bounded on the south by Route 62.

  
 
The crowning jewel of a prime waterfront commerce park, 500 Cummings Center is conveniently located on Route 62, at Route 1A, just minutes from Routes 128 and I-95. Abundant skilled labor, nearby commuter rail and airport, outstanding golf, tennis and sailing, all combine to provide a complete business and recreational community right at your front door.
 
A beacon of commerce on New England's famed "Gold Coast," the wealth of on-site and nearby amenities is one of Cummings Center's biggest attractions. Others like the wealth of historic artifacts which are so prominently displayed throughout the complex. Full-service banking, daycare, restaurants, medical offices, fitness center, gift shop, dry cleaner, hair salon and day spa, stationers, and more are all conveniently located within the complex. This user friendly corporate campus provides accessibility and convenience for tenants, employees, and visitors alike.
  
 
 
 
200 West Cummings Park
Woburn, MA 01801

Beverly 978-922-9000 Woburn 781-935-8000