Esquire Road

Esquire Road is an industrial street in North Billerica, in the Treble Cove Industrial Park between Treble Cove Road and Route 3. It leaves Republic Road and runs north beside the Route 3 layout, then bends west past the end of Sterling Road to a dead end, about 2,900 feet in all. It was laid out on the "Lot Layout Plan, 'Treble Cove Industrial Park,' Billerica, Mass.," owned by Graham Associates Inc., the company of the developer Jon H. Graham, and drawn by Raymond Engineering Service of Hudson. The plan is dated February 18, 1969; the Planning Board endorsed it that day as not requiring approval under the subdivision control law, and it was recorded on February 21, 1969 (Plan Book 108, Plan 63). On its two sheets Esquire Road runs from Republic Road for about 1,100 feet to a turnaround at the land of the Burlington Sand and Stone Co., with industrial lots of about 45,000 to 65,000 square feet between it and Republic Road and along the state's Route 3 land. The road was later carried on beyond the 1969 turnaround to its present end; when, and by whom, was not found. The oldest buildings on it date from about 1971 to 1975. The origin of the name Esquire, like that of Republic, was not found.

In 1976 the town laid a water main in Esquire Road and began a twelve-inch main on Rangeway Road that was to loop back to Treble Cove Road "along Esquire Road and Republic Road." At the sixth session of the annual town meeting, on May 17, 1984, the town accepted Esquire Road as a public way, "a way 50 feet wide and 2,324 feet, more or less long," together with Republic Road and Sterling Road. In 1996 the selectmen were working for a $1,000,000 Community Development Action Grant "to provide sewer for the Republic, Sterling and Esquire Road Industrial area," which depended on connecting the House of Correction to the town's sewers; the Republic Road area was sewered under the town's Contract 32A, completed in 2005. A petition article at the fall town meeting of 2011 to accept a further portion of about 720 feet, running northwest from "the northeast corner of the accepted portion of Esquire Road," was dismissed on October 13, 2011.

References

1. Annual Report 1976: Water Committee, 12 inch loop from Rangeway Road along Esquire Road and Republic Road
2. Annual Report 1984: May 17, 1984, Esquire Road accepted as a public way, 50 ft wide, 2,324 ft
3. Annual Report 1996: Selectmen seek $1,000,000 CDAG grant for sewer in the Republic, Sterling and Esquire Road area
4. Annual Report FY2012: fall 2011 warrant Art. 33 to accept a further portion of Esquire Road
5. Annual Report FY2012: Oct. 13, 2011, Article 33 (portion of Esquire Road) dismissed

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