Structure · Built 1971
495 Rear Billerica Av
Deed References
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| June 7, 1950 | Quitclaim Deed | United States of America, by the General Services Administrator | Tewksbury Development Corporation of Boston | the land under the later Raytheon building (Billerica part of Tract B) | 1142/131 |
Pages 131-134, dated May 26, 1950, under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 and the Surplus Property Act of 1944. For $130,000 (the balance secured by a mortgage back to the United States), "TRACT B - PARCELS 1, 3, 5 A certain parcel of land with all buildings thereon ... situated in the City of Lowell, and the Towns of Billerica and Tewksbury": from a stone bound on the westerly side of the Boston and Maine Railroad at station 1214+30.81 northerly along the railroad, by City of Lowell land 341 ft to the Concord River, up the river, then S 83-53-15 E 2,180 ft to the start, "Containing 117 acres, more or less", subject to the Wamesit Power Company (Whipple Dam) flowage; "Being the same property acquired by the United States of America through the filing of Declaration of Taking No. 1". Also Parcel 6, "the right ... to operate, maintain, and use the existing bridge over the Boston and Maine Railroad at said airport entrance road", and Tewksbury and Lowell tracts 2, 4, 5 and 6. Uranium and thorium reserved.
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| May 31, 1955 | Quitclaim Deed | Tewksbury Development Corporation (Boston, formerly Tewksbury) | Raytheon Manufacturing Company (Delaware), of Waltham | Raytheon Manufacturing Company buys the tract; it built this plant (assessed from 1971) | 1295/243 |
Recorded May 31, 1955 with the Commonwealth's waiver of the tax lien on page 242, which describes "a certain parcel of land with buildings thereon situated in Lowell, Billerica & Tewksbury, being the same premises conveyed to the corporation from the United States of America by deed dated 5/26/50 ... Bk. 1142, Pg. 131, together with personal property in said premises as provided in agreement of 5/5/55". With quitclaim covenants, Tract B, Parcels 1, 3 and 5 (117 acres, same bounds) and the Parcel 6 right of way and bridge "at the airport entrance road".
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| December 23, 1996 | Quitclaim Deed | Raytheon Company (Delaware), 141 Spring Street, Lexington | Merrimack Valley Industrial Associates Limited Partnership, Needham | Raytheon sells the plant | 8362/31 |
Seven pages. "525 Woburn Street, Lowell". For $6,500,000, with quitclaim covenants, "TRACT B - PARCELS 1, 3, 5 A certain parcel of land with all buildings thereon ... situated in the City of Lowell, and the Towns of Billerica and Tewksbury", 117 acres, the same bounds as the 1950 government deed, and Parcel 6, the right of way and bridge "at the airport entrance road", with other Lowell and Tewksbury tracts. Raytheon had held the plant since 1955. The buyer ran it as the Riverview industrial park.
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| August 17, 2007 | Deed | Merrimack Valley Industrial Associates LP and Merrimack Valley Properties Inc | National Industrial Portfolio Borrower LLC | sale of the Riverview industrial park | 21517/107 |
Eight pages, $65,000,000, 195-515 Woburn Street and Discovery Way (Tewksbury map lots 203-11, 208-83, 208-84) with the Billerica land of the 1996 deed; a confirmatory deed from Equity Industrial Riverview for $1 was recorded with it. In 2012 and 2014 the property passed between affiliated National Industrial Portfolio companies, ending with NIP Owner IV LLC.
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| March 13, 2020 | Deed | NIP Owner IV LLC | EIP 495 Woburn Street LLC, Newton | present owner; building demolished 2020 | 33915/244 |
Seven pages, $8,900,000, 495 Woburn Street and Discovery Way (Tewksbury lots 208-83, 208-84) with the Billerica parcel 1-1-0 (495 Rear Billerica Av, 35.872 acres). The Raytheon-era building was torn down in 2020 and a warehouse of 775,263 square feet, 378,242 of them in Billerica, was built in 2021 and 2022 (assessor). Current owner.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.