Equinix BO2
Equinix BO2
| Address | 41 Alexander Rd |
| Built | 2000 |
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Booking Plus Engineering (2003 - 2011)
Skillsoft (2005 - 2008) Akamai Technologies (2005 - 2015) Network World (2009 - 2016) Cookson Electronics (2010 - 2011) Patni Computer Systems (2011 - 2018) Accovia (2011 - 2014) The Art Store (2011 - 2011) 800 Response Information Services (2011 - 2021) Terremark (2012 - 2023) NTT Data (2017 - ????) Equinix (2018 - ????) RSA Security (2019 - 2022) Admirals Bank (2020 - 2023) Robertshaw Controls (2020 - 2022) Right Networks (2020 - 2023) Agero (2020 - 2021) ATP IP (2020 - 2023) NetNumber (2020 - 2023) Net Atlantic (2020 - 2021) M/K Systems (2020 - 2020) Aspect Software (2020 - ????) Lionbridge Technologies (2020 - ????) Amazon Data Services (2023 - ????) Raytheon Technologies (2024 - ????) |
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The Equinix BO2 data center at 41 Alexander Road in East Billerica is a concrete panel building of about 108,000 square feet on a lot of almost seventeen acres, built about 2000 for MCI WorldCom and since 2017 part of the Equinix network of colocation centers, where companies rent space, power and network connections for their own servers.
The land was part of the farms of the Jonas Alexander family on the road that took their name, sold by Mary C. Alexander in 1927 to the L. C. Morang Company and laid out that year as Shawsheen Pines, a grid of small house lots with streets that were never built. The unsold land passed through foreclosures and dealers to Joseph M. Linsey, who held it from 1954 to 1981, and then to Alexander Realty Trust and Alexander Realty Trust III, Caporale family trusts that sold it off in lots in the 1980s, reserving their rights in the paper streets of the 1927 plan.
Antico Development Company of Waltham bought three pieces from Alexander Realty Trust III in 1986: Lot 3B of 8.52 acres in February for $482,293, Lot 4B of nine acres along the paper Jefferson Street in July for $350,000, and 6.26 more acres in August for $269,180. Its surveyor Ralph J. Bibbo joined them on a series of re-division plans, and in 1987 cut the whole into Lot 7, where the company put up the building at 19 Alexander Road, and Lot 8 of 17.67 acres. In 1992 the Antico partners passed both lots to Anthony J. Antico and then to his company Charlesbank Estates, Inc., subject to a $2,000,000 bank mortgage.
In January 2000 Charlesbank Estates sold Lot 8 to MCI WorldCom Network Services for $1,881,630, and MCI WorldCom built the data center on it, finished about 2001. After Verizon bought MCI, the building was known locally as the Verizon facility; in 2014 the Planning Board approved a one-megawatt solar array of 3,000 panels on the front of the lot, which feeds the grid under a land lease. On May 1, 2017 Verizon moved the property through MCI Communications Services into Verizon Data Centers I LLC, and leased space back, as part of the sale of its data centers to Equinix; the company, renamed VDC I, LLC, released the property to Equinix, LLC in 2022. Equinix has since contested the building's assessment before the Appellate Tax Board. The building and land were assessed at $42 million in 2026.
Besides the operators MCI, Verizon, Terremark (2012 to 2023) and Equinix (from 2018), the personal property tax books list dozens of companies with equipment in the building, among them Akamai Technologies (2005 to 2015), Skillsoft (2005 to 2008), Network World (2009 to 2016), Patni Computer Systems (2011 to 2018), NTT Data (from 2017), RSA Security (2019 to 2022), Lionbridge Technologies and Aspect Software (from 2020) and Amazon Data Services (from 2023), as well as banks, software firms, internet services and engineering companies.
References
- Billerica assessor, 41 Alexander Rd (parcel 65-83-4): 16.67 acres, telecom center built about 2000, owner Equinix LLC; notes MCI, generator yard, 2014 solar array
- datacenterHawk: Equinix BO2, 41 Alexander Road, Billerica: 108,336 SF, 9,250 kW critical power, purpose built in 2001
- Data Center Map: Equinix BO2, 41 Alexander Road, Billerica; Equinix acquired Verizon's portfolio of 29 data centers in 2017
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| March 1, 1927 | Quitclaim | Mary C. Alexander of Billerica, unmarried | L. C. Morang Co., a Massachusetts corporation | Mary C. Alexander to L. C. Morang Co.: the Shawsheen Pines land | 747/9 |
Recorded about March 1, 1927, after the company's vote authorizing its treasurer L. C. Morang. Quitclaim of "the land in Billerica and Wilmington": first, registered land in Wilmington and Billerica on Hopkins Street (Certificate 1476, Book 12 Page 161); "Second, The land in said Billerica on the southeast side of the Shawsheen River, formerly owned by George Gleason, containing about one hundred (100) acres, more or less, with the buildings thereon", "Being the same premises described in deed from Jonas Watson Alexander to Frank Hume Alexander, dated January 23, 1907 ... Book 399, Page 567"; third, 14 acres in Wilmington; fourth, the "Cook Pasture" of about 44 acres; fifth and sixth, Wilmington land on Hopkins Street. The company gave back a purchase mortgage to Mary C. Alexander dated March 1, 1927 (Book 747 Page 11) and in April 1927 had the land platted as "Shawsheen Pines, Billerica - Wilmington - Mass." (Plan Book 50 Plan 61).
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| December 11, 1941 | Foreclosure Deed | John D. Cooke of Wilmington, assignee of the mortgage of L. C. Morang Co. to Mary C. Alexander | John D. Cooke | Cooke forecloses the Morang mortgage | 971/10 |
Signed November 25, 1941, recorded December 11, 1941. "I, JOHN D. COOKE, assignee and present holder of a mortgage from L. C. Morang Co. to Mary C. Alexander, dated March 1, 1927 ... Book 747, Page 11, by the power conferred by said mortgage ... for one thousand dollars paid, grant to John D. Cooke, the premises conveyed by said mortgage, excepting such lots that have been duly released of record or taken by title paramount": the same six parcels, the second being "The land in said Billerica on the southeast side of the Shawsheen River, formerly owned by George Gleason, containing about one hundred (100) acres, more or less, with the buildings thereon". The sale was advertised in the Billerica News and the Wilmington Mirror in October and November 1941. Most of the Shawsheen Pines lots had never sold.
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| April 2, 1945 | Quitclaim | John D. Cooke of Wilmington (Margaret R. Cooke releasing dower) | Alanson E. Stewart of Chelmsford and Russell B. Totman of Reading, joint tenants | Cooke to Stewart and Totman, land between Alexander and Cook Streets | 1020/462 |
Dated and recorded April 2, 1945. For consideration paid, the land in Wilmington and Billerica on the Shawsheen Pines plan (Plan Book 50 Plan 61) from the northeasterly corner of Alexander Street and Jefferson Street, by Jefferson and Jaquith Streets to Lubbers Brook, along the brook to Bousefield, southwesterly by Bousefield 1,988 feet to Aldrich Road, westerly by Aldrich Road and "by Cook Street in Billerica to Alexander Street" and by Alexander Street to the beginning, excepting the lots already sold in Blocks 52-54, 74-77, 81 and 82, subject to an easement to the Lowell Cranberry Company (Book 986 Page 555). "For my title see deeds to me recorded ... Book 971, Page 10 and Book 972, Page 307."
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| September 14, 1945 | Quitclaim | Alanson E. Stewart of Chelmsford and Russell B. Totman of Reading (wives releasing dower) | Billerica Wilmington Airways, Inc., of Billerica | to Billerica Wilmington Airways | 1029/268 |
Dated September 12, 1945, recorded September 14, 1945. The land in Billerica and Wilmington on "Shawsheen Pines, Billerica-Wilmington, Mass., April 1927, Henry F. Bryant & Son, Surveyors" (Plan Book 50 Plan 61), "Beginning on Alexander Street at the Wilmington-Billerica town line", by Barnes to the center of Lubbers Brook at Bousefield, by Bousefield 1,988 feet to Aldrich Road, by Aldrich Road and Cook Street to Alexander Street, and by Alexander Street to the beginning, excepting the sold lots; subject to the Lowell Cranberry Company easement; "This conveyance is made subject to a mortgage held by Woburn Nat. Bank which the grantee assumes and agrees to pay." A second parcel, Wilmington Heights lots 528-548 and 605-615, came from Sylvester Doran. The company's name suggests it meant to build an airfield on the old farm.
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| March 8, 1954 | Foreclosure Deed | Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Company, mortgagee of Billerica-Wilmington Airways, Inc. | John Harrison of Boston | bank foreclosure of the Airways mortgage | 1249/34 |
Signed February 8, 1954, recorded March 8, 1954 (pages 34-38). The bank, holder of a mortgage from Billerica-Wilmington Airways, Inc. dated November 24, 1948 (Book 1103 Page 502, also Document 19856 on Certificate 6759), sold under the power of sale for $42,130.73 "A certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situated in Billerica and Wilmington": the Shawsheen Pines tract from Alexander Street at the town line to Lubbers Brook, Aldrich Road and Cook Street, Wilmington Heights lots, lots in Blocks 32-34 bought from John D. Cooke, and Wilmington registered land (Certificate 6759). Notices ran in the Wilmington Crusader in December 1953; Robert Burns, auctioneer, adjourned the sale to February 8, 1954, when John Harrison bid highest.
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| March 8, 1954 | Quitclaim | John Harrison of Brookline, unmarried | Joseph M. Linsey of Brookline | Harrison to Linsey | 1249/39 |
Recorded March 8, 1954 with the foreclosure deed. The same four parcels, "with the buildings thereon", the first being the Shawsheen Pines tract on Plan Book 50 Plan 61 beginning on Alexander Street at the town line. "Subject to taxes for the year 1954. For my title, see deed of Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Company to me dated February 8, 1954, recorded herewith." Harrison resold to Linsey the same day.
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| April 29, 1954 | Quitclaim | Joseph M. Linsey of Brookline, unmarried | Highway Sand & Gravel Inc., of Boston | Linsey to Highway Sand & Gravel | 1254/17 |
Dated March 24, 1954, recorded about April 29, 1954 (pages 17-18). The same four parcels in Billerica and Wilmington "with the buildings thereon", the first the Shawsheen Pines tract between Alexander Street, the town line, Lubbers Brook, Aldrich Road and Cook Street, excepting the sold lots and subject to the Lowell Cranberry Company easement. "Being the same premises conveyed to me by deed of John Harrison, dated March 8, 1954 ... Book 1249, Page 39."
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| February 2, 1956 | Quitclaim | Highway Sand & Gravel Inc., by Joseph M. Linsey, Treasurer | Joseph M. Linsey of Brookline | Highway Sand & Gravel to Linsey | 1325/183 |
Dated December 6, 1955 (excise stamp February 2, 1956; pages 183-184). The same four parcels "with the buildings thereon" in Billerica and Wilmington, the first the Shawsheen Pines tract from Alexander Street at the town line, with the excepted lots listed by block; "Being the same premises conveyed to Highway Sand & Gravel Inc. by deed of Joseph M. Linsey dated March 24, 1954" (Book 1254 Page 17). Linsey held the land for the next 26 years; the town considered taking 30 acres of it on Alexander Road for a school in 1975 but the article lost.
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| October 7, 1981 | Quitclaim | Joseph M. Linsey of Palm Beach, Florida | Elizabeth Caporale, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust, of Meadowbrook Road, Billerica | Linsey to Alexander Realty Trust | 2504/83 |
Signed October 2, 1981, recorded October 7, 1981 (#17961). For $625,000, "A certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situated in Billerica and Wilmington", the first parcel the Shawsheen Pines tract on Plan Book 50 Plan 61 from Alexander Street at the town line to Lubbers Brook, Aldrich Road and Cook Street, less the sold lots and 6.43 acres taken by the Town of Wilmington; "Being the same premises conveyed to Joseph M. Linsey by deed of Highway Sand & Gravel, Inc. dated December 6, 1955 ... Book 1325, Page 183." The trust gave back a purchase-money mortgage to Linsey (Book 2504 Page 86), later partially released lot by lot as the land was sold off.
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| August 17, 1984 | Foreclosure Deed | Frederick J. Conroy, mortgagee of Elizabeth Caporale, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust | Frederick J. Conroy of Lexington | Conroy foreclosure | 2826/206 |
Signed August 14, 1984, recorded August 17, 1984. Conroy, holder of a mortgage from Elizabeth Caporale, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust (declaration October 2, 1981, Book 2504 Page 75) dated November 4, 1981 (Book 2509 Page 231), sold under the power of sale for $300,000 "the premises conveyed by said mortgage": two parcels in Billerica and Wilmington with exceptions, "Property Address: Alexander Road and Cook Street, Billerica".
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| October 1, 1984 | Deed | Frederick J. Conroy of Lexington | Frederick J. Conroy, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust III, of Lexington | Conroy to Alexander Realty Trust III | 2859/15 |
Dated August 10, 1984, recorded October 1, 1984 (#31110). "A certain parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situated in Billerica and Wilmington": the Shawsheen Pines tract on Plan Book 50 Plan 61 beginning on Alexander Street at the Wilmington-Billerica town line, by Barnes, Lubbers Brook at Bousefield, 1,988 feet to Aldrich Road, Aldrich Road and Cook Street, with many excepted lots and the 6.43 acres taken by Wilmington (Book 1704 Page 366); Wilmington Heights lots; and Wilmington registered land (Certificate 6759). "Being the same premises conveyed to grantor by foreclosure deed of Frederick J. Conroy dated August 14, 1984 ... Book 2826 Page 206." Leonard Caporale later served as trustee of Alexander Realty Trust III, which sold the land in lots for houses and industry.
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| February 7, 1986 | Quitclaim | Leonard Caporale, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust III | Antico Development Company, of Waltham | Lot 3B to Antico Development | 3347/76 |
Signed and acknowledged February 4, 1986, recorded February 7, 1986. For $482,293.20, "Lot 3B, as shown on a plan entitled 'Re-Division Plan of Land, Billerica, Mass., prepared for Antico Development Corporation dated September 12, 1985, by Ralph J. Bibbo, Reg. Land Surveyor'" (Plan Book 152 Plan 43), "located on the easterly line of Alexander Road": westerly by Alexander Road in six courses, by land of the Town of Billerica and of Alexander Realty Trust III, and by Lot 2, "Containing 371,273.4 square feet more or less or 8.52 acres". The grantor reserved its rights in the Shawsheen Pines "paper streets" of the 1927 plan (Plan Book 50 Plan 61). "For title see deed from Frederick J. Conroy dated August 10, 1984 ... Book 2859, Page 15."
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| July 2, 1986 | Quitclaim | Leonard Caporale, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust III | Antico Development Co., 184 Felton Street, Waltham | Lot 4B to Antico Development | 3568/196 |
Signed June 30, 1986, recorded July 2, 1986. For $350,000, "Lot 4B on a plan entitled 'Re-division Plan of Land Billerica - Mass; Prepared for Antico Development Corporation', dated April 18, 1986, by Ralph J. Bibbo" (Plan Book 154 Plan 82), from the corner of Alexander Realty Trust III land and "Jefferson Street (a paper street)", by Jefferson Street 400 feet, Lots 1 and 2, Lot 3B, the Town of Billerica, Alexander Road, Tashjian and Alexander Realty Trust III, "392,624 +/- square feet", with a 40-foot utility right of way on the southwesterly side. The plan joined Lots 3B and 4B as Lot 5B, 17.53 acres. Conroy released the lot from his mortgage the same day (Book 3568 Page 193).
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| August 7, 1986 | Quitclaim | Leonard Caporale, Trustee of Alexander Realty Trust III | Antico Development Co. | the 6.26 acres to Antico Development | 3634/264 |
Signed August 5, 1986, recorded August 7, 1986. For $269,180, "A certain parcel of land situate on Alexander Road ... containing 6.26 acres", shown "as additional land (6.26 acres)" on the Re-Division Plan for Antico Development Corporation dated June 18, 1986 (Plan Book 155 Plan 32): northeasterly by Alexander Road, southeasterly by Alexander Realty Trust III 1,625.28 feet, southwesterly 150 feet, northwesterly and westerly by "said Old Lot 5B", and by land of Tashjian, with a utility right of way on the southwesterly side. The plan made Old Lot 5B and this land New Lot 6B, 23.79 acres.
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| June 11, 1992 | Quitclaim | Anthony J. Antico, Anthony J. Antico III and John W. Antico, partners in Antico Development Company | Anthony J. Antico of Waltham | Antico partnership to Anthony J. Antico, Lots 7 and 8 | 5974/48 |
Recorded June 11, 1992. For $10 and the grantee's assumption of a $2,000,000 mortgage to BayBank Middlesex dated May 9, 1989 (Book 4883 Page 65), the parcel "now known and numbered 19 Alexander Road": "Lots 7 and 8 as shown on a plan entitled 'Re-Division Plan of Land, Billerica, Mass., prepared for Antico Development Corporation dated February 20, 1987, by Ralph J. Bibbo'" (Plan Book 158 Plan 106), 23.79 acres, with the utility right of way. The 1987 plan divided Lot 6B into Lot 7 (6.12 acres, the 19 Alexander Road building of 1988) and Lot 8 (17.67 acres). The town had taken Lot 8 for 1990 taxes in 1991 (Book 5515 Page 275).
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| June 11, 1992 | Quitclaim | Anthony J. Antico of Waltham | Charlesbank Estates, Inc., 70 Charles River Road, Waltham | to Charlesbank Estates, Inc. | 5974/50 |
Dated June 1, 1992, recorded June 11, 1992. For one dollar and the assumption of all outstanding mortgages, 19 Alexander Road, Lots 7 and 8 on Plan Book 158 Plan 106, 23.79 acres, subject to the BayBank mortgage of $2,000,000; "For my title see deed recorded herewith" (Book 5974 Page 48).
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| February 3, 2000 | Quitclaim | Charlesbank Estates, Inc., by Anthony J. Antico, president | MCI WorldCom Network Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation | Lot 8 to MCI WorldCom | 10653/178 |
Executed January 28, 2000, recorded February 3, 2000. For $1,881,630, the parcel "now known as Lot 8 Alexander Road": Lot 8 on the Re-Division Plan of February 20, 1987 (Plan Book 158 Plan 106), "770,006 +/- square feet or 17.67 acres", with the 40-foot utility right of way (Book 3568 Page 193); the grantor reserved drainage from its Lot 7 until the grantee filed a final plan. "For grantor's title see deed dated June 1, 1992 ... Book 5974, Page 050." MCI WorldCom built its data center on the lot in 2000-2001.
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| May 1, 2017 | Quitclaim | Verizon Business Network Services Inc., formerly MCI Network Services, Inc., formerly MCI WorldCom Network Services, Inc. | MCI Communications Services, Inc. | Verizon Business to MCI Communications | 31084/287 |
Dated and recorded May 1, 2017 (10 pages). For $1, "the land located at 41 Alexander Road ... together with all buildings, structures and improvements located thereon"; "For Grantor's title, see Deed of Charlesbank Estates, Inc. ... dated January 28, 2000 ... Book 10653, Page 178." The first of two same-day transfers moving the data center into a separate company for its sale to Equinix.
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| May 1, 2017 | Quitclaim | MCI Communications Services, Inc. | Verizon Data Centers I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company | to Verizon Data Centers I LLC | 31085/1 |
Dated and recorded May 1, 2017 (5 pages). For $1, 41 Alexander Road "together with all buildings, structures and improvements"; "For Grantor's title, see Deed of Verizon Business Network Services Inc. ... dated May 1, 2017 ... Book 31084, Page 287." The company, later VDC I, LLC with Equinix's address, passed to Equinix with Verizon's data center portfolio in 2017; a memorandum of lease back to Verizon Business Network Services was recorded May 16, 2017 (Book 31120 Page 111).
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| December 2, 2022 | Release Deed | VDC I, LLC, of Redwood City, California | Equinix, LLC, of Redwood City, California | VDC I to Equinix | 37547/37 |
Recorded December 2, 2022 (9 pages). For $10, "WITHOUT COVENANTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, the land with the improvements thereon" at "41-43 Alexander Road" (assessor parcel 65-83-4); "For title reference see deed recorded ... Book 31085, Page 1." Equinix, LLC is the owner of record today.
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Recorded is Book/Page at the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds unless noted.