Road · Laid out 1984
Billerica Park
Billerica Park is not a town street but the private drive of the office and research campus at 101 Billerica Avenue in the northern corner of North Billerica, near the Tewksbury line and the old Town Farm Lane. It leaves the east side of Billerica Avenue and runs about 1,900 feet southeast through the campus, with a short spur among the buildings, and ends short of High Street and Town Farm Lane. The buildings have no addresses of their own on the drive: the assessor lists them as "101 Bldg 2," "Bldg 4," "Bldg 5" and "Bldg 6 Billerica Av," and the registry's property index has no entries under the name Billerica Park.
The land was assembled in 1983 and 1984. A plan of October 31, 1983 by Dana F. Perkins and Associates, Inc., of Lowell and Reading, for the owners, members of the Rotondi family and Artamia J. Fulchino, showed a parcel of 31.47 acres "on the easterly side of Billerica Avenue" in Billerica and a parcel of 8.80 acres in Tewksbury on the westerly side of North Billerica Road (Plan Book 143, Plan 37). Yvon Cormier Construction Corp. of Andover acquired the land in May 1984 and in December 1984 conveyed both parcels to Yvon Cormier as trustee of the Y-CEE Investment Trust. The first building, Building 2, was built about 1984 and was for years the offices of Purity Supreme, the supermarket chain, which had its headquarters in North Billerica. Building 2 stands on Lot 1 of a plan recorded in 1985 (Plan Book 150, Plan 7), and a plan recorded in 2000 (Plan Book 202, Plan 108) shows its right of way easement for access.
The other buildings followed in 1986, 1996 and 1997. In its present form, under the name Axis Park North, the campus has six buildings with about 450,000 square feet on 38 acres, "developed in stages between 1985 and 2001." The origin of the name Billerica Park for the drive has not been found in the town or registry records, and it has never been a public way.
References
- Wikipedia, Purity Supreme: the supermarket chain operated from a headquarters in North Billerica
- Bisnow Boston Deal Sheet: Axis Park North, six buildings on 38 acres, developed in stages between 1985 and 2001
- ConnectCRE, Jan. 16, 2023: Axis Park North at 101 Billerica Avenue, six buildings, 450,000 square feet, 38 acres