Center for Savings

In conjunction with National Grid we just completed the replacement of nearly 15,000 light fixtures and ballasts with energy-efficient fixtures throughout Cummings Center! The energy-efficient upgrade is projected to save a reported 800,000 kilowatt hours of electricity each year, for an estimated annual savings of $130,000 in client energy costs!

The Gift of Fine Dining

This Holiday Season, consider treating your friends and family to a giftcard for an evening of fine dining and spirits at Beacon Grille (owned and operated by Cummings Properties). Rich, succulent steaks, top-of-the-catch seafood, and an impressive array of specialty entrées, side dishes, wines, and cocktails await each fortunate recipient.

Scheduled to open January 2010, the newest major amenity at TradeCenter 128 in Woburn will seat 250 diners in contemporary comfort. Beacon Grille will be well worth the trip from all over greater Boston.

To purchase gift cards, visit http://www.thebeacongrille.com/.

Here We Grow Again!

TradeCenter Executive Suites is expanding for the third time in only six months at TradeCenter 128 in Woburn! An additional 30 fully-furnished, expertly staffed offices and mini-suites are being added. Large conference/function room and "virtual office" are also available. Lease for the day, week, month, or year by calling Patricia at 781-569-5999 today.

Convenience and Comfort at Cabot

Who doesn't like that new office smell? Especially when it's at the junction of I-93 and I-95 in Woburn! The construction of Cummings Properties' newest office building at 8 Cabot Road continues at a blistering pace in anticipation of a January 2010 completion. This four-story, first-class building offers convenient access, close proximity to Anderson Regional Transportation Center, nearby Woburn Mall and Commerce Way retail stores, and energy-efficient construction. For leasing information call Eric Anderson at 781-932-7038.

Gov. Patrick welcomes Biocell Center to Cummings

Biocell Center, a European biotechnology company that is reportedly the only firm in the world to harvest and preserve amniotic stem cells, opened its North American headquarters and laboratory at Cummings Properties' 200 Boston Avenue in Medford, Massachusetts on October 22, 2009. The grand opening was attended by Govenor Deval Patrick. Read More

Spring to Life

A fountain has added life and visual energy to the scenic pond at TradeCenter 128 while adding beneficial aeration to the pond. Campus patrons in the adjacent "park in the park" may now enjoy this new "office oasis."

Welcome to Sudbury

144 North Road, Cummings' latest addition to its tranquil Sudbury business campus, recently opened its doors to its first clients. AP Insurance, Burning Hollow Technologies, New Age Electrical Services, tekCynosure, and Wayside Wealth Management all chose the environmentally-friendly, energy-conserving features of the first-class, LEED-designed office building. For leasing information, contact Robb LaBossiere at 781-932-7049.

Flick the Savings Switch

Cummings Properties, in conjunction with National Grid, will replace or retrofit substantially all of the building-standard lights at Cummings Center with more energy-efficient lighting. Resident firms will enjoy the substantial benefits of this no-cost program in their future electric bills, all the more important in light of increasing energy costs. It's another instance by which Cummings Properties "going green, saves clients green!"

Executive Suites are Here!

Clients are raving about the flexibility of TradeCenter Suites, now open at TradeCenter 128! Accountants, sales reps, architects and other professionals are renting furnished offices and meeting rooms by the day, week, or month while choosing from a plethora of additional available services. It's office space a-la-carte! Call 781-933-3335 and speak with TradeCenter Suites manager Patricia Whelchel.

Convenient Conference Centers

Host your next meeting at a Cummings Community Conference Room. Clients are offered complimentary periodic use of these large rooms in Cummings Center (above), West Cummings Park and TradeCenter 128. If you a need catering for your event, Cummings Properties is also home to many restaurants and food service providers.

No Wires? No Problem!

Clients are connecting at TradeCenter 128, Woburn’s latest WiFi Hotspot! Patrons dining at Dana’s Café or sipping an iced dunkachino in the building's sun-splashed atrium can now check email, Twitter, or read the latest business news. It’s yet another convenient on-site amenity at Route 128’s premier office complex.

Spring Into Space

Cummings Properties in-house team of landscapers take great pride in making sure all of the properties are looking their best year'round. The spring season is especially pleasing, as the vibrant colors of flowering plantings help accent a building's exterior appeal. This natural splendor is a gratifying reward after the long winter months of snow plowing!

Need it Now?

Looking for "ready-to-work" office space with the flexibility of a short-term or multi-year lease? TradeCenter Executive Suites offer short or long term, pre-furnished office, meeting or conference space with plentiful on-site services. Rent by the day, week, month, or year. Plans for this high-quality facility include the conveniences of a central receptionist, Internet cafe, and access to printing and telephone services, and more! It's office a-la-carte! For additional information, contact Patricia Whelchel.

Aesthetic & Conservation Hall(mark)s

Hallway upgrades throughout the West Cummings Park midrises are nearly complete. New features include vibrant carpeting, accent walls, elegant wall sconces, glass entrances, upgraded energy-efficient light fixtures, granite tile and maple accents. In addition to being visually more appealing, the lighter and brighter common area is more energy efficient, too!

More Parking on Deck

Free parking at Cummings Center will soon become even more plentiful! Construction continues on a new parking deck at the north end of Cummings Center, directly off Balch Street. The new parking deck will provide clients and their patrons with an additional 170 parking spaces in close proximity to the building. Slated for completion this summer, it is another example of Cummings Center's continuing effort to provide additional conveniences for its clients.

Learning the Ropes

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Task Force urban search and rescue team spent three days training at the Cummings Center parking garage recently. "Parking garages are typically good training sites," said Team leader Mark Foster. The advanced "ropes operation course" was taught to 35 team members who practiced using the ropes to move equipment, patients, rescuers and rescue dogs. "In any rescue team, you may need to lower someone into a hole or off a building," Foster said. To see more photos from the training, visit wickedlocal.com/Beverly.

Saves Energy and Looks Great!

In Cummings Properties continuing efforts to improve the look and energy efficiency of its properties, in-house construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the facade upgrade at 340 Fordham Road in Wilmington. In addition to dramatically enhancing the building's exterior appeal, the new insulating synthetic stucco surface and low-E glass windows also help to lower energy costs. Although the majority of building is now leased, the opportunity for a business seeking a 1,500 SF suite remains!

Caffeine and Carburetors

If the sight and sound of an estimated 350 exotic racers were not enough to get a car enthusiast's motor running, then the java was. Presented by yuppieracing.net, the "Cars and Coffee" event was held last weekend at TradeCenter 128. Clients Dunkin' Donuts and the Lobby Shop fueled the crowd's thirst for BMWs, Lotuses, Vipers, Porsches, and more.

Innovative Design

Inspired by a recent Boston Globe column titled, "Let’s redefine New England’s brand image," Cummings has created the "Innovate in Massachusetts" logo, which is prominently displayed alongside the Massachusetts-made electrical inverter for the 100KW solar panel array at TradeCenter 128 (Cummings Properties Sustainability Manager Gary Gresh). Cummings Properties has aided innovative entrepreneurs in Massachusetts for nearly four decades in getting their ventures off the ground with incubator space such as the Emerging Technology Centers. To learn more about growing businesses, visit the Massachusetts Association of Business Incubators website.

Dining in the Park

Wondering where to walk to for lunch while in Cummings Park? Read what real people have been saying on yelp.com about the restaurants in and around the Park:


Ambassador Indian Restaurant
"Fell in love w/this place on my first visit! It's one of two Woburn restaurants I must visit each time I'm in town." MORE

The Sub Factory
Today I had lunch at the Sub Factory with my friend and let me tell you..it did NOT disappoint!! MORE

The Far East Cafe
My co-workers and I venture here at least once a month (if not more) for their lunch all-you-can-eat buffet. MORE

For more dining options at the intersection of i-93 and I-95, click here.

Spring in Your Step

Now that March has roared in like a lion, it seems like a good time to warm up to the thought of taking a walk outside in the coming months. With the imminent arrival of warmer weather, patrons in West Cummings Park can stroll over to "Park in the Park" and enjoy a leisurely, sun-splashed lunch. Fresh-air-fans at Cummings Center and TradeCenter 128 will enjoy the tranquility and natural beauty of the pondside walking paths. Get your walking shoes ready, March leaves like a lamb in 29 days!

Seeding the Business Landscape

As a way to promote entrepreneurship, Cummings Properties will again help sponsor business plan competitions hosted by MIT Enterprise Forum, Tufts University, Northeastern University, Boston University, Babson College, and Harvard Biotechnology Club. Many previous competition winners are now among the area’s leading emerging technology firms. CPL will present this year’s winners with Cummings Properties Awards totaling more than $300,000 in commercial space rent credits.

The Weight is Almost Over

A branch of the established Beverly Athletic Club is opening at Cummings Center, just in time to get into "summer shape!" The facility is now under construction at 600 Cummings Center in the former location of the North Shore Athletic Club. Clients are "pumped up" in anticipation of the athletic club joining the substantial roster of amenities at Cummings Center.

A Banner Day

The largest marketing pieces produced to date by the Cummings Graphics Department have arrived! These Texas-sized "Lease Now" banners measure 10 feet by 29 feet and are mounted on the exterior of the TradeCenter 128 drum and drive-thru annex. The banners are made from a durable vinyl mesh material allowing patrons in the suites behind the banner to see through them.

Leasing On-line

Can leasing space get any easier than Cummings Properties one-sheet lease? Associate property manager Tom Maregni thinks so! A client of Tom's at 38 Montvale Avenue in Stoneham wanted to expand to an adjacent vacant office. In a series of five brief emails over a short two-hour period, Tom and the client agreed on the terms and legally memorialized the deal! The client was pleased and the keys to its new office were delivered within the hour! To fill-up your shopping cart, check out our space available list here.

Doing the Moonwalk

All of the anti-gravity, none of the space travel! New TradeCenter 128 client, The Sports Spa, now features the Alter-G antigravity treadmill which was designed by NASA engineers and is reportedly capable of unloading up to 80 percent of a user’s body weight. It is the only treadmill of its kind in Massachusetts. It’s one small step for man, one giant step for The Sports Spa!

Wild Kingdom

The natural surroundings at 144 North Road in Sudbury got a little wilder with the arrival of a rafter of wild turkey. The beautiful views of the Sudbury River basin are further enhanced by occaisional glimpses of wild turkey, deer, and other wildlife. LEED compliant construction helps protect the environment. The first tenant of this recently completed building will move in this February.

Pedestrians in the Sky, with Bridges

It's a bird...it's a plane...no wait, it's a third pedestrian bridge soaring across the skyline at Cummings Center! This dramatic, modern contrast to the rugged concrete buildings spans Center Drive and extends from the third floor of building 900 directly into building 100. Clad with a glass and aluminum skin, these three gleaming structures provide excellent direct access for clients on the upper floors and protect pedestrians from the elements. General manager Steve Drohosky says, "These are just another part of our constant improvement program at this city within a city."

A Saucey Addition to Cummings Center

Pulled Pork, Pondside - Grab a bib for some sauce-drippin' ribs! BBQ fans in Beverly are rejoicing at the opening of the new The American BBQ, at the Cummings Center Pondside Suites! The Phantom Gourmet raved that "The American BBQ is true to its identity, with domestic old world style and a heck of a lot of heart... the wood smoked barbecue is awesome, and the prices cannot be matched." Click here to view The American BBQ’s menu. You may also call them at 978-921-1212.

Here Comes the Sun!

Cummings Properties completed the first phase of a major 200 kW photovoltaic solar panel installation at TradeCenter 128 in Woburn. Following approval by local authorities, Cummings employees assembled and installed the 518 - 3' x 5' solar panels in a 36-hour period.

The solar panel array will produce more than 107,000 kilowatts of very green power per year. To view a real time graph of the power generated by the panels, click here.

Partially funded by a grant by the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, the panel array will generate upwards of 10 percent of the common area lighting and HVAC systems at 300 TradeCenter. It is among the largest solar installations to date in Massachusetts.

The system consists of 518 Canadian Solar panels, a 95 kW Solectria Inverter, and Unirac support racks supplied by Munro Distributing of Fall River, Massachusetts.

Energy Star Honor

900 Cummings Center has just received the prestigious Energy Star rating. This nationally recognized distinction identifies recipients as being amongst the most energy efficient buildings in the nation. Other Company buildings which have received the Energy Star rating are 92 Montvale Avenue in Stoneham and 196 Boston Avenue in Medford.

All Signs Point to Wilmington

Commuters coming off I-93 at Exit 39 in Wilmington will soon be treated to the sight of the renovated 340 Fordham Road building. A 4-foot by 8-foot sign displaying the rendering of the building was created by Cummings Design Department members Ben Eaton and Suzanne Lee. As part of the renovation, 340 Fordham will receive a new energy-efficient synthetic stucco exterior, new entries, doors and windows. The 30,000 SF, one-story office/R&D building is available now for lease.

Good Service is a Year-round Commitment!

This weekend brought yet another winter storm to the Boston area. A reported 13 total inches fell between Sunday and Monday, but the Cummings' Snow Team was hard at work making sure that the abundant free-parking lots of Cummings Properties were clear for the arrival of clients first thing Monday morning.

Annual Employee Party

More than 300 Cummings employees and their guests enjoyed an evening of dining, dancing and camaraderie at the 2009 Annual Employee Party. Thirteen ten-year anniversary employees, two twenty-year anniversary employees and three thirty-year anniversary employees were all honored at the gala event. With nearly 40 years in the greater Boston commercial real estate market, Cummings employees have a cumulative 2,000-plus years of experience!