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O'Brien Commercial Properties completes four leases totaling 59,790 s/f

O'Brien Commercial Properties (OCP) recently completed 59,790 s/f in leases including: * Joseph Belsito and Eric O'Brien of OCP brokered the recent long term lease of 47,772 s/f of space and additional land at 10 Granite Rd. in Acton. The tenant, Marcus Lewis Enterprises, Inc., will take over operations of the existing tennis facility once the existing club completes their summer sessions. The building, located on 14.2 acres of land, contains six indoor tennis courts and is supplemented by four outdoor courts. OCP exclusively represented landlord, Granite Road Real Estate, and directly procured the tenant. * Northeast Monitoring has leased 2,812 s/f at 141 Parker St. in Maynard, Mass. from Lexvest-Parker, LLC. Belsito represented the landlord and directly procured the tenant in this transaction. 141 Parker St. was the former Digital Credit Union headquarters and was recently purchased by Lexvest-Parker, LLC. * Anthony Luzzi Financial Services has leased 1,250 s/f on the first floor of 280 Ayer Rd. in Harvard, Mass. Landlord, Yukon Holdings, LLC, purchased the 14,000 s/f brick office building through OCP in 2013. Paul Mulroy, senior vice president at OCP, represented Yukon in this lease and directly procured this tenant. * Belsito and O'Brien represented Concentric Devices in their recent relocation. Concentric Devices signed a long term lease for 7,956 s/f of office and manufacturing space at 753 Forest St. in Marlborough, Mass. Concentric Devices is an injection molder of terminal blocks used by public utilities and solar power generators.
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