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O'Brien of Greater Boston Commercial sells two buildings totaling 37,000 s/f

Bret O'Brien of Greater Boston Commercial Properties, Inc. recently sold two buildings totaling 37,000 s/f. O'Brien represented the buyer John Day in the sale of 240 Maple St. 240 Maple St. is a 20,000 s/f freestanding block building, which when it was completed in 2007 was leased by O'Brien to Clear Vu Industries. Clear Vu Industries vacated the building in 2010, and the property was subsequently foreclosed on by Middlesex Federal. Day purchased the property for $1.25 million from Middlesex Federal for his company J. Brian Day, which specializes in restoration for water, fire, mold and cleaning for general disaster relief. The building is located on a 6.72 acre lot, which includes a pad site for a second industrial building, and was previously permitted at 30,000 s/f. 240 Maple St. will provide a secondary location to the company's site on Rte. 1 in Plainville. The seller was represented by John Eysenbach of R. W. Holmes Company. In a separate transaction O'Brien represented Calvin Moore in the sale of his 17,000 s/f freestanding building at 12 Shirley St. in Ayer, and procured the buyer, Tai Kien. Tai Kien, who purchased the property for $360,000, will renovate the facility for clean room and high end medical manufacturing, in order to relocate his company Innovative Medical Design from Amherst, New Hampshire.
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