Rockland, MA – Calare Properties, Inc. and Hackman Capital Partners have been selected as finalists for the inaugural “Best in Boston Real Estate” award in the Industrial/Flex Use category by the Boston Business Journal for their repositioning of 112 Barnum Road in Devens, MA – the former Evergreen Solar facility. In order to ensure the successful transformation of the 448,000 square foot solar facility into one that could accommodate a wider range of tenant uses, the new owners enlisted the services of construction management firm Integrated Builders early on in the process.
“The expertise provided by Jay Dacey and Integrated Builders was pivotal to our repositioning of this state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and made it possible to not only attract our first tenant (Saint-Gobain), but to maximize the market potential of this asset for future tenants,” said Bill Manley, Founder & CEO of Calare Properties. “It is truly an honor to be recognized by the BBJ for this award, particularly in a region that has so much commercial real estate development going on.”
Located within the Barnum Business Park in Devens, the facility was originally constructed in 2010 by Evergreen Solar at the cost of approximately $440 per square foot, and included enhanced high capacity infrastructure features such as emergency diesel generators, internal waste water treatment, chemical bunkers and distribution systems, plus specialized air abatement, water cooling, and gas distribution systems. In order to create a multi-tenant building for the owner, Integrated Builders, ci Design and Bob MacCormack of Avid Engineers had to redesign the Direct Digital Control system at the facility.
“The Integrated Builders team has extensive background in sophisticated electrical and mechanical systems, and we were able to reconfigure chillers and handlers, electrical switch gear and conduits to provide a two tenant building with separate metering systems,” said Jay Dacey, president of Integrated Builders. “This was a complex undertaking, but we put a top notch team in place to meet the unique challenges of this project.”