Municipal

Dacon Breaks Ground for Centennial Crossing

Centennial Crossing

Rendering Centennial Crossing

Peabody, MA –Dacon Corp., a Natick-based design-build firm, joined Peabody city officials and members of ownership, the Lucey Family, at a groundbreaking ceremony recently for Centennial Crossing, a 40,000sf, multiple tenant retail and commercial business complex located at Four First Ave. in Centennial Park.

Centennial Crossing will offer small retail, offices, medical, research and development, general business, and light industrial space in the park creating new tenant services for the 1,200 employees who work there.

Unit size ranges from 1,500 – 6,000sf. There will be eight units totaling 13,000sf of retail space at the entrance of the new complex which directly faces Centennial Dr., the main corridor for Centennial Park.

The commercial area will have eight units totaling 13,000sf of space on the left side and nine units totaling 14,000sf of 18-foot clear ceiling height space on the right.

The project team includes Beals Assoc.; RRC Eng.; J. Masterson Const.; Newstress; Steel Structures; Platinum Fire; Enviro. Sys.; and NE Power.

“Steel Structures, Inc. is pleased to have worked with Dacon Corporation on the Centennial Crossing project,” said Mike Wolinski owner of Steel Structures, a fourth generation family owned business located in Braintree. Through the unfailing cooperation of Dacon and the conscientious effort of the Steel Structures team this project was brought to a successful timely conclusion for steel erection and placement during this very busy holiday season. The Centennial Crossing project is a strong representation of the expertise of Steel Structures in coordinating and fulfilling its customers’ needs.”

Kevin Lucey remarked,  “Mayor Bettencourt has welcomed this project with open arms since we pitched the idea to him last Spring. Karen Sawyer of the Community Development Office, and all the city departments have  been nothing less than outstanding in the way they have helped us get to this point as quickly as we have. Mayor Bettencourt and his team are a great example of city departments working together towards a common goal of a project that is good for the City of Peabody.”

“Centennial Crossing is being developed to create a much needed retail presence in Centennial park and to attract new medical and commercial businesses looking for high quality office space to the City of Peabody.”

“Our units start at just 1500 square feet so we are looking to attract the small to medium size business. We are just getting started with our marketing efforts and we are very pleased with the strong response from prospective tenants we have received so far. ”

May 2014 is the anticipated occupancy date for the first tenants.

This will be the eighth project for Dacon in Centennial Park and the fifth project Dacon has designed and constructed with John and Kevin Lucey. This is also the third project for the Lucey Family in Centennial Park.