Report on the Real Property Owned and Leased by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance Report on the Real Property Owned and Leased by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Published February 10, 2021 Prepared by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Carol W. Gladstone, Commissioner TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction and Report Organization 2 Table 1 Summary of Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by Executive Office 6 Total land acreage, buildings (number and square footage), improvements (number and area) Includes State and Authority-owned buildings Table 2 Summary of Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by County 9 Total land acreage, buildings (number and square footage), improvements (number and area) Includes State and Authority-owned buildings Table 3 Summary of Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by Executive Office and Agency 14 Total land acreage, buildings (number and square footage), improvements (number and area) Includes State and Authority-owned buildings Table 4 Summary of Buildings, Improvements and Land at State Facilities by Municipality 36 Total land acreage, buildings (number and square footage), improvements (number and area) Includes State and Authority-owned buildings Table 5 Commonwealth Active Lease Agreements by Municipality 221 Private leases through DCAMM on behalf of state agencies APPENDICES Appendix I Summary of Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by Executive Office 231 Version of Table 1 above but for State-owned only (excludes Authorities) Appendix II County-Owned Buildings Occupied by Sheriffs and the Trial Court 234 Appendix III List of Conservation/Agricultural/Easements Held by the Commonwealth 276 Appendix IV Data Sources 296 Appendix V Glossary of Terms 298 Appendix VI Municipality Associated Counties Index Key 304 1 INTRODUCTION The Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) is pleased to publish the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Real Property Report for 2021. The Report includes Commonwealth property, both owned and leased, and improvements at each facility, catalogued in a series of five tables. This report is the product of ongoing updating and refining of data and has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 7C, Section 39. The information contained therein was compiled and analyzed by the Commonwealth Asset Management Information System (“CAMIS”), an enterprise-wide platform overseen by the DCAMM Office of Finance and Administration to manage our land and building portfolio. REPORT ORGANIZATION This report contains five tables which provide different ways of organizing, analyzing and displaying information about property owned and leased by the Commonwealth. Data for this report was extracted on January 28, 2021, except for Leasing data in Table 5, which was pulled as of January 12, 2021. Tables 1-4 include Commonwealth-owned land and buildings, and those owned by higher education building authorities – Massachusetts State College Building Authority (MSCBA), and UMass Building Authority (UMBA). DCAMM has worked with these authorities to collect their information. Each respective authority, however, should be contacted directly for a definitive inventory. Assets owned by other authorities such as MWRA, MBTA, and Massport are not included in this report. These authorities should be contacted directly for information on their holdings. TABLE 1: SUMMARY OF COMMONWEALTH-OWNED REAL PROPERTY BY EXECUTIVE OFFICE This table provides groupings of properties by Executive Office and State Agency. The table lists the total land area in acres, the total number of buildings and improvements, and the gross square footage of all buildings and improvements for each State Agency and Executive Office. TABLE 2: SUMMARY OF COMMONWEALTH-OWNED REAL PROPERTY BY COUNTY This table provides groupings of properties by County and Executive Office. The table lists the total land area in acres, the total number of buildings and improvements, and the gross square footage of buildings and improvements for each Executive Office within each County. TABLE 3: COMMONWEALTH-OWNED REAL PROPERTY BY EXECUTIVE OFFICE AND AGENCY This table provides groupings of properties by Executive Office, State Agency and Facility. The facility or site name under each Agency is alphabetical by municipality and provides the total land area in acres, the number of buildings and improvements, and gross square footage for each facility. Open land sites will not show structures or gross square feet. TABLE 4: BUILDINGS, IMPROVEMENTS AND LAND AT STATE FACILITIES BY MUNICIPALITY This table provides a detailed list of buildings and improvements at each Commonwealth facility. This table is organized by City and Town, showing alphabetically each State Agency managing a facility or overseeing a site in that Municipality. The total acreage for each site is listed, the name of each building/improvement at that site is listed, and the total number of any same type structure (for instance 3 sheds) is listed, as well as the gross square footage of each structure. Open land sites will not show structures or gross square footage. Totals for Commonwealth property in each Municipality are shown. 2 This listing is determined by the reporting of all land and buildings/improvements in a City or Town by either the State Agency or the Municipality. TABLE 5: COMMONWEALTH ACTIVE LEASE AGREEMENTS BY MUNICIPALITY This table lists sites occupied by a State Agency, but not owned by the Commonwealth. Table 5 provides the start and end date of the lease agreement, location of the space, and building usable square footage occupied. For more detailed information about a specific lease agreement, please contact the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, Office of Leasing. KEY FEATURES OF THE REAL PROPERTY REPORT Several enhancements were added to last year’s report format, and these are continued with the 2021 Real Property Report (RPR): SEPARATE REPORTING FOR BUILDING VS. IMPROVEMENT DATA Tables 1 – 4 provide detail on the types of assets being reported. Data for vertical and horizontal improvements are reported separately from our major and minor buildings for greater transparency. DATA ON AUTHORITY-OWNED AND COUNTY-OWNED BUILDINGS Buildings owned by the UMass Building Authority (UMBA) and the Mass State College Building Authority (MSCBA) are an important part of our public higher education system. The RPR includes these assets in Tables 1- 4. Most of these buildings are located on Commonwealth-owned land and are reported with their respective campuses. In rare cases when MSCBA or UMBA owns the land, they are listed separately as an independent authority – see page 2 of Table 1, for example. In Table 4, our most detailed listing of land and buildings, MSCBA and UMBA buildings are listed with their campus – italicized in the report for easy identification. Other authorities such as MWRA, MBTA, and Massport are not included in the Real Property Report. Appendix I provides a summary of just Commonwealth-owned assets - excluding MSCBA and UMBA buildings. Appendix II lists county-owned land and buildings that are occupied by various Sheriffs and Trial Court Departments. These buildings and associated land are not included in any other tables in the report. REPORTING ON CONSERVATION RESTRICTIONS, AGRICULTURAL RESTRICTIONS, AND EASEMENTS In the past, Reports had included Property with Conservation Restrictions and Agricultural Preservation Restrictions plus certain easements as part of the Real Property Report “Commonwealth Owned” portfolio. In this year’s report they are separated out of the Commonwealth-Owned portfolio and instead are contained in Appendix III. This reflects the fact that legal ownership of these lands remains with a municipal or private party. The Commonwealth only owns Restrictions on certain “development rights” tied to the property. ONGOING DATA QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS The annual Real Property Report presents a snapshot of a dynamic land and building portfolio. Since the last report was published in February 2020, DCAMM has continued with systematic quality review and technology enhancements for CAMIS reporting. 3 This work continues in partnership with our CAMIS user-agencies who have care and control of state facilities. For example, a significant year-over-year increase in non-building improvements reflects DCR’s addition of playgrounds and parking lots on existing DCR lands to their portfolio as they expand the use of CAMIS to manage their facilities. Over the past three years, the DCAMM team has also designated surface parking lots on existing lands (particularly at higher education campuses) that were not previously identified in our inventory of improvements. HOW TO FIND A COMMONWEALTH-OWNED PROPERTY If you know which State Agency manages or occupies a facility - See Appendix V, Glossary of Terms, for a helpful explanation of the acronyms for agencies as well as other terms used in this report. Look in Table 1 to find the Executive Office and Agency of a property. In Table 3 the same Executive Office and Agency will be listed by Municipality with all the properties under that Agency. Finally, in Table 4 look up the Municipality and buildings/improvements will be listed under all facilities under each Agency. For example, to find the Bay State Correctional Center knowing it is managed by DOC, you would find DOC in the Glossary of Terms spelled out as the Department of Correction. Looking up DOC in Table 1 you see DOC listed under the Executive Office of Public Safety. Looking through the section on the