Report on the Real Property Owned and Leased by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts July 2009 Executive Office for Administration & Finance Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance David B. Perini, Commissioner Acknowledgements This report was prepared under the direction of David B. Perini, Commissioner of the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and H. Peter Norstrand, Deputy Commissioner for Real Estate Services. Linda Alexander manages and maintains the MAssets database used in this report. Martha Goldsmith, Director of the Office of Leasing and State Office Planning, as well as Thomas Kinney of the Office of Programming, assisted in preparation of the leasing portion of this report. TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Report Organization 5 Table 1: Summary of Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by Executive Office 11 Total land acreage, buildings, and gross square feet under each executive office Table 2: Summary of Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by County or Region 15 Total land acreage, buildings, and gross square feet under each County Table 3: Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by Executive Office and Agency 19 Detail site names with acres, buildings, and gross square feet under each agency Table 4: Improvements and Land at Each State Facility by Municipality 75 Detail building list under each facility with site acres and building area by city/town Table 5: Commonwealth Active Lease Agreements by Municipality 203 Leases between the Commonwealth and public & private entities Table 6: Property Under DCAM by Status, Agency and Facility Name with Improvements 213 Surplus, occupied, space sharing leases, easements, dispositions, county transfers Table 7: Commonwealth Land Acquired & Recorded in 2008 by Agency 257 Land acquisitions, predominantly environmental and agricultural restrictions Table 8: 2008 Completed Land Transactions by the Office of Real Estate 229 Appendix I: Data Sources 235 Appendix II: Glossary of Terms 239 Appendix III: Municipality Index Key 247 Appendix IV: Data Reconciliation Forms 253 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THE COMMONWEALTH’S REAL ESTATE PORTFOLIO This report provides a listing of the Commonwealth’s real property holdings and a listing of property leased by the Commonwealth1 as of July 1, 2009. The total Commonwealth land holdings are 649,806 acres, or approximately 12% of the total land area of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth owns +-13,364 individual land parcels. That amounts to 429 additional land parcels from the last publication of this report in December 2007 or is an increase of about 21,000 acres. Parcel size ranges from a Massachusetts Highway Department right-of-way of six square feet in East Boston to the 11,400 acre October Mountain State Forest parcel in Washington under the care and control of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. The property uses are varied and include forests, parks, watersheds, swamps, beaches, fish hatcheries, islands, highway rights-of-way, conservation or agricultural restrictions, court parking lots, ice rinks, dams, school or hospital grounds as well as former County properties. The Commonwealth’s buildings and other improvements, total 79,188,463 gross square feet. There are 6,367 structures on the land. These improvements are quite varied in both size and type: trailers, barns, houses, pools, armories, highway salt and sand sheds, fire observation towers, office buildings, prisons, courts, hospitals and universities. Many state agencies maintain care and control over this variety of real property, which is located in almost every City and Town across the Commonwealth. The largest Commonwealth-owned and operated facility, the University of Massachusetts with its main campus at Amherst, maintains 15,855,668 gross square feet of building space and in various municipalities across Massachusetts occupies 4,301 acres of land with specialized uses. ADMINISTRATIVE ALLOCATION OF STATE OWNED-PROPERTY Among state Executive Offices, an overview of the distribution of the Commonwealth real property portfolio shows that the greatest amount of land is managed by the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which maintains +-606,662 acres, or approximately 11% of the total land in the Commonwealth. Second in land holdings is the Executive Office of Public Safety with +-17,955 acres. Following these are Health and Human Services +-7,166 acres, the Board of Higher Education with +-7,151 acres, Transportation and Public Works managing +-7,050 acres (not counting roads) and Administration and Finance with +-2,490 acres under its jurisdiction. The Board of Higher Education operates the greatest amount of building and improvement space, with +-31,101,329 gross square feet under its management. Second is the Executive Office of Health and Human Services managing +-11,214,034 gross square feet. Next the Executive Office of Public Safety oversees +-10,210,302 gross square feet of building space. Following are Energy and Environmental Affairs controlling +-7,246,280 gross square feet, Administration and Finance utilizing +-6,560,792 gross square feet and Transportation and Public Works managing +-4,876,936 gross square feet while Judiciary owns and operates +-4,826,836 gross square feet of building space across the Commonwealth. 1 Data presented includes all recorded Commonwealth-owned land and improvements except the following: • Most land owned by Commonwealth Public Authorities • Land under state highways, roads, bridges, etc. County properties still under the care and control of operating counties (Suffolk, Norfolk, Plymouth, Bristol, Dukes, and Nantucket counties) are not included in this report, unless the Commonwealth leases them for state functions. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management Report on Real Property July 2009 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY GEOGRAPHIC ALLOCATION OF STATE-OWNED PROPERTY The total land owned by the Commonwealth is 649,806 acres and the total building space is 79,188,463 gross square feet. The larger portion of Commonwealth-owned land is located in western Massachusetts, while most buildings are located in eastern Massachusetts. In western Massachusetts, in the geographic area known as Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire and Hamden counties, the Commonwealth owns +-332,934 acres of land or slightly more than half of all land area owned by the Commonwealth. In eastern Massachusetts in the geographic area of Essex, Suffolk, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Bristol, Barnstable, Nantucket, and Dukes there are +-170,052 acres of state-owned land. In the county of Worcester alone the Commonwealth owns +-146,821 acres. The combined total of Worcester and the eastern counties equals +-316,873 acres or 16,061 acres less than in only four western counties. In the same Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden counties, there are +-16,617,202 gross square feet of state-owned buildings and improvements. In county of Worcester, the Commonwealth maintains +-13,545,896 gross square feet of building space. In the remaining eastern counties there are +-48,998,697 gross square feet. Thus, the combined total of Worcester and the eastern counties add up to +-62,570,259 gross square feet of Massachusetts structures or nearly 80% of the total of the Commonwealth’s improvements. PROPERTIES LEASED BY THE COMMONWEALTH As a tenant, the Commonwealth leases six million, eight hundred eighteen thousand eight hundred and thirty (6,818,830) usable square feet of space. This space is used by Commonwealth agencies across the state and in other states. The Commonwealth’s needs are diverse; space leased by Commonwealth agencies includes office suites, residential facilities, courts facilities, classrooms and laboratories, parking spaces, and various other types of space. DCAM’s Office of Leasing and State Office Planning in addition to securing space for the Commonwealth agencies to use, maintains and updates the vast amount of data behind each lease. Presently they oversee leases for 4,607,580 usable square feet of office space at 349 sites and 2,211,250 usable square feet of non office area at 111 sites. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management Report on Real Property July 2009 2 Organization REPORT ORGANIZATION This report contains eight tables offering various ways of organizing, analyzing and displaying information about the property owned and leased by the Commonwealth. Table 1, Summary of Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by Executive Office: This table shows statistical groupings of Commonwealth-owned property by Executive Office and User Agency. The table lists the total land area in acres, the total number of improvements and the gross square footage of all improvements for each agency and executive office. Table 2, Summary of Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by County or Region: This table is a statistical grouping of Commonwealth-owned property by County. Since some county governments have been abolished in recent years, where applicable, the names used refer to the geographic region they once encompassed and not the governmental body1. This table shows the executive office overseeing property in each county. Summarized are total acreage, number of improvements and gross square footage of improvements for each executive office within each county. Table 3, Commonwealth-Owned Real Property by Executive Office and Agency: This table is a facility detailed list depicting Commonwealth-owned facilities by Executive Office and User Agency. The facility or site name under each agency is alphabetical