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Cummings
Center offers more than 2 million square feet of first-class,
fully built out office, executive office, medical office,
laboratory and other research space located next to ponds
and walking trails, and adjacent to historic downtown Beverly,
minutes from Boston.
An extremely
pleasant one-mile long paved walking trail circles both Upper
and Lower Shoe Pond. There is abundant bird life on the ponds
at all times of year, variously including ducks, white swans,
gulls, blue heron, snowy egrets and, of course, the ubiquitous
Canada geese.
The Cummings
Center site itself is reportedly the oldest continuously used
commercial business site in the United States. The town government
of Salem approved a tidal grist mill on the property in 1642,
which existed in full operation until the 1890's. Then other
interests used the docks for about 10 years until United Shoe
Machinery Company took it over in 1903.
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