Waters of McLaughry Comm'l. leases 3,000 s/f to Birth of the Blues
Bruce Waters, CCIM, senior broker for McLaughry Commercial, recently signed a lease between Birth of the Blues and Glen Road Plaza. Birth of the Blues, which has been owned and operated by Dave Helmberg for over two decades in the Upper Valley and Barre, Vt., will relocate to a larger facility from the K-Mart Plaza to the GlenRoad Plaza in early 2010. The new store will have 3,000 s/f of apparel, jackets, accessories and related general merchandise.
Birth of the Blues joins other retailers including Illuminations, Country Cobbler, Hobbies and Things, Triple Play and others in the 40,000 s/f mixed-use Glen Road Plaza.
Westborough, MA According to Marianne Sullivan, president of Sullivan & Sullivan Auctioneers, her firm will be bringing Westboro Executive Park to foreclosure auction on Friday, October 23, 2026 at 12PM. The offering consists of three buildings on three separate parcels totaling 244,335 s/f of mixed use space on 14.9 acres in the MetroWest Business Corridor.
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