A commercial building in Natick, which once housed a Chuck E. Cheese location, has been sold for $7 million to an entity managed by the president of Colonial Automotive Group in Acton.
The property, located at 801 Worcester St., sold in a deal finalized on Friday, according to Middlesex South Registry of Deeds records. The site was purchased by Acton-based Golf City Holdings LLC, which is managed by Lawrence Gordon, the president of Colonial Automotive.
The site was sold by an entity managed by Cognex, a Natick-based machine vision and industrial barcode reader manufacturer. The firm had used part of the site as a sales training center, according to documents posted as part of a LoopNet listing for the property.
Cognex bought the site for $1.7 million in 2007, according to registry records.
Part of the building had been home to a Chuck E. Cheese. The location operated there until 2020, when it closed alongside 45 other Chuck E. Cheese locations as the company dealt with bankruptcy and the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to MassLive.
Chuck E. Cheese continues to operate across the country, albeit with a smaller footprint than it had during its heydays. Its lone Central Massachusetts location is at 50 Southwest Cutoff in Worcester, according to the firm’s website.
The property joins a plaza in Acton as a site purchased by Gordon.
The 24,800-square-foot building at the site was built in 1985, according to Town of Natick property records. The two-acre site received a 2026 tax assessment value of $5.38 million.
Eric Casey is the managing editor at Worcester Business Journal, who primarily covers the manufacturing and real estate industries.
