MassDOT will take bids on former RMV property next month
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Former RMV site in Worcester, outlined in yellow
As Worcester area residents adjust to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles moving from downtown to a former Big Y supermarket location at Route 20 and Sunderland Road, the move opens a prime piece of real estate in the city’s rapidly developing downtown.
The former site of the RMV offices and parking lot at 611 Main St. as well as a nearby parking lot at 25 Madison St. are owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, under the care and control of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
WBJ spoke with Craig McKeown, director of real estate in MassDOT Office of Real Estate and Asset Development, on Monday morning to find out what will happen to these properties.
Once 611 Main St. is cleared of MassDOT property, the parcel will be put up for sale in a sealed Request for Proposal bid process beginning in September.
McKeown did not say what date exactly the bidding would open, but that public notices by law must be posted at minimum once a week for the three weeks preceding the process in at least two newspapers. McKeown said that the Boston Globe would be one of those papers, the other according to law must be published outside of Boston.
A bid deposit would be required and bidders would need to demonstrate financial standing.
Newmark Group Inc., a publicly traded commercial real estate company with an office in Boston, will be representing the seller.
The RMV property wraps around 627 Main St., historically the Worcester Market Building. That property is owned by Whiting Building LLC of Nashua, N.H.
The property is zoned BG-6, general business, according to MassDOT and the Worcester City Planning Office, making it available for multifamily housing development.
The other RMV property, a parking lot at 25 Madison St., is currently being used by the City of Worcester for overflow parking for Polar Park. Ownership of this property will eventually be transferred to the city for a proposed $25 million fire station, to replace the aging fire station at 180 Southbridge St.
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