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BOSTON, MA – January 25, 2022

Today, Bulfinch announced the acquisition of the former Muzi Ford property on Highland Ave in Needham, Massachusetts. Bulfinch intends to redevelop the property as a marquee headquarters location.

The nearly 10-acre site was rezoned earlier this year to allow up to 500,000 SF of development. The property is located just off Route 128, and less than one mile to Needham Heights station. The location is ideal for a potential company headquarters, with visibility from the highway.

“We’ve always recognized the potential of the site, and after closely monitoring the property’s status through the rezoning, we are pleased to have finally acquired the property,” says Eric Schlager, CEO of Bulfinch. “With our significant development experience along the 128 corridor, we look forward to completing a first-class development that will draw interest from the region’s leading firms.”

The deal was brokered by Jeremy A. Freid, SIOR, of 128 CRE in conjunction with Boston Realty Advisors.

“We were honored to represent the Muzi family as their trusted advisor in the sale of their generationally owned asset,” says Freid. “As a geographically focused commercial real estate company, we are very excited to see how Bulfinch will transform the site to benefit both the Needham community and the surrounding region.”

Bulfinch has a history of successfully envisioning and repositioning retail properties; notably, repositioning the former Atrium Mall in Chestnut Hill, MA to what is now Life Time Center, a 286,000 SF state-of-the-art, one-of-a-kind wellness and medical destination. Life Time Center is anchored by Life Time Fitness, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Newton Wellesley Hospital.