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Welcome to Billerica, Massachusetts
Welcome to the town of Billerica’s Business and Community Guide. We hope
you will discover that Billerica, Massachusetts is a great place to work, live,
and do business.
Billerica is located 20 miles northwest of Boston, 20 miles south of Nashua,
NH and borders the city of Lowell. The town’s location and infrastructure
have made this area attractive for national and international companies. This
is partly because Billerica offers businesses access to high quality employees
and relatively low cost real estate. In addition, the town of Billerica works
closely with the business community to streamline the permitting process and
provide business resources, such as assistance with financing, training grants,
tax incentives, and real estate.
Billerica’s business development team would like to help you grow your
business in town. If you would like more information on expanding or
relocating your business to Billerica, please contact me at (978) 671-0942 or
visit the town’s website at www.town.billerica.ma.us.
Thank you,
John C. Curran
Billerica Town Manager
Town of Billerica • 365 Boston Road • Billerica, MA 01821 • 978-671-0942 • www.town.billerica.ma.us
Table of Contents
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Infrastructure
Workforce and Industry
Life Science Companies
Business Parks
Available Real Estate
Infrastructure Improvements
Quality of Life
Local Media
9. Business Networks
a. Billerica Community Alliance
b. Buy it in Billerica.com
Billerica Business Assistance
8. Billerica’s Business
Development Team
8. Economic Development Coordinator
8. Local Permitting
8. Tax Incentives
Educational Resources
10.Middlesex Community College
10.University of Massachusetts Lowell
11.Shawsheen Valley Regional
Technical School
11.Billerica Public School System
Massachusetts Resources
13.Massachusetts Small Business Development Center
13.Massachusetts Office of Business Development
13.MassDevelopment
14.Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation
14.Billerica Banks
Employment Resources
12.Workforce Training Grants
12.Greater Lowell Workforce Investment Board and Career Center
12.The Career Place
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Overview
Billerica, Massachusetts is ideally located within 30 minutes from Boston and Nashua, NH and within minutes
from Lowell, MA. Billerica’s location and infrastructure have enabled the town to attract high quality and
diverse businesses to the area. Businesses recognize that Billerica has available and relatively low cost real
estate and a business friendly climate. The Town of Billerica works closely with the business community to
provide assistance with available resources and to streamline the permitting process.
full-service general aviation airport.
It is a popular choice for business
executives who want convenient
access to Eastern Massachusetts and
“America’s Technology Region” situated
along the Route 128/95 and Route
495/3 corridors. www.massport.com
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Workforce and Industry
Billerica is hometown to nearly
40,000 residents and the workplace
of approximately 23,000 employees.
These employees work in hundreds of
companies and in diverse industries
throughout Billerica. These industries
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usinesses are able to
access Billerica easily.
Billerica is located 20 miles
northwest of Boston, 20 miles south
of Nashua, NH and borders the city
of Lowell. The town has three exits off
the newly renovated US Route 3 and
is within minutes from Routes 128,
495 and 93. These inner and outer
beltways around Boston lead directly
to Boston’s intermodal facilities. US
Route 3 and State Routes 3A and 129
are principal local highways, providing
easy access from any direction.
MBTA
Public transportation is available in
Billerica through the Lowell Regional
Transit Authority (LRTA) and the
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority
(MBTA). Bus transportation is available
throughout the town, while commuter
rail service from Lowell to Boston is
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available at the North Billerica train
station. For more information on the
public transportation services available
in Billerica, visit www.lrta.com or
www.mbta.com.
Billerica is within easy trucking
distance of the Boston docks and
Logan International Airport. In
addition, Billerica is minutes from
Hanscom Airport in Bedford,
Massachusetts. Hanscom Field is a
Logan International Airport
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Automated Machines
Banking & Financial
Biotechnology
Chemical
Communications
Computers
Data Acquisition
Defense & Aerospace
Energy
Fiberoptics
Lasers & Optics
Life Sciences
Medical Devices
Microwave Electronics
Pharmaceutical
Semiconductors
Solar and Alternative Energy
Surgical
Telecommunications
X-ray & Imaging Equipment
and more.
For a more comprehensive listing of
Billerica businesses, please visit
www.town.billerica.ma.us or
www.buyitinbillerica.com.
Life Science Companies
With numerous world-class life science
companies in residence, Billerica is
poised to become New England’s life
science industry hub. The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
awarded Billerica a Gold BioReady
Community rating. This award was
given due to the town’s ability to
meet the needs of biotech companies,
such as expedited permitting policies,
by-right zoning, and public infrastructure projects. In addition the town is
already home to life science companies, including: Aushon Biosystems,
BD Biosciences, Belmont Instrument
Corporation, Bruker, EMD Serono, EMD
Millipore, Exogenesis, Lantheus Medical
Imaging, PAREXEL, Pharmalucence,
Seahorse Bioscience, SRS Medical
Systems and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Business Parks
Billerica has numerous business parks
located off the major highways. The
Middlesex Corporate Park, Manning
Park and Suburban Park are located off
the Middlesex Turnpike and minutes
from US Route 3. Major road improve-
ment projects are underway for the
Middlesex Turnpike in order to support
the growth of companies in this area,
including: EMD Serono, EMD
Millipore, American Science &
Engineering, Welch’s, Bruker Optics,
Bruker Bio Spin, Aushon Biosystems,
and Pharmalucence – just to name
a few.
Also off Route 3 are Federal Street
Corporate Park, Technology Park Drive
and Concord Road. These real estate
developments include primarily high
class office and research and development space for companies such as
EMD Millipore, Cabot Corporation,
Nuvera Fuel Cells, Raytheon, L-3
Communications, GE Infrastructure
Sensing, Avaya, Titan Group, PAREXEL
International and Plum Choice.
The Treble Cove Road Economic
Opportunity Area is located right off
Route 3 and consists of a significant
amount of available and relatively low
cost industrial land. Companies in the
life science, high tech, alternative
energy and homeland security indus-
tries are in this area. They include
Curriculum Associates, Lantheus Medical Imaging, BTU International, FLIR,
Seahorse Bioscience, Passport Systems,
and Stellaris Corporation.
The Billerica Business Center and
Riverview Technology Park are within
minutes off Route 495. The Billerica
Business Center contains high end
manufacturing, flex and office space
for companies such as Newport
Corporation and Vislink. The Riverview
Technology Park is 130 acre campus
which can accommodate up to
700,000 square feet of R&D, office
and manufacturing space.
Available Real Estate
Billerica has a wide variety of properties and land available for sale or for
lease. These sites range from smaller
industrial buildings and condominiums
to multiple hundred thousand square
foot buildings. For a more updated listing of available and relatively low cost
commercial and industrial properties
visit the Town’s Commercial Site Finder
at www.town.billerica.ma.us.
Millipore - photo courtesy of
Farley White Interests.
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The Town of Billerica is working to redevelop underutilized parcels along
the Middlesex Turnpike and Treble Cove Road and has identified hundreds
of acres of underutilized commercial and industrial properties. The Town
is pursuing infrastructure and permitting initiatives to help streamline the
development of these sites.
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n addition, Billerica has smaller retail
and commercial properties available
mostly along its main thoroughfare
Boston Road (Route 3A), which generates approximately 80,000 vehicle trips
a day. For more information on sites
and relocating to the Town of Billerica,
contact the Economic Development
Coordinator at (978) 808-5281.
Infrastructure Improvements
Recent infrastructure improvements
have greatly aided business expansion in
Billerica. The largest improvement was
the completion of the Route 3 expansion
project, which turned this highway from
a two-lane to a three-lane road and alle-
Newly Expanded Route 3
viated years of business traffic congestion. This highway improvement project,
which runs from Burlington, MA, to
Nashua, NH, has created great interest
in industrial and retail business expansion throughout the entire corridor. With
three exits on Route 3, Billerica is well
positioned for future business expansion.
The redesign and signalization of the
Concord Road/Route 3 exit has greatly
improved traffic flow to the business
areas of Concord Road, Technology
Park Drive and the Middlesex Turnpike.
Design and land acquisition work is
progressing on the widening and
signalization of the Middlesex Turnpike
through the Middlesex Turnpike
Betterment Project--a collaborative
effort between the towns of Billerica,
Bedford, and Burlington.
A state-of-the-art $35 million water
treatment plant that opened in 2006
is helping service water needs for all
residents and businesses. New sewer
lines installed in the Treble Cove Road
Economic Opportunity Area will
connect businesses in need of
addressing this issue.
Quality of Life
Billerica possesses the classic appeal of a small, family-oriented community, while offering a perfect
blend of schools, housing, employment opportunity and commercial industrial property.
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illerica boasts excellent public
schools (grades 1 – 12), including
Billerica Memorial High School and
Shawsheen Valley Regional Technical
High School. Nearby post-secondary
education includes Middlesex
Community College, University of
Massachusetts Lowell and Northeastern University (Burlington) and Boston
University (Chelmsford). In addition,
Billerica is surrounded by affordable
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and convenient healthcare options with
Lowell General Hospital, Saints
Medical Center (Lowell) and Lahey
Clinic Medical Center (Burlington)
located in neighboring communities.
Settled in the early seventeenth century
and incorporated in 1655, Billerica
has a rich colonial history. Like other
towns in Middlesex County, it was a
hotbed of resistance to British authorities
in the years leading up to the American
Revolutionary War. Billerica is
especially proud of its famous
resident, Thomas Ditson. A young
farmer, Ditson was tarred and feathered
by the British and paraded through the
streets of Boston in March of 1775. It
is this incident that is said to be the
source for the tune ‘Yankee Doodle
Dandy’. A month after surviving
this ordeal, Ditson was among the
members of the Billerica Minute Men
Company who marched to Concord to
fight the British on April 19th, 1775;
the first battle of the Revolutionary
War. The town’s annual Yankee Doodle
Homecoming celebrates this heritage at
a weekend long event each September.
LOCAL MEDIA
For more information on events and activities
happening in the town of Billerica, visit the local news
sources including the Lowell Sun (www.lowellsun.com),
Billerica Minuteman, Billerica Green, WickedLocal.com,
and Billerica.org.
Billerica has been noted
by The Boston Globe
as one of the top five
affordable communities
in Massachusetts.
Billerica’s diverse and relatively young
housing market provides residents with
a broad range of housing options.
Billerica was also recognized as one
of the nation’s top fifty towns for sports
and recreational activities…hailed by
Sports Illustrated as “Sports Town of
the Year” in 2005.
Local Sports Heroes - Billerica boasts
two major league baseball players:
Future “Hall-of-Famer” Tom Glavine,
pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and the
New York Mets, who recently won
his 300th game and Gary DiSarcina,
ten-year veteran short-stop for the
California Angels. In addition, Billerica
is minutes from Lowell’s LeLacheur
Park which is home to the minor league
baseball team Lowell Spinners.
Billerica is a family-friendly town with
a well-developed and active Recreation
Department dedicated to offering its
residents a wide range of programs and
services. Local clubs and organizations
include numerous youth sports groups,
the Boys and Girls Club of Greater
Billerica, Billerica Country Club,
Billerica Rod & Gun Club, Garden
Club, Historical Society, “Prise de Fer”
Fencing Club, Horsemen’s Association, civic groups such as Lions and
Rotary Clubs and many more. A good
collection of local activities and other
resources is listed at www.billerica.org.
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Billerica Business Assistance
Billerica’s Business
Development Team
Economic Development
Coordinator
he Town of Billerica recognizes the
importance of business development to the local economy. Therefore,
Billerica’s business development team
is ready to assist companies interested
in expanding or relocating to town.
Billerica’s Town Manager heads the
business development team. The goal
is to address the needs of Billerica
businesses and assist businesses that
are interested in coming to town.
The Town of Billerica’s Economic
Development Coordinator (EDC) is
available to help businesses grow in
or relocate to the town. The EDC will
assist businesses in obtaining available
resources to help them expand. Initial
information is available on the Town’s
website at www.town.billerica.ma.us.
This information includes a Commercial Site Finder, Business Resources,
Local Contacts, Financial Assistance
and Tax Incentives Information and a
Local Permitting Guide.
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Contact:
John C. Curran, Town Manager
Town of Billerica
365 Boston Rd. #207
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 671-0942
[email protected]
Cathleen O’Dea, Assistant Town
Manager
Town of Billerica
365 Boston Rd. #207
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 671-0942
[email protected]
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Contact:
Stephanie Cronin, Economic
Development Coordinator
Town of Billerica
365 Boston Road, Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 808-5281
[email protected]
Local Permitting
The Town of Billerica is a 43D community, which has enabled the Town
to improve its permitting process. As
a result, the Town has surpassed State
permitting guidelines and typically
approves normal permits within 120
days . The Building Inspector is the first
contact in the permitting process. The
Building Inspector can coordinate a
Department Head Permitting Meeting to help companies streamline the
permitting process. A complete guide
to the Town’s permitting process can be
found on the Town’s website at
www.town.billerica.ma.us.
Contact:
Mark LaLumiere, Building Inspector
Town of Billerica
Ground Floor - Room G07
365 Boston Road, Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 671-0959
[email protected]
Tax Incentives
The Town of Billerica has engaged in
several programs to promote economic
development within the community.
The Massachusetts Economic Development Incentive Program (EDIP) has
been a strong incentive for business
development. This program allows the
Town to offer real estate tax incentives
on additional tax base growth for business investment and local employment.
The State provides a tax credit on corporate income taxes and an abandon
building tax deduction. The EDIP has
been very successful in Billerica and
has been used for numerous high tech
and high growth companies, such as
Bruker Optics, Bruker Bio-Spin, FLIR,
Nuvera Fuel Cells, PAREXEL, and EMD
Serono. The most recent tax incentive
agreement was awarded to Pharmalucence, Inc. Pharmalucence, a life
science company, plans to invest
$40 million to renovate an
abandon building on Dunham
Road into a state-of-the-art
production center resulting in 125
new jobs for the town.
Contact:
Richard Scanlon, Chief Assessor
Town of Billerica
365 Boston Rd., Office 109
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 671-0971
[email protected]
Buy it in Billerica.com is a
website which features every
business in Billerica according
to industry. This website, which
is dedicated to promoting
local businesses, also lists discounts offered by area retail and
entertainment establishments. www.buyitinbillerica.com
Business Networks
Billerica Community Alliance
The Billerica Community Alliance
was formed in 2008 by the merger
of the Billerica Plan and the Billerica
Chamber of Commerce. The Alliance
is an organization of local businesses,
agencies, and community groups and
is the only local business organization
whose focus is solely on Billerica. The
objectives of the organization are to
promote local businesses and economic development as well as to improve
the quality of life within the town.
As a 501-C3 non-profit organization,
the Alliance also funds a number of
charitable
endeavors.
Corporate
members of
the Alliance
include many of the larger corporations
located in Billerica. For many of these
members, membership in the Billerica
Community Alliance helps them to invest in the community as well as offering their employees community service
opportunities. The Alliance membership also includes a significant number
of small businesses as well as civic and
community groups.
Contact:
Pat Zapert, Executive Director
Billerica Community Alliance, Inc.
12 Andover Road, Suite #1
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 667-4174
www.billerica-alliance.org
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University of Massachusetts
Lowell (UML)
University of Massachusetts Lowell is
an active education leader in the town
of Billerica. The University provides
assistance to Billerica businesses in
areas including: Commercial Ventures
& Intellectual Property, Continuing &
Corporate Education, Internship &
Co-Op Opportunities, and Research.
Commercial Ventures &
Intellectual Property (CVIP)
CVIP is responsible for the protection
and commercialization of intellectual property at UML. UML provides
licensing of technologies developed at
the university for future start-ups and
existing companies.
Educational Resources
Located in the densely populated area surrounding Boston and in close
proximity to dozens of top-notch colleges, universities, business schools
and training centers, Billerica has a vast pool of highly educated and
motivated candidates for employment in a multitude of fields. In
addition, area educational institutes and organizations are available for
continuing education and workforce training to help businesses keep
pace with industry’s ever-changing technologies. Below is a list of
educational facilities which are active with Billerica businesses.
Middlesex Community
College (MCC)
Contact
George Kachen, Director
(978) 934-4881
[email protected]
www.uml.edu/cvip
Continuing & Corporate
Education UML offers graduate and
undergraduate courses, degrees and
certificates online and on campus in
areas such as Information Technology,
Engineer Technology, Business Administration, Liberal Arts, Psychology,
Photo courtesy of UMASS Lowell.
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ounded in 1970, Middlesex
Community College has grown to
become one of the largest community
colleges in Massachusetts. With two
distinct campuses which border
Billerica, MCC has a total annual
enrollment of more than 10,000 credit
students and 8,000 noncredit students.
Middlesex Community College’s
Business & Industry Programs provide
customized, cost-effective, corporate
education and training to employers
and organizations with credit or noncredit programs for a wide range of skill
levels. Programs are available onsite
at employer locations, on campus, or
online. In addition, MCC can assist
companies in writing Workforce
Training applications. See Workforce
Training Fund for more information.
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Contact:
Judy Burke, Dean, Corporate and
Community Education & Training
Middlesex Community College
33 Kearney Square
Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 656.3143
[email protected]
www.middlesex.mass.edu/comed_
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Multimedia, and Website Development. UML also offers customized
training solutions to companies
worldwide using a variety of learning
formats. Additionally, the University
of Massachusetts Lowell was recently
awarded a state-funded Center of
Excellence in nanomanufacturing.
Contact:
Catherine Kendrick, Executive Director
(978) 934-2495
[email protected]
www.continuinged.uml.edu
Contact:
Charles Lyons, Superintendent
Shawsheen Valley Technical
High School
(978) 671-3602
[email protected]
www.shawsheen.tec.ma.us
Internship & Co-Op
Opportunities, Office of
Career Services
The mission of Career Services is to
help students successfully transition
from their academic pursuits to their
career goals by promoting and
facilitating career education,
exploration of options and
connections with employers.
Contacts:
Diane Hewitt, Associate Director of
Cooperative Education
(978) 934-2685
[email protected]
Claire Hall, Recruiting
Program Manager
(978) 934-2352
[email protected]
www.uml.edu/student-services/
career_services
Billerica Public School System
Shawsheen Tech offers high school
students valuable real-world experience in their chosen occupational
program. For example, Health
Technology students get clinical
training in area hospitals and
nursing homes, construction
students build houses in local
communities, etc. Seniors in the
Cooperative Education program allows
students to work for pay in the area for
which they have trained, alternatinging weeks of employment in the field
with academic classes. Many Co-op
jobs lead to full time employment after
graduation. Shawsheen Tech has been
named one of the Commonwealth’s
top ten schools for its ability to provide
technology to students.
Billerica Public Schools are an important and positive attraction to residents
and to the business community. The
schools are committed to excellence
for almost 6,300 students. The system
consists of one high school, two middle
schools, and six elementary schools.
Contact:
Dr. Anthony Serio, Superintendent
Billerica Public Schools
(978) 528-7900
[email protected]
www.administration.billerica.k12.ma.us
Research
UML is a nationally ranked research
university with more than $50 million
in funded research being conducted
each year. Research happens on many
levels of the campus – in academic
departments, through 37 interdisciplinary centers and institutes, by graduate
and undergraduate students and with
corporate sponsorship.
Contact:
Julie Chen, Vice Provost of Research
(978) 934-2226
[email protected]
www.uml.edu/research
Shawsheen Valley Regional
Technical School
The Shawsheen Valley Regional
Technical School offers a high school
experience that optimizes student
aptitude, achievement and skills by
integrating vocational-technical and
academic curricula in order to prepare
students to begin adult life and careers
immediately and independently.
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Through the One-Stop Career
Center of Lowell, companies have
access to a number of high-quality
employer services and to thousands
of job seekers. Employer services
available through the
Employment Resources
Massachusetts Workforce
Training Fund
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he Workforce Training Fund is a
state fund financed entirely by
Massachusetts employers, and enacted
into law in July 1998. Its purpose is
to provide resources to Massachusetts
businesses and workers to train current
and newly hired employees. There
are two categories of grants: training
and technical assistance. Training
grants range from $2,000 to $250,000.
Technical assistance grants range from
$5,000 to $25,000. Grants must be
matched dollar for dollar. Matches can
be cash or in-kind and include only
those current or newly incurred costs
that are directly related to undertaking
the proposed training.
Contact:
The Massachusetts Workforce
Training Fund
Division of Career Services
19 Staniford Street
Boston, MA 02114
[email protected]
(800) 252-1591
www.mass.gov
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GLWIB
GREATER LOWELL
Workforce Investment Board
Greater Lowell Workforce
Investment Board and
Career Center
The Greater Lowell Workforce Investment Board can assist with various
workforce expansion and retention
strategies, including accessing grants
aimed at upgrading the skills of current
workers, in order to retain talent and
become more strategically positioned
in the competitive marketplace.
Contact:
Barbara O’Neil, Director
Greater Lowell Workforce
Investment Board
107 Merrimack St.
Lowell, MA 01852
978- 937-9816
[email protected]
www.glwib.org
Career Center of Lowell include:
• Listing job openings
• Pre-screening applicants
• Employer on-site recruitments
• Labor market information
• Creative staffing solutions,
including: The Massachusetts Work Sharing Program
• Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund
• Hiring Incentive Training Grant (HITG)
Contact:
Bruce Akashian, Assistant Director
Career Center of Lowell
18 John Street
Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 805-4733
[email protected]
www.cclowell.org
The Career Place
Administered by Middlesex Community College, the Career Place in
Woburn, MA, provides comprehensive
career services to area residents, and
employment and training resources
to local employers. The Career Place
offers career counseling, employment
workshops, and access to job-related
research and position listings. Workforce development services for employers include job-posting, professional
development and training, recruitment
services, job fairs and more.
www.careerplacejobs.com
Massachusetts Resources
Below is a listing of state resources that may help your business grow in the town of Billerica.
Massachusetts Small Business
Development Center
T
he Massachusetts Small Business
Development Center (MSBDC)
provides free, confidential, one-toone management advice, technical
assistance and low-cost educational
training programs to prospective and
existing small businesses throughout the
Commonwealth. The MSBDC provides
specialized services in the areas of
capital formation, minority business
assistance, business and industry data,
international trade and procurement
technical assistance.
Contact:
Awilda Irizarry, Business Advisor
MA Small Business Development
Center (SBDC) - Northeast Region
Salem State College
(978) 542-6343
[email protected]
www.salemstate.edu/sbdc
Massachusetts Office of Business
Development
MassDevelopment
MassDevelopment provides financial
and real estate assistance to businesses
throughout Massachusetts in order to
assist with blighted areas, help create
jobs, and address overarching issues
that impact economic development.
Through bond financing, loans &
guarantees, tax credit financing and
specialty programs, MassDevelopment
provides real estate and equipment
financing with higher advance rates and
low interest rates to help for-profit and
nonprofit organizations grow their busi-
nesses. With extensive experience and a
wide range of financing tools, including
development funds, tax-exempt bonds,
loans, and guarantees, MassDevelopment can provide financing at any stage
of the project – from predevelopment to
permanent financing.
Contact:
Ken Goode, Vice President
MassDevelopment, North Regional
Office • (978) 459-6100 ext. 101
[email protected]
www.massdevelopment.com
The Massachusetts Office of Business
Development (MOBD) is committed
to assisting companies who want to
locate, expand, or maintain a presence
in Massachusetts. Through nine offices
and five industry specialists, MOBD
works with companies and municipalities to help them take advantage of
available economic incentive programs.
MOBD also assists companies in
navigating and accessing the technical,
human, financial, training, educational
and site-finding resources necessary to
expand or locate in
Massachusetts.
Contact:
Peter Milano, Senior Regional Director
Massachusetts Office of Business
Development
(978) 970-1193
[email protected]
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Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
(MLSC) is a quasi-public agency of
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
which was established to promote the
life sciences within
the Commonwealth. It
is tasked with investing in life sciences
research and economic
development. This work includes making financial investments in public and
private institutions, growing life sciences
research, development and commercialization as well as building ties
between sectors of the Massachusetts
life sciences community. The MLSC
has several key financial programs that
are designed to create jobs and support
scientific research.
Massachusetts Growth Capital
Corporation
financial guidance - including one-onone mentoring services.
he Massachusetts Growth Capital
Corporation (MGCC) was created
to provide access to capital and advice
to small businesses. The Massachusetts Growth Capital Corporation was
formed to serve as a one stop resource
for small businesses seeking capital
and advice. The MGCC offers working
capital, loan guarantees, grants, and
Contact:
Bob Germino, Loan Officer
The Schrafft Center, 529 Main Street,
Suite 1M8, Boston, MA 02129
(617) 727-8158 ext. 6956
[email protected]
www.commcorp.org/trust
Contact:
Susan R. Windham-Bannister, Ph.D.
President and CEO of MLSC
1000 Winter Street, Suite 2900
Waltham, MA 02451
(781) 373-7777 or [email protected]
www.masslifesciences.com
Enterprise Bank & Trust Company
223 Boston Road
North Billerica, MA 01862
(978) 262-0100
www.ebtc.com
Sovereign Bank
508 Boston Road
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 670-9253
www.sovereignank.com
Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank
700 Boston Road
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 663-4411
www.lowellfive.com
Stoneham Bank
493 Boston Road
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 667-2197
www.stonehambank.com
Northern Bank &Trust
482 Boston Road
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 667-4107
www.nbtc.com
TD Bank
449 Boston Road
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 667-4106
www.tdbanknorth.com
T
Billerica Banks
The Town of Billerica works with the
area banks to assist local companies in
obtaining the necessary financing.
Bank of America
464 Boston Road
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 670-6424
(800) 841-4000
www.bankofamerica.com
Enterprise Bank & Trust Company
674 Boston Road
Billerica, MA 01821
(978) 262-0123
www.ebtc.com
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