Who owns the Edison Electric building on Willow?

[kgradow1.livejournal.com]

It's the giant brick building next to the Cedar Street Bike Path on Willow. It's shuttered and presumably unused, but I can't find any record of current property ownership online.

Presumably NSTAR? Is Edison Electric still around? Would love help tracking down details.

Comments

[ceo]

I think it's RCN's (or maybe Comcast's) local POP.

[smammy]

RCN's.

it's not unused

[wardv.livejournal.com]

This building is very much used. It's the local point-of-presence for RCN. There are often Verizon trucks there too, so they must have equipment there as well.

NSTAR has stuff there too; given the number of transformers next to the building I wouldn't be surprised if it's the local power substation.

The signs on the fence still say 'Boston Edison', which makes me think the property is owned by NSTAR.

Re: it's not unused

[ron_newman]

I wonder why Verizon would be there, since they have their own facility on Central Street at Willoughby.

[no1onthecorner.livejournal.com]

Boston Edison is still listed as the owner of record in the city assessor's online database, which should be pretty up to date, so NStar sounds right.

[ron_newman]

An earlier discussion of the same building.

And an even earlier one.

[c011een.livejournal.com]

NSTAR owns the property and uses the substation in the back. They rent the large brick building to RCN. I walk by this site almost every day and daydream about turning it into a park. It's so ugly.

[ron_newman]

There's got to be some way to landscape this property and still maintain the necessary truck access to the NStar and RCN facilities.