Pop quiz: Not including mail boxes, how many buildings does the United States Postal Service own in Newburyport?
Everyone knows the US Post Office downtown at 61 Pleasant Street, diagonally across from City Hall.
Few people realize there is another USPS building on the other side of Newburyport, within the Lord Timothy Dexter Industrial Park, located at 12 Malcolm Hoyt Drive and marked on the assessor’s map as 82A-14.
Once owned by the Newburyport Area Industrial Development Corporation, the USPS bought the 232,610 square-foot lot in May 1992 for the tune of $306,000. Two years later, they built a 29,376 square-foot structure that has a fiscal 2008 assessed value of $3.9 million. You do the math.
Try googling for the address; no results found.
Beats me what goes on inside, though I presume a mail sorting distribution center. The USPS isn’t a member of the Newburyport Chamber, and there isn’t a formal industrual park association. I wonder if they give free tours.
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