The Salem Gazette reported that construction has begun on the new (Salem) South Essex Registry of Deeds. After more than a century at 36 Federal Street, the Registry of Deeds will be moving for approximately five years to the Shetland Park complex at 27 Congress Street, home of the old Sears building.
The Registry is moving to make way for the city’s new courthouse complex, the J. Michael Ruane Judicial Center, in the Federal Street area. Tentative plans for a future home are to swap places with the current Salem District Court building, which will be vacated when the courthouse project is finished, in 2011 according to the Salem Gazette article.
The Shetland Park Registry promise to offer ample parking, including an adjacent parking garage with more than 100 free spaces, a shuttle bus which will operate every 30 minutes on weekdays from downtown, and climate control, which should help preserve some of the oldest deeds in the country – dating as far back as 1639.
The Registry is moving to make way for the city’s new courthouse complex, the J. Michael Ruane Judicial Center, in the Federal Street area. Tentative plans for a future home are to swap places with the current Salem District Court building, which will be vacated when the courthouse project is finished, in 2011 according to the Salem Gazette article.
The Shetland Park Registry promise to offer ample parking, including an adjacent parking garage with more than 100 free spaces, a shuttle bus which will operate every 30 minutes on weekdays from downtown, and climate control, which should help preserve some of the oldest deeds in the country – dating as far back as 1639.