Office, medical and flex space for lease on Route 20
526 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA: a 40,000 square foot commercial building on the Wayland and Sudbury line.
Suites from about 1,000 to 25,000 square feet, furnished or built to suit, with 180 parking spaces, an elevator, full sprinklers, a backup generator and rooftop solar. Twenty minutes from Route 128 and the Mass Pike, on Route 20 between Routes 27 and 126.
The building
A two-story, multi-tenant office building that has housed professional offices, medical practices, consultants, a fitness studio and a dance school, owned and managed locally by HDR Holdings LLC.
526 Boston Post Road sits on Route 20 where Wayland meets Sudbury, on a 3.3-acre site with about 500 feet of road frontage. The building is four offset two-story blocks joined by two common entrances and corridors, which gives almost every suite a window line and lets the floors divide into anything from a single office to a whole floor.
Space is offered three ways: conventional suites on multi-year leases, furnished suites ready to occupy, and private offices, dedicated desks and day offices by the month through the Innovation Place flexible-workspace program. Medical build-outs with exam rooms, a records room and a waiting area have been done here before, and the plans for them are on file.
The zoning is Limited Commercial in Wayland and Limited Industrial in Sudbury, which allows office, medical, research, light industrial and most business uses. Current tenants include a health practice, a CrossFit gym and a ballet school.
Space available
From one office to a whole floor
The building is divided into eight suites, four on each floor, around two common lobbies. Suites combine, so a tenant can take a single suite or a contiguous block. Availability changes; the leasing agent has the current list.
| Option | Size | What it is | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office suite | 1,000 to 10,000 sq ft | Conventional office space, open or divided, window line on at least one side. Delivered as is or renovated to a tenant's plan. | Multi-year lease |
| Contiguous block | Up to 25,000 sq ft | Several adjoining suites or a full floor for a headquarters, clinic, school or lab-office user. | Multi-year lease |
| Furnished suite | 2,000 to 5,000 sq ft | Workstations, offices, a conference room and kitchenette already in place. Shown on the 2024 test fit below. | Short or long term |
| Medical build-to-suit | 2,000 sq ft and up | Exam rooms, consultation room, reception and records on a layout already drawn for this building. | Multi-year lease |
| Private office or desk | 1 to 6 people | Innovation Place: private offices, dedicated desks and day offices with shared meeting rooms, reception and kitchen. | By the month or year |
| Meeting rooms | 4 to 16 seats | Interview rooms, a training room and a boardroom. | By the hour or day |
Square footages are approximate rentable areas. Rents, operating expense terms and current availability come from the leasing agent; ask for a proposal on the suite that fits.
Building specifications
Built for offices and labs, with the systems to prove it
- Construction
- Steel frame, concrete slab on grade, decorative masonry block exteriorTwo stories, four offset interconnected blocks, two common entrances
- Year built
- 1985Wayland assessor records show 1987; the master deed is dated December 31, 1985
- Size
- About 40,000 sq ft rentableGross building area 40,752 sq ft
- Ceilings
- 12-foot ceiling heights
- Windows
- Double-pane insulated aluminum casement windows, bronze tinted
- Elevator
- One passenger elevator
- Fire and security
- Wet sprinkler system throughout; key-card entry
- Entrances
- Two grade-level common entrances with lobbies; elevator to the second floor
- Electrical
- 480 V three-phase serviceNine meters, so suites are separately metered
- Backup power
- 300 kW diesel generator; UPS systems in the data rooms
- Data rooms
- Two independently cooled data rooms, one with a raised floor
- Cooling
- 151 tons from 17 rooftop unitsEight 12-ton, four 5-ton, two 6-ton, two 10-ton and one 3-ton
- Heat
- Natural gas, separately metered by suite
- Solar
- Rooftop photovoltaic array with a 60 kW inverter
- Water and sewer
- Municipal water; on-site septic system
- Telecom
- Carrier service to each suite; wifi in the shared Innovation Place areas
Photos
Outside and in
The Ai3 drawings are the September 2012 addendum set and show the suites as they were then partitioned; several have been reconfigured since. Plans are for orientation only. Room-by-room dimensions and the full A1.1 and A1.2 sheets are available on request.
Location and access
Route 20 at the Wayland and Sudbury line
The building fronts directly on Boston Post Road (Route 20) and is entered from Minuteman Drive. Route 27 crosses Route 20 a mile west in Sudbury and Route 126 meets it in Wayland center a few miles east; Route 128 and the Mass Pike are about twenty minutes away, Route 495 about the same. Longfellow Tennis and Health Club adjoins the property; restaurants, banks and services line this stretch of Route 20.
Drive times, off peak
| Destination | Minutes |
|---|---|
| Sudbury center | 5 |
| Wayland center | 5 |
| Framingham, Route 9 and the Mass Pike | 15 |
| Natick, Route 9 | 15 |
| Marlborough, Route 495 | 20 |
| Waltham, Route 128 | 20 to 25 |
| Concord, Route 2 | 20 |
| Cambridge and Boston | 35 to 45 |
| Logan Airport | 40 to 55 |
The area
Wayland and Sudbury are residential towns of about 14,000 and 19,000 people between Route 128 and Route 495, with some of the highest household incomes and school rankings in Massachusetts. The Route 20 corridor is their commercial spine: Wayland Town Center with Whole Foods and restaurants is three miles east, and Sudbury's Boston Post Road shops and medical offices run west from the town line.
Employers within a short drive include MathWorks and Cognex in Natick, Boston Scientific and Hologic in Marlborough, TJX, Bose and Sanofi in Framingham, and the Route 128 companies in Waltham. The MBTA commuter rail stops at West Natick and Lincoln, each about fifteen minutes away.
Tenants here draw staff from the MetroWest towns without the Route 128 commute, and clients from a trade area that runs from Marlborough to Weston.
History and ownership
Locally owned, in the same hands for two decades
HDR Holdings LLC, a Wayland-based holding company, owns and manages 526 Boston Post Road directly. The building was completed in 1985 and organized as nine commercial condominium units under a master deed recorded that December; HDR Holdings holds all of them. The owner's own operating business occupied the building until it was sold in 2010, and the building has been leased to outside tenants since.
The site going forward
In 2024 Wayland Town Meeting placed the Wayland portion of the parcel in its Route 20 West multifamily overlay district under the MBTA Communities Act. The owner is studying a residential redevelopment of the site under that overlay. Nothing has been filed, no timetable is set, and the building continues to operate and lease as it does today. Leases are written with that study in mind, and the owner will discuss term and renewal options openly with any prospective tenant.
Questions about the redevelopment study go to the owner, not the leasing agent.
Contact
See the space
Showings by appointment. Brokers welcome.
- Current availability, rents and proposals
- Tours of suites and the flexible-workspace offices
- Whole-building, long-term and build-to-suit discussions
- Purchase inquiries and the redevelopment study
- 526 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA 01778