WOBURN — Middlesex Superior Court, currently located in the Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in Cambridge, will move to a new facility in Woburn in the TradeCenter on Sylvan Road beginning Friday, according to Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan.
The court will be open for business at this new site on March 17.
The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, formerly housed at the Sullivan courthouse, will be moving its central office to 15 Commonwealth Ave. in Woburn from the Cambridge courthouse, as well, but on March 28.
More than 150 employees of the district attorney’s office will be moving to the Woburn location, including a majority of the office’s superior court trial teams, victim witness advocates, support staff, and others. The Cambridge District Court staff will remain in Cambridge at 47 Thorndike St., across the street from the current courthouse.
Approximately 180 Middlesex court personnel will occupy the TradeCenter, a newly-built 140,000 square-foot, seven-story building, which the Trial Court has leased for five years.
The facility provides 15 courtrooms with sound amplification and some with digital audio-recording capabilities, 15 jury deliberation rooms, and 22 holding cells with separate areas for men and women.The building also provides modern security and HVAC systems, record storage space, and ample parking.
The final phase of the move will relocate the Middlesex Law Library to the Woburn facility by this spring. The courthouse also includes office space for staff of the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office and the Committee for Public Counsel Services, as well as space designated for victims/witnesses and bar advocates.
Relocation of the Cambridge District Court from the Sullivan courthouse will occur through an RFP process now under way at the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management.
The new mailing address for the Middlesex Superior Court is 200 TradeCenter, Woburn, MA. 01801. The main telephone number is (781) 939-2700. The administrative fax number for the Clerk-Magistrate’s office is (781) 939-0872, and the fax number for the Probation Department is (781) 939-0951. The MBTA has added a stop to Bus Route 134 on Sylvan Road at the front building of the three-building TradeCenter complex.
The following is updated contact information for the DA’s new central office beginning on March 28:
* Main Telephone Number: (781) 897-8300/(877) 897-8333, which is toll free in Massachusetts. Their main fax number will be (781) 897-8301. The mailing address is 15 Commonwealth Ave., Woburn, MA. 01801. The Web site is www.middlesexda.com.
