About ARC | ARC, Inc.

55+

assets

1M+

square
feet

90

years of
experience

The Aubuchon Realty Company, Inc. (ARC) was founded in 1932, and has entered the 4th generation of Management and Board oversight. ARC endeavors to be a community leader in commercial real estate investing.

We strive to utilize our local expertise and institutional knowledge to generate attractive returns for our shareholders, while positively impacting the communities where we invest.

Mission & Vision

Mission Statement

We endeavor to be a community leader in commercial real estate investing.

We strive to utilize our local expertise to generate attractive returns for our shareholders, while positively impacting the communities where we invest.

Acquisition Strategy

We focus on two principal acquisition programs: 1. Opportunistic real estate acquisitions where we recapitalize a property, improve asset management and ultimately reposition within the marketplace, and 2. Invest in well-located, net lease commercial real estate with higher leverage and longer investment horizons to unlock long term appreciation through mortgage pay down, equity appreciation and focused asset management.

Development Strategy

We provide a focused build-to-suit development program for growing retailers in the Northeast and beyond. This strategy includes unique, hyper-local market knowledge and research, coupled with burgeoning relationships with communities, brokers, and design teams.

Investors

ARC is a private, family-owned real estate investment company with shareholders ranging from 2nd to 5th generation descendants of its founders. As with many private and public companies, all investment and operational decisions are made with the best interests of its shareholders as the primary focus.

History

1932

On December 20, 1932, William E. Aubuchon, Sr. formed his first Corporation to consolidate his expanded real estate holdings. After growing his operating hardware stores to six locations, coupled with several residential investment properties, he anticipated a need for distributing his own hardware goods. “Warehouse B” pictured here in Fitchburg, MA was one of the first pieces of commercial real estate owned by the Aubuchon Realty Company, Inc.

1940-1970

Over three decades the Aubuchon Realty Company’s portfolio begins to form, with nearly two dozen acquisitions during this time period, totaling approximately 150,000 Sq. Ft in five states throughout New England. In addition to hardware tenancy, 50,000 square feet of the portfolio included rental apartments set above commercial space in traditional “mixed-use” investment property.

1980s

Moving beyond hardware occupancy, a new era of real estate development was underway for the Company. The 1976 purchase of land in Fitchburg, MA leads to the first of three phases of commercial real estate development, known as Parkhill Plaza. Pictured above in its initial phase, the buildings are expanded over the decade, eventually resulting in a total of 45,000 square feet.

1990s

With the largest development project to date complete, the Company continues its real estate acquisitions and redevelopment projects. This period brings eight other New England and upstate NY investments, increasing the portfolio by 150,000 square feet with the accumulation of a growing hardware anchor, along with local banks, service-based retailers, and local convenience uses like exercise, laundromats, and banks. Aubuchon Realty Company, Inc. expands into property and lease management for its growing rent roll.

2000s

During this period the retailing requirements for Aubuchon Hardware accelerated, with a variety of ground up developments culminating in a new 100,000 Sq. Ft. added to the portfolio in prime New England / hardware addresses. The Company also undergoes its first branding refresh in many decades, adopting the New England states as its logo, with the tagline “Commercial Real Estate Development – Since 1932”

2015

As Management and its Board of Directors expand to the 4th generation, the Company invests and develops in a variety of non-hardware properties in the Metro Boston and NH region, pivoting strategy to a more focused acquisitions program.

2020 & BEYOND

The Aubuchon Realty Company, Inc. is formally rebranded to ARC, celebrating its 90 years of investing in Commercial Real Estate, and recognizing success in its new acquisition and development strategies focusing on growing retailers in the Northeast, and beyond.