By Dakota Antelman — [email protected]
Minute Man Arc will soon leave its 1269 Main Street office and move early intervention programming to Acton.
Minute Man Arc’s programs serve children and adults with disabilities. While early intervention decamps to Acton, residential program directors who also work at the Main Street site — known as the Carter Center — will move their offices to the Mill and Main complex in Maynard.
The non-profit will continue running other services at its headquarters on Forest Ridge Road.
Director of development Rebecca Lynch said Minute Man will move out of the Carter Center “this spring.” In an email to The Concord Bridge, she said the exact timetable depends on renovations.
She said crews started work during the week of March 10, “so it’ll be a process.”
In a statement, CEO Jean Goldsberry said the Acton property, at 289 Great Road, will provide “expanded programming space and much more generous parking.”
Minute Man moved into the Carter Center in the 1990s and used the building as its corporate headquarters until 2015.
Program enrollment boomed after the Covid pandemic, and Goldsberry said early intervention outgrew the Carter Center.
Minute Man sold the site to a Washington-based LLC in August 2024 for $4 million, according to documents filed with the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds, but continued occupying the space.
“Selling the building was difficult,” Goldsberry said, “but we wanted to make sure our staff has the space they need to do what they do best: support families and change lives.”
