A Celtic's pride

By Carol Beggy  |  August 6, 2006

Boston Celtics forward Wally Szczerbiak, and his wife, Shannon, bought a newly constructed 8,242-square-foot, 12-room house on Hathaway Road in Lexington from developer Frederick C. Cialdea for $2.5 million. Szczerbiak joined the team this past season through a trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves. The house, which sits on about three-quarters of an acre, has five bedrooms, nine baths , and three fireplaces.

The American Textile History Museum sold a portion of its building on Dutton Street in Lowell to developer Loft Property LLC for $3.1 million. The museum, which announced last year it was selling off some of its Lowell real estate and launching a fund-raising campaign, will retain the 80,000-square-feet it now uses, said Jim Coleman, the museum's director. The developer has plans to turn the space adjacent to the museum into 45 loft condos, a newsroom for the Lowell Sun, and a small restaurant. In the western part of the state, the Springfield Museums bought a former office building from Verizon New England at 85 Chestnut St. for $895,000 to add an adjacent museum to the four others in the downtown area. The building, just shy of 29,000 square feet, will be transformed into the Springfield Information and Technology Museum. It will join the organization's Museum of Fine Arts, the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, the Springfield Science Museum, and the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, a mini Smithsonian-style downtown campus.

United Liquors owner A. Raymond Tye sold a 1,910-square-foot condo on Cambridge Parkway in Cambridge to Tokiko Kishi and Yoshito Kishi, Cambridge, for $1,668,586, according to county records. As a philanthropist, Tye has supported many human-service causes and founded the Ray Tye Medical Aid Foundation in 2002.

Carol Beggy can be reached at cbeggy@globe.com.