BURLINGTON, MA-Green Mountain Coffee Roastershas leased 424,000 square feet in a build-to-suit atGutierrez Co.’s Burlington Research Center here.The deal, in which GMCR was represented by Cushman &Wakefield, will relocate the coffee maker’sKeurig single-cup unit from three locations in theBoston area. It’s among the largest recent leases within theGreater Boston region and is believed to be the largest suburbanBTS suit on record, according to C&W.

Keurig’s new campus will be located in the area of 63 South Avein Burlington. The relocation from GMCR’s three existingMassachusetts facilities in Reading, Wakefield and Woburn isanticipated to take place in phases over the next several yearsstarting in 2013. GMCR currently employs 519 in the Bay State.

“Based on the continued growth of our business and the strategicopportunities we see to pursue innovations in categories adjacentto our current single-serve products, it was essential to find alocation that could support our current and anticipated growth,”Keurig president Michelle Stacy says in a release. She says the newcampus will allow for consolidation and “even greater collaborationamong our functional teams” while giving the Keurig unit theability “to greatly enlarge and improve space dedicated to researchand development.”