Worcester Business Journal
February 2026
The Center for Applied Behavioral Instruction, a Worcester-based nonprofit helping children with autism, is expanding its Creating Opportunities to Reach Excellence program through the purchase of a larger site in Auburn.
The site located at 16 Albert St. was purchased for $3 million on Friday by CABI from German manufacturer Physik Instrumente, according to Worcester District Registry of Deeds records. PI shifted its operations to a consolidated U.S. headquarters in Shrewsbury in November.
The new site is a 17,890-square-foot, single-story office building constructed in 2002, according to Town of Auburn property records. It’s about double the size of CABI’s current 9,372-square-foot CORE site at 1 Westec Drive in Auburn.
CORE provides public and private insurance-based services for toddlers to adults.
“With this enlargement, our capacity is opened up to support more kids,” CABI Executive Director Brian Doyle said. “Our goal is to grow this and create more opportunities for kids that are waiting.”
CABI started running out of space at its 1 Westec Drive location after about a year, necessitating the search for a bigger space, which will also be the site of CABI executive offices, Doyle said.
Doyle is eyeing more growth for CABI in the future.
“We hope to continue to develop our clinic into a full-service clinic for Central Massachusetts for kids with disabilities, which would include speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy and the ADA therapy that we do,” he said.
In addition to its Auburn presence, CABI runs a Worcester school for high school-aged students with autism at 80 Williams St., with its main campus at 345 Greenwood St. in Worcester.
Will Kelleher and Drew Higgins of Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates in Worcester represented CABI, while Kevin Hanna and Kevin Brawley of Toronto-headquartered Colliers represented PI.
Rockland Trust assisted CABI with financing the purchase. Worcester-based law firm Fletcher Tilton assisted with the legal aspects of the move, Doyle said.
The 3.4-acre site at 16 Albert St. received a 2026 tax assessment value of $1.91 million, according to municipal property records.
CABI started running out of space at its 1 Westec Drive location after about a year, necessitating the search for a bigger space, which will also be the site of CABI executive offices, Doyle said.
Doyle is eyeing more growth for CABI in the future.
“We hope to continue to develop our clinic into a full-service clinic for Central Massachusetts for kids with disabilities, which would include speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy and the ADA therapy that we do,” he said.
In addition to its Auburn presence, CABI runs a Worcester school for high school-aged students with autism at 80 Williams St., with its main campus at 345 Greenwood St. in Worcester.
Will Kelleher and Drew Higgins of Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates in Worcester represented CABI, while Kevin Hanna and Kevin Brawley of Toronto-headquartered Colliers represented PI.
Rockland Trust assisted CABI with financing the purchase. Worcester-based law firm Fletcher Tilton assisted with the legal aspects of the move, Doyle said.
The 3.4-acre site at 16 Albert St. received a 2026 tax assessment value of $1.91 million, according to municipal property records.
By Eric Casey
