As it prepares to relocate to West Hartford, the Bess and Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford has sold its longtime Bloomfield campus to a Brooklyn investor for $2.3 million.
According to land records, 555 Equities LLC, headed by Gershon Eichorn, bought the 36,100-square-foot, three-story building at 51 Gabb Road in late June.
It wasn’t immediately clear what changes might be in store for the nearly nine-acre property. A request for comment to Eichorn’s firm Up Realty was not returned, but Eichorn is an apartment investor with holdings in New York, Connecticut and other states.
Up Realty sold a five-building portfolio in Queens earlier this year for $25 million, according to Real Estate Weekly.
In central Connecticut, entities controlled by Eichorn own five properties containing more than 200 apartments, according to CoStar.
That includes 60 units at 1380-1390 East St. in New Britain, 32 units at 12-16 Groton St. in Hartford and the 73-unit Vernon Pines complex in Vernon.
The Gabb Road property has been home to Hebrew Academy since it relocated there from Hartford in 1974. Formed in 1940, Hebrew Academy billed itself as the oldest Jewish day school in the United States.
In 2019, it merged with Hebrew High School of New England in West Hartford, forming a single preschool to grade 12 entity called New England Jewish Academy.
The two schools have each operated out of their respective locations since then, but Hebrew Academy will move in with Hebrew High School at its 300 Bloomfield Ave. campus in West Hartford for the start of the 2021-2022 school year, according to the New England Jewish Academy’s website.
