A Massachusetts-based cannabis retailer and grower recently paid $2.5 million for a nearly half-acre property hosting a 3,126-square-foot retail building just off Interstate 91 in Hartford.
A limited liability company affiliated with cannabis company Insa bought 167 Brainard Road – formerly home to Restoration Lighting Gallery – in a deal recorded by the city on May 26.
Hartford’s Planning and Zoning Commission, last November, signed off on a plan by Insa to build a cannabis retail and growing campus on the former Restoration Lighting property and the adjacent 5.2-acre property that until recently hosted the Chowder Pot restaurant. No sale of the Chowder Pot site – 165 Brainard Road – has yet been logged into Hartford’s land records.
The plans Insa submitted to the city for its special permit called for renovation of the concrete-block Restoration Lighting building into a 7,600-square-foot “state-of-the-art” retail and educational space for adult use and medical cannabis sales.
Insa’s plans also call for the renovation and expansion of the former Chowder Pot site into an 83,441-square-foot cannabis growing and production facility.
Insa describes itself as a “vertically integrated medical and adult-use cannabis company operating in multiple states.” The company had cultivation centers in Massachusetts, Florida and Pennsylvania. It currently operates dispensaries and/or retail shops in Massachusetts, Florida and Ohio.
