The Hartford Parking Authority, in the market for a new home since selling the Morgan Street garage to the state, is close to landing new quarters at 11 Asylum St., in the heart of downtown.
The Hartford Parking Authority, in the market for a new home since selling the Morgan Street garage to the state, is close to landing new quarters at 11 Asylum St., in the heart of downtown.
New York landlord Yisroel Rabinowitz, 11 Asylum's owner, says the city's public-parking arm got the last of its necessary administrative approvals to vacate its 6,100-square-foot, ground-floor offices the past 14 years at 155 Morgan St., into 7,000 square feet on the second floor of 11 Asylum. About 21 people, including parking vendors' staff, occupy Morgan Street.
However, a definitive lease agreement between the parties is pending, parking agency CEO Eric Boone said, declining further comment until it is signed soon.
The state agreed in 2013 to pay $23 million for the garage for the use of state workers about to occupy the former Connecticut River Plaza office building downtown.
Meantime, Rabinowitz said bid invitations are circulating among prospective designers/remodelers for HPA's 11 Asylum space. It is anticipated the space could be completed and the agency moved in before yearend.
A condition of HPA's lease is that the landlord install a separate elevator for HPA's use, said Rabinowitz, owner of the nearby The Grand apartments downtown.
Also several tenants who are or had been on the second floor — including a law firm and a tiny substation office for the Hartford police department — have moved to other space inside 11 Asylum.
— Gregory Seay
