The city of Hartford reaped more than $4.6 million from its sale of land parcels totaling about 5 acres to a Springfield convenience-store operator planning a 16-pump-island “travel center” off I-91 and Jennings and Leibert roads, in the North Meadows, the city says.
The city of Hartford reaped more than $4.6 million from its sale of land parcels totaling about 5 acres to a Springfield convenience-store operator planning a 16-pump-island “travel center'' off I-91 and Jennings and Leibert roads, in the North Meadows, the city says.
As reported last week, 11 of the Leibert Road lots totaling just over 4 acres that the city's quasi-public Hartford Redevelopment Corp. arm sold in recent months to Pride Convenience Inc. were traded for $392,858 apiece, or $4.3 million, said city Department of Development Services spokeswoman Elisa Hobbs. Three more Leibert Roads lots, totaling about three-quarters of an acre, sold for $107,142 each, or $321,426.
Five abutting Leibert Road parcels totaling about an acre were sold by private owners for unspecified prices, Hobbs said.
Pride plans to begin construction this fall on its Hartford travel center, which also will feature Subway sandwich and Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers counters inside.
It, too, will have public showers and other amenities to refresh road-weary truckers who Connecticut authorities say lack a suitable number of rest stops in this state.
— Gregory Seay
