A high-profile real estate investor has sold a Waterbury property that houses the Community Health Center of Waterbury for $2.9 million.
Hamden-based Belfonti Cos. LLC sold the property at 51 North Elm St. to Community Health Center of Waterbury’s parent company, Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. The deal closed on July 31.
“Community Health Center of Waterbury has been leasing the building and serving the residents of Waterbury since 2011, but our new ownership under our parent company Moses/Weitzman Health System provides added stability and permanency to our work in the City of Waterbury,” said Mark Masselli, president and CEO of Community Health Center Inc.
Masselli, who began working out of a small office in Middletown with a single dental chair, created Community Health Center along with a group of activists and college students. The healthcare organization now has more than a dozen locations in Connecticut.
Community Health Center, founded in 1972, says it has a special commitment to the uninsured, underinsured and key populations, such as patients with HIV/AIDS.
Masselli’s story is the subject of the book “Peace & Health” by Charles Barber, a writer in residence at Wesleyan University, lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University and director of The Connection Institute, a criminal justice research institute.
“Mark’s story is remarkable and inspiring…” said Michael Belfonti, president and CEO of Belfonti Cos. “It just goes to show that a better world can be created when like-minded people join forces.”
