Farmington’s Centennial Inn sells for $7.5M

The Centennial Inn Apartments has a new owner who paid $7.5 million for the one-time extended-stay hotel on Route 6/Spring Lane in Farmington. Originally built in 1987 by West Hartford developer Simon Konover, half of Centennial's 112 units were converted in 2010 into apartments. The other half remain extended-stay suites, but new owner Mystic Properties Management eventually plans to convert those into apartments, too, according to broker Rick Chozick, of Hartford's Chozick Realty, who represented seller Centennial Inns Inc. The proximity of major employers, among them Trumpf Inc., the UConn Health Center, Jackson Laboratory, plus the newly relocated Farmington corporate headquarters for United Technologies Corp. to be closer to its operating units Otis Elevator and Carrier, makes apartments and other multi- and single-family housing more attractive, Chozick said. Centennial's on-site amenities include a swimming pool with sun deck, basketball court and walking trails. Media Links’ relo Media Links Inc. has leased 10,400 square feet in Windsor's Kennedy Business Park to relocate its network infrastructure-solution development and manufacturing operations from Bloomfield. Media Links has been housed at 431 Hayden Station Road since August; it was previously located at 1294 Blue Hills Ave. Sentry Commercial represented Media Links. Windsor Management Co. represented landlord Kennedy Parks LLC in the lease. Newington med-office full Pediatric Communications Center has leased the last 650 square feet of medical-office space in the Newington Professional Center, filling the downtown property, brokers say. Pediatric Communications in August moved into its new quarters, providing speech, language and literacy assessments to children, adolescents and young adults. Newington Professional Center LLC owns the 12,000-square-foot building at 1268 Main St. The property's other medical tenants are engaged in internal medicine, mental health, chiropractic, counseling, laboratory and dental services. Liberty Bank also occupies a free-standing, 2,800-square-foot commercial pad site on the property. Reno Properties Group brokered the lease. Mel-Pet’s Vernon play Landlord Mel-Pet Realty Co. seeks tenants and/or a buyer for its 52,000-square-foot industrial facility in Vernon. The 6-acre property known as Vernon Industrial Place, 77 Industrial Park Road, is about 80 percent leased and has a $1.5 million pricetag, according to listing broker Sentry Commercial. Units available for lease range in size from 2,000 to 8,000 square feet. EDRO’s Berlin expansion Berlin's EDRO Corp. is building a 12,000-square-foot addition onto its facility at 37 Commerce St. in the East Berlin section of town, according to town officials. The expansion will permit EDRO to remain in town and expand production and distribution of its large commercial dryers — some of which are used aboard U.S. Navy ships and submarines. Eventually, EDRO expects to add another four to five jobs, Berlin's economic-development office recently blogged. Windsor office listing A nearly 7,000-square-foot Windsor office building is for sale at $700,000, brokers say. The free-standing building on 4 acres at 276 Addison Road, one mile from I-91 at exit 37, has 6,996 square feet of space, with a loading platform and 8-foot by 10-foot overhead door, according to listing broker Sentry Commercial. The site has parking for 28 vehicles. Darly Custom Technology is a tenant. Deal Watch wants to hear from you. E-mail it, along with contact information to: gseay@HartfordBusiness.com. Gregory Seay is the Hartford Business Journal News Editor.