South Windsor developer TruNORTH Construction received the go-ahead from Glastonbury’s Planning and Zoning Commission to build an office condominium park in town.
The $7-million project will create four new office condos at 219 Addison Road that will collectively hold 18 units, TruNORTH President Jeff Sawyer said. Each unit will be 1,350 square feet, and Sawyer hopes to have shovels in the ground by Dec. 1.
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the number of people working from home, but Sawyer doesn’t think that dynamic will keep businesses from buying space in the condo park. He said physicians, therapists and smaller financial services firms will still need physical space from which to base their operations, regardless of the pandemic.
 “Obviously we’re taking a big risk,” Sawyer said. “But we feel like it’s an opportunity.”
Further, Sawyer said, TruNORTH built a similar office condo project in Glastonbury about a decade ago, another difficult time for the U.S. economy.
“I feel like if I could get through the financial downturn, I can get through the pandemic,” Sawyer said.Â
The 2.5-acre property at 219 Addison Road is currently owned by 219 Addison Road LLC, which is controlled by Anthony J. Natale, town and state records show.
219 Addison Road LLC bought the property in 2017 for $247,000. The property is currently appraised at $237,700, town records show.Â
The land is currently under contract for $535,000, Sawyer said, and the company will buy the property.
TruNorth has a history of building similar office condos in the area. The group built 33 condo units in South Windsor between 2004 and 2008, Sawyer said, and 12 in Glastonbury’s Somerset Square in 2010
Sawyer said the project will take about a year and a half to complete.
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