The 26,361-square-foot former home to the defunct Keiler & Co. advertising-marketing agency recently sold for $1.425 million to a New York City apartment-commercial developer who is reimagining potential uses for the 8-acre property.
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The 26,361-square-foot former home to the defunct Keiler & Co. advertising-marketing agency recently sold for $1.425 million to a New York City apartment-commercial developer who is reimagining potential uses for the 8-acre property.
Yisroel Rabinowitz, who converted a former downtown Hartford masonic lodge into 26 apartments on Ann Uccello Street and owns 11 Asylum St. downtown, among other central Connecticut commercial properties, said he bought the property at 304 Main St. (Route 10) from Lynn Taylor, Keiler's former chief executive officer.
Keiler, which closed its doors in Aug. 2015, at one time had as many as 60 people stationed in the two-story, L-shaped building, portions of which date to 1713 when it was a farmhouse, according to LoopNet.com. Over the years, several additions — the last in 1994 — expanded the building to its current size.
Rabinowitz said he is in talks with Farmington town planners about several options for “the highest and best use'' for the bucolic, tree-lined property near the intersection with Colt Highway/Route 6.
One idea, he said, is for a restaurant in the farmhouse portion of the building, with indoor-outdoor seating. Another is to retain it as an office building or convert it to a combination office-retail edifice. It has parking for 94 vehicles.
Currently, the building has a pair of small tenants who lease month-to-month, Rabinowitz said.
Hamden church’s call-center lease
Hamden's Love Center Deliverance Ministry church has leased the former AT&T call center building in town for its new home, brokers say.
Love Center inked a long-term lease for the 46,600-square-foot facility on 3.47 acres located at 335 Putnam Ave., less than a mile from its current home at 19 George St.
Hamden broker Press/Cuozzo Realtors said it represented landlord 335 Putnam Avenue LLC and procured the tenant in lease talks.
Oventrop renews in E. Granby
German valve maker Oventrop Corp. has renewed its lease for a second time on 8,160 square feet in East Granby's Airport Business Center, brokers say.
Based in Olsberg, Germany, Oventrop occupies space within the 48,480-square-foot facility at 29 Kripes Road. Its valves and controls are used for heating, cooling, air-conditioning, balancing and radiator valves, and underfloor heating.
Airport Business Center III L.P. is landlord.
In 2009, Oventrop renewed its lease and doubled to its present footprint at ABC.
Sentry Commercial was the sole broker in the lease.
Sustainable’s E. Hfd. expansion
Critical energy and industrial product developers Sustainable Innovations LLC has expanded into 8,846 square feet of industrial space in East Hartford.
David Associates 111 LLC owns the 74,722-square-foot facility on 6.34 acres at 111 Roberts St.
Sentry Commercial represented Sustainable in the lease.
Bloomfield parcel price cut
The asking price for a 17.6-acre parcel on Bloomfield's Woodland Avenue has been cut by $150,000, to $1.125 million, brokers say.
The acreage at 270 Woodland Ave. is in the shadow of the Niagara Water Bottling facility under construction at 380 Woodland Ave. It is suitable for residential and commercial development, according to listing broker Reno Properties Group of Newington.
It is also within the Day Hill Road corporate area. Development potential includes residential and commercial, Reno said.
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Gregory Seay is the Hartford Business Journal News Editor.
