🔒Middletown professional park sold for $1.525M

The Middlesex Professional Park medical-office complex on Saybrook Road in Middletown has a new owner who paid $1.525 million, brokers say.

Middlesex Professional Park LLC, an affiliate of Newington's Reno Properties Group LLC, bought the property at 760-770 Saybrook Road, according to Reno Properties, which represented the buyer in the deal.

Saybrook Sam LLC was the seller.

Middlesex Hospital is among the 22,925-square-foot, Class B office complex's eight tenants, Reno Properties said.

$1.1M Vernon listing

A 34,646-square-foot Vernon industrial building is on the market with a $1.1 million asking price, brokers say.

The building on 5.13 acres at 60 Industrial Park Road contains 7,686 square feet of office space, and is equipped with 1,200- and 600-amp power, one dock and three drive-in doors, said listing broker Sentry Commercial.

E. Hartford price cuts

Asking prices have been reduced on a pair of East Hartford commercial properties, the broker says.

The previous $2.45 million asking price for 47 Leggett St. has been cut to $2.15 million, or $30 a square foot, according to listing broker Sentry Commercial. Next door, the price of the building at 69 Leggett St. was trimmed to $1.43 million, or $20 per square foot, from $2.15 million.

Each building has 71,000 square feet.

$750K Vernon listing

A 9,916-square-foot South Windsor industrial building is on the market with a $750,000 pricetag, brokers say.

The 30-year-old building on 2 acres at 279 Nutmeg Road South also has a pair of eight- and 10-foot overhead doors, and 4,200 square feet of finished office space, says listing broker Sentry Commercial.

Berlin Turnpike Wood-n-Tap

A Wood-n-Tap Bar & Grill restaurant has opened on the Berlin Turnpike in Newington.

Hartford Restaurant Group LLC signed a 10-year lease for 9,000 square feet in the Raymour & Flanigan furniture building at 3375 Berlin Turnpike for its ninth Wood-n-Tap restaurant, all in central Connecticut, according to tenant broker The Proto Group of North Haven.

Raymour & Flanigan negotiated the lease on behalf of landlord Furniture Executives No. 4 LP. The Proto Group represented the tenant.

J. Harstan's in Wallingford

J. Harstan's Jewelers has leased 3,500 square feet in a retail center on Wallingford's North Colony Road, brokers say.

With Harstan's five-year lease, valued at $372,000, the 10,730-square-foot retail center is now fully leased, according to sole broker The Proto Group.

Other tenants include Starbucks, Great Clips, AT&T Phone Store and Panchero's Mexican Grill.

CRI's Waterbury lease

Community Residence Inc. (CRI), a Newington nonprofit that assists people with special needs, has leased a Waterbury property as a maintenance facility and warehouse, brokers say.

CRI leased 1,500 square feet at 617 Watertown Ave. in a three-year lease valued at $30,600.

The Proto Group LLC represented landlord The Frank DeVino Family L.P. Wollman Realty represented the tenant.

Carstar's Berlin addition Carstar has completed a 3,000-square-foot, $685,000 addition to its Berlin auto body shop.

Carstar recently drew town officials and others to a ribbon-cutting for the previously 10,000-square-foot facility at 51 Woodlawn Road. The facility opened in 1980. Berlin's JNL Contracting was project manager.

With the addition, Carstar added four new employees to its previously 10-person staff, said Berlin economic-development director Chris Edge.

Carstar business director Lisa Siembab said the old offices did not fit with its aim to improve customer service.

Carstar repairs annually approximately 1,000 vehicles — primarily Hondas and Acuras, officials said. 

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Gregory Seay is the Hartford Business Journal News Editor.