🔒MRM back in downtown Hfd.

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MRM Group LLC has returned to downtown Hartford, where the provider of healthcare risk management and patient-safety solutions got its start more than a dozen years ago.

MRM recently relocated its 36 workers from Farmington to one half of the top floor of the 23-story 20 Church St. office tower, better known as the Stilts Building. MRM occupies 13,222 square feet, nearly double its previous suburban office footprint, said President and CEO Kevin W. Kelly.

Kelly said the firm wanted to stay in the general area, and considered several sites in Farmington, as well as neighboring Glastonbury, West Hartford, and other Hartford locations.

Aside from Church Street's ample space to accommodate MRM's video-recording studio and future growth, Kelly said the availability of indoor parking, fitness center, its proximity to restaurants, transportation and highways, and entertainment, plus “spectacular views from the top floor'' influenced MRM's choice for its new home.

New York's Shelbourne Global Solutions LLC owns 20 Church St.

Bluespire’s W. Hfd. relo

Bluespire Senior Living has relocated its Farmington office to West Hartford's Town Center office building.

Formerly Martino & Binzer, Bluespire occupies 9,200 square feet in Town Center, 29 South Main St., according to tenant broker Goman+York Property Advisors.

Bluespire provides full-service marketing to senior-living and nonprofit continuing-care retirement communities nationwide.

Bluespire previously was housed in Farmington's The Exchange office complex, 270 Farmington Ave.

“The creative energy and buzz created by the eclectic array of restaurants and shops in the Center plus the higher-quality space at Town Center, was a much better fit for us,” Bluespire Chief Creative Officer Dave Martino said in a statement.

Town Center is a four-story, Class A office/retail building located opposite Blue Back Square, with 180,000 square feet and an attached 800-car parking garage.

Figure Eight Properties represented landlord Town Center West Associates LLC.

Four area apt. buildings’ pricetags total $1.2M

Four fully-occupied Hartford area apartment buildings are for sale separately, according to their listing broker.

The largest, priciest of the quartet is a 12-unit building at 19 Kenneth St., in the city's South End. It is listed at $449,000, according to Hartford broker Chozick Realty Inc.'s Small Properties Group. Tenants of its 10 one- and two two-bedroom units pay their own natural gas and electricity.

At 76 Hamilton St., the six-unit Hamilton Street apartments are for sale, with a $198,000 asking price. All of its two-bedroom units have tenant-paid gas and electricity. Recent capital improvements include unit-interior upgrade and a newer rear porch.

At 539 Zion St., a five-unit apartment building with a barber shop and grocery store on the ground floor is on the market at $298,000. The apartments are two-bedrooms, with tenant-paid electricity. Recent improvements include a new gas boiler and rear staircase.

Lastly, New Britain's Oak Street Apartments, 168 Oak St., is listed at $279,000. It features two brick buildings with eight apartments — two one-, four two- and two three-bedroom units — offering tenant-paid gas and electric. The buildings share a newer paved driveway.

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Gregory Seay is the Hartford Business Journal News Editor.

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