After lying fallow for a decade and a half, the former Tommy K’s video store at 1636 Whitney Ave., Hamden is soon to be reborn.
Seller Tommy Kelleher is the namesake of the video chain, which once numbered 18 stores and was the largest of its type in Connecticut. Kelleher sold the Whitney Ave. building, which housed the video chain’s first and flagship store, to the owners of A.L.K. Wine & Liquors, directly across the street from Kelleher’s building at 1651 Dixwell.
The liquor store is adjacent to the former Mauro Motors, whose principal, Michael Mauro, owns the liquor store’s building.
The purchase price was reported to be $300,000.
Ankit Patel owns A.L.K., as well as West Haven Discount Liquor, with two business partners. The trio plan to move their Hamden store across the street into the former Tommy K’s.
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3825 Whitney Ave., Hamden
Vincenzo Buontempo has acquired a 1,505-square-foot commercial building at 3825 Whitney Ave., Hamden from Leonard Paolella. The property is a 0.5-acre lot near the Sleeping Giant golf course in the Mt. Carmel section of town. The current occupant of the space is Si Mangia Pizzeria. Kevin Geenty of the Geenty Group, Realtors in Branford represented the seller, while Kelsey Oddo of DePodesta Real Estate in Hamden represented buyer Buontempo, who owns a number of companies from a construction contracting business to a retail pizza establishment. The sale closed Dec. 6.