Northland Investment Corp. has added another retail tenant at its 39-story Hartford 21 residential-retail tower in downtown Hartford, this time inking a phone services company to its roster.
Meantime, Northland’s former portfolio downtown Hartford office building, Metro Center — lost to foreclosure last year — has recently gone on the sales block, realty sources say. The asking price is unknown.
At Hartford 21, Wireless Zone, the Middletown franchiser that exclusively sells Verizon products, is now hanging its shingle in a Trumbull Street storefront, next door to St. Joseph College and First Niagara Bank, formerly NewAlliance Bank.
Terms and the volume of space Wireless Zone occupies were not immediately available. Northland did not immediately respond to a phone and email for comment.
The new tenant could signal further momentum for the Hartford 21 property, which has had difficulties finding office and retail tenants since it opened in 2006.
Lately, however, Northland has had more success, inking a deal to open a long awaited grocery store, The Market at Hartford 21. NewAlliance opened a branch in the property last year.
St. Joseph College also recently leased 35,000 square feet of office space in the same complex to open a pharmacy school.
Northland is downtown Hartford’s largest commercial landlord, which has had financial problems over the last few years, magnified with its loss of the12-story Metro Center tower.
Two of the Massachusetts-based developer’s other downtown Hartford properties – Goodwin Square and City Place II — are currently in foreclosure.
Northland also owns the Standard and Crosthwaite buildings in Hartford.
