The Hartford Parking Authority has found new quarters downtown for its customer-service and administrative offices.The quasi-public city agency that oversees Hartford’s more than several thousand slots of curbside, garage and surface lot parking signed a 10-year lease at 11 Asylum St. with Brooklyn, N.Y., landlord Yisroel Rabinowitz, parking authority CEO Eric Boone says.Boone and his […]
The Hartford Parking Authority has found new quarters downtown for its customer-service and administrative offices.
The quasi-public city agency that oversees Hartford's more than several thousand slots of curbside, garage and surface lot parking signed a 10-year lease at 11 Asylum St. with Brooklyn, N.Y., landlord Yisroel Rabinowitz, parking authority CEO Eric Boone says.
Boone and his five HPA lieutenants, plus two dozen more affiliated parking staffers, by December will occupy 7,000 square feet on the second floor of 11 Asylum, whose ground floor is home to retail tenants including Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts and Sam's Quick Stop.
Under the lease — financial terms of which aren't being aired — Rabinowitz will install an elevator to accommodate HPA staff as well as customers who come to pay fines and fees, Boone said. Also, four parking spaces fronting Asylum Street, he said, will be set aside as 30-minute paid parking for visitors into 11 Asylum, or into venues across Main Street, to use bank ATMs, make fast-food pickups or other quick stops.
Sentry Commercial was HPA's lease broker. RM Bradley Co. represented Rabinowitz.
HPA's old quarters — about 6,100 square feet inside the Morgan Street Garage — are being ceded over to the state of Connecticut, which in 2013 paid the city $23 million to buy the garage. The facility will shelter vehicles owned by workers of several state agencies who will eventually occupy the nearby former Connecticut River Plaza that the state also acquired and is refurbishing.
Meantime, HPA last week signed a contract with Municipal Parking Services, of Minnetonka, Minn., to test MPS's electronic meters in various places around downtown Hartford. HPA's current meter vendor is Parkeon, whose meters parkers now use to pay for one of the 1,600 curbside spaces, Boone said.
The MPS test will run about 90 days, Boone said, so HPA can evaluate their ease of use and reliability, among other things.
— Gregory Seay
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