The fourth Connecticut store for Tennessee farm/gardening products retailer Tractor Supply Co. is under construction in Colchester.
The 19,097-square-foot store, catering to full- and part-time farmers and horsemen, will anchor a 23-acre site at 150 New London Rd. when it opens in October. The building’s pricetag wasn’t disclosed.
It will employ between 12 and 17 full- and part-time workers, Tractor Supply spokesman Rob Hoskins said.
Developer-landlord Mark D’Addabbo, of 4 Way Street LLC, also is developing the tract to house an 8,000-square-foot pad for future retail, office, or medical use, authorities said.
PeoplesBank, of Holyoke, Mass., is financing the building.
New England Retail Properties is overseeing project leasing.
Tractor Supply’s other Connecticut stores are in Farmington, New Milford and Windham.
Based in Brentwood, Tenn., Tractor Supply has more than 1,176 stores in 45 states.
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Sacred Heart’s new Wellness Center
Sacred Heart University is constructing its new Wellness Center adjacent to its Fairfield campus on Park Avenue.
Rose-Tiso & Co. in Fairfield designed the $2.2 million two-story, colonial-style, 5,800-square-foot building to be on the Bridgeport side of Park Avenue, across from the main campus at 5151 Park Ave.
When completed in July, it will serve as a place for acute health and medical needs and will also offer students counseling and therapeutic services.
Lanese Construction of Bridgeport is the general contractor.
It will replace the private college’s existing, 2,400-square-foot student healthcare facility situated on the Fairfield side of Park Avenue.
The first floor of the new Wellness Center will house a reception and waiting area, medical record storage room, several examination rooms, a physician’s office and both a supervisor’s office and nurse’s office. The second floor will consist of a health resource area, wellness center and several counseling suites. It will also be equipped with a laboratory and wellness room to accommodate vaccinations and other services.
In 2008, Sacred Heart and St. Vincent’s Medical Center partnered to give students access to physicians on campus.
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$4M Norwalk retail refi
A Norwalk shopping center has gotten $4 million in refinancing from Rhode Island’s Washington Trust.
The 92,592-square-foot center at 327 Main Ave. has eight tenants, with a CVS Pharmacy as anchor.
The former industrial property was totally renovated to house retail in 2002. There are no immediate plans for further upgrades to the property, according to a spokesman for landlord 327 Main Avenue Associates.
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Guardian’s Madison space
Guardian Life Insurance Co. signed a long-term lease on 3,587 square feet in a Madison Class A office building.
Bank of America previously occupied the first-floor “tower suite’’ space at 121 Boston Post Rd.
The building, with 32,000 square feet of space, is owned by 121 Boston Post Road LLC.
Pearce Commercial was sole broker in the lease.
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