UConn Health has consolidated some of its patient practices and other operations into newly renovated medical-office space in an East Hartford building overlooking the Connecticut River and downtown Hartford.
After a bid process, UConn Health settled on 12,424 square feet at 800 Connecticut Blvd., across from the Hoffman Lexus auto dealership.
According to UConn, its existing East Hartford practices, at 99 Ash St., relocated there, effective Feb. 9. Those include internal medicine; pediatrics; obstetrics and gynecology; nephrology; rheumatology; cardiology; endocrinology, diabetes education; and a blood-drawing station.
“We’re pleased to offer great, personalized care in a new and convenient location for residents in the East Hartford area,” said Marianne Dess-Santoro, vice president for ambulatory care at UConn Health.
The 10-year lease pays $13.25 per square foot the first year, a UConn spokeswoman said.
UConn spent $1.8 million to renovate the space, the spokeswoman said. Mark Greenberg Real Estate is landlord.
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E. Hartford school leased
Behavioral and developmental-support services provider Adelbrook Inc. has leased the former St. Rose Church school building in East Hartford.
Adelbrook signed a long-term lease for the 24,000-square-foot building at 21 Church St. It was previously leased for a time to the Capital Region Education Council (CREC), said broker Frank Amodio, of Amodio & Co. Real Estate, who represented St. Rose in the lease.
The building, on eight acres, has classrooms, a library, offices, and gymnasium with stage and kitchen.
According to Amodio, the facility opened in 1955 as a Catholic elementary school until around 2010, when it closed due to low enrollment.
CREC leased it in June 2010 as a temporary home for its International Magnet School for Global Citizenship until the school’s new home was built and opened in June 2014.
H. Pearce Co. Commercial Real Estate represented Adelbrook.
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Vernon’s Fox Hill redo
The 74-unit Fox Hill Commons apartments in Vernon are about to undergo a multi-million-dollar upgrade, its Rhode Island lender says.
Washington Trust’s Commercial Real Estate Group says the Westerly, R.I., lender recently provided $4.3 million to Taymil Vernon Portfolio LLC, of Framingham, Mass., for Fox Hill’s refinancing and capital improvements.
Built in 1965, Fox Hill Commons, 101 South St., a mile from I-84, has 50 two-bedroom and 24 one-bedroom, townhouse-style apartments, ranging from 715 square feet to 770 square feet. Improvements will include upgrades in energy efficiency, interior and common area updates.
Last March, landlord Taymil Partners LLC got a $3.9 million loan refi from Washington Trust to upgrade its 72-unit Manchester Green Apartments, a four-building complex at 167 E. Center St. in Manchester.
According to Taymil’s homepage, it has eight other Connecticut multifamily properties, including Arbor Commons, Pinney Brook and Stonebridge, all in Ellington; and in East and West Haven, and Litchfield.
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BTX shrinks space
Windsor freight-forwarder BTX Global Logistics is downsizing to 5,100 square feet of office and industrial space four miles across town, at 800 Marshall Phelps Road.
BTX will relocate from 900 River Road, where it relocated in 2012 into 8,400 square feet in the Kennedy Business Park.
800 Marshall Phelps Road is a 40,000-square-foot industrial facility on 24.1 acres. Sponzo Enterprises LLC is landlord.
Sentry Commercial represented BTX in the lease.
Greg Seay is the Hartford Business Journal News Editor.
