The University of Hartford has sold a 10.4-acre campus on Asylum Avenue that was once home to the Hartford College for Women.
The $1 million sale of three adjacent properties was recorded March 14, according to city assessing records. It includes the properties at 1265, 1283 and 1315 Asylum Ave.
The buyer – Great Neck, N.Y.-based Hartford Gardens LLC, was formed in February, according to state business records. Its principals include Boston Holding LLC, of Great Neck, and William Goodman, also of Great Neck.
Goodman lists a Great Neck address shared by Goodman Capital LLC, an entity that, on its LinkedIn page, describes itself as an “integrated real estate investment firm specializing in value-add and distressed debt opportunities in the New York City and Long Island markets, focusing on multi-family, mixed-use and commercial real estate assets.”
Attempts to reach Goodman and a representative for the University of Hartford were not immediately successful Friday.
Hartford Gardens, on March 9, took a $2.4 million mortgage from Hartford Servicing LLC, using the Asylum Avenue addresses as collateral. Both entities share the same Great Neck address.
Together, the properties cover 10.4 acres and host several college buildings dating back to around 1920. The University of Hartford acquired these properties in 1991.
According to an archived post on the University of Hartford website, the former Hartford College for Women campus had hosted townhouse accommodations for 26 graduate students; a graduate program in architecture; the University of Hartford Center for Professional Development; and the university’s Entrepreneurial Center, as well the nonprofit Construction Institute.
Currently, the Montessori Training Center Northeast, managed by the Capitol Region Educational Council, currently inhabits two of three floors in a brick building at 1265 Asylum Ave. The third floor is not updated and vacant, according to staff.
Courtney Reim, operations manager of the training center, said it has offered professional training in the Montessori technique to adults, as well as diplomas and degrees, at the Asylum Avenue site since 2017. The training center operates in conjunction with the University of Hartford, she said.
Reim said her organization is aware of the sale and hopeful it might be able to work out arrangements to remain.
“We do love our home and are looking to stay,” Reim said.
