Long a force in Connecticut commercial real estate, developer Mark Greenberg is having a major impact on the town of Windsor, where he’s assembling a sports and retail complex.
Greenberg is part-owner of an 80-foot-tall sports dome that opened Dec. 1, at his roughly 150-acre property assemblage along Day Hill Road. The $11 million, 95,000-square-foot facility is attracting interest from teams and leagues across the Northeast.
The Day Hill Dome joins 11 fields (soon to be 12) of FastPitch Nation – a for-profit softball facility on Greenberg’s property. Last year, the 16,500-square-foot Dudleytown Brewing Co. debuted as one of several new tenants in Greenberg’s 106,568-square-foot commercial building at 1001 Day Hill Road.
And there’s plenty more to come. Greenberg is angling to build dormitory space at the 1001 Day Hill Road building for professional soccer players with the Hartford Athletic, which practices at the neighboring dome.
Greenberg is also scheduled to begin site work on a $9 million, 90-room Microtel hotel at the sports complex in February.
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Greenberg, who lives in Litchfield, is also part of a team advancing plans for a 100,000-square-foot, 3,000-seat velodrome for indoor team-track cycling, with an attached 40,000-square-foot field house.
Meantime, he expects to shortly submit plans for a 150-unit apartment building at 1095 Day Hill Road, a property he owns within sight of the sports-centered development area. Elsewhere in Windsor, Greenberg is hoping to turn two vacant office properties – one of which he owns – into 200 to 300 apartments.
Greenberg is also advancing plans for separate large-scale developments in various towns.
He’s eyeing a 200-unit, mixed-income apartment development on 35 acres on the Canton/Simsbury town line. He expects to sell 11 acres in Avon to a Boston-based affordable housing developer with plans for 172 apartments.
Greenberg is also seeking approval for a mixed-use, 150-unit luxury apartment development with ground-floor retail space along a main artery in Southbury.