Many former Hartford and central Connecticut offices and warehouses in recent decades have been converted into condos and apartments thanks to prominent developer-landlords Martin J. Kenny and Carlos Mouta.
Kenny, of Lexington Partners LLC, has kept his development focus across the region, developing and then selling the Trumbull On The Park apartments in downtown Hartford as well as building market-rate rental units in Glastonbury, Windsor, Wethersfield, Old Saybrook and West Hartford. He is also currently leading a development team that’s started a $100-million mixed-use project to transform Hartford’s Pratt Street retail corridor into a vibrant neighborhood.
Mouta has developed more than 1 million square feet in his native Parkville neighborhood, where he is preparing to debut a $5.1-million food/shopping hall known as Parkville Market. Mouta, who also has a few real estate holdings downtown, is looking to bring an advanced-manufacturing hub to one of his vacant Parkville buildings.