Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | February 21, 2022 | Worcester Business Journal 5 Car dealer adds downtown Worcester buildings to portfolio for $5M A property along Worcester's Main Street including two commercial buildings sold for $5 million to an entity registered to Barry Lundgren, the owner of an Auburn-based Honda car dealership. e properties included in the sale were 180, 184, and 174 Main St., according to the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds. e parcels consist of a five-story, 30,000-square-foot commercial building, a six-story, 26,000-square-foot office, and a parking lot, totaling about $4.9 million in assessed value, according to the City of Worcester. e occupants of the properties include the Worcester Law Library, Oring Investment Group, and a print shop known as AlphaGraphics. Both businesses have executed new leases and will stay, said a representative from Lundgren Equity Partners. e plan is to make small improvements and manage the property as is. e properties were sold by 180 Main Street Associates LLC, registered to Robert and Katherine Oring of Oring Investment Group, and Kenneth Dearden and Raymond Mantyla, Jr. of AlphaGraphics. B R I E FS W BJ has partnered with the Worcester Historical Museum to run a year-long trivia contest in celebration of the 300th anniversary of Worcester's founding on June 14, 1722. Readers should email their answer to the question below by March 3 to bkane@wbjournal.com or visit the trivia page on WBJoural.com to compete for a special year-end prize package. Sponsored by Worcester 300 trivia contest -part 4 And the answer to last edition's question: e long-time manufacturing site on which the Osgood Bradley Building was built is now known as the student housing complex e Edge at Union Station. Early Hollywood e writer Samuel Behrman was born to Lithuanian immigrant parents in Worcester, living much of his early life in a three-decker on Providence Street, of which he wrote: "ese triple-deckers, which straggled up our hill, were mostly sadly in need of paint jobs and their mass appearance was somewhat depressing. But in many other respects they were not so bad. ey had balconies, front and back, which we called piazzas. e yards in the back had fruit trees–cherry and pear and apple." roughout his career, Behrman would work as a screenwriter, playwright, and regular writer for e New Yorker. n Trivia question: Samuel Behrman contributed as a screenwriter on three movies for what famous Hollywood actor, including her last film "Two-Faced Woman"? today. fidelitybankonline.com Clarity. Confidence. You deserve a bank that actually cares. With our unique LifeDesign Banking approach, you will get the clarity you need to make informed decisions, so that you'll be able to move forward with confidence. 800.581.5363 | FidelityBankOnline.com Samuel Behrman

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