Issue link: https://nebusinessmedia.uberflip.com/i/1535392
HARTFORDBUSINESS.COM | MAY 19, 2025 7 DE AL WATCH | BUYERS & SELLERS 860.482.7613 | www.borghesibuilding.com 2155 East Main Street, Torrington, CT 06790 Check out our new website! Do you need a specialty building for your business? Do you need a specialty building for your business? © 2011 BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. All rights reserved. Butler Manufacturing ™ is a division of BlueScope Buildings North America, Inc. Creating "Building Ideas That Work" has been the Borghesi specialty since 1942. We are prepared to work with you all the way from concept to occupancy. PROJECT SPOTLIGHT NETTLETON HILL FARM CT Home Interiors sells West Hartford showroom building for $2.4M T he longtime West Hartford showroom for Connecticut Home Inte- riors has sold for $2.4 million. Tom Hall, the 83-year-old owner of the one-story building at 830 Farmington Ave., said he sold the 54,000-square-foot building his business has occupied for 41 years to his listing agent, Michael Guidicelli, of Regions Commercial Real Estate Advisors. The sale includes an agreement for the furniture store to lease the prop- erty for at least one year. Guidicelli said he doesn't have any definitive plans for the building after the lease expires. Guidicelli also owns the property adjacent to Connecticut Home Interiors, at 820 Farmington Ave., a 12,140-square-foot mixed-use office building he acquired for $525,000 in February 2022. Connecticut Home Interiors' building at 830 Farmington Ave., in West Hartford. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO WINDSOR LOCKS West Hartford apartment devel- oper The Hexagon Group plans to transform a Windsor Locks office and research facility it recently purchased into 53 apartments and a small commercial space. The West Hartford developer early this month acquired the vacant 52,416-square-foot building at 2 Elm St., from manufacturer Ahlstrom for $650,000. Hexagon Group has also submitted a special-use permit application to the town, seeking to transform the building into a mix of 53 apartments on two floors, with a 2,360-square- foot commercial space and a 1,578-square-foot tenant storage area on the ground floor. The building would host 18 studio apartments, 31 one-bedroom units and four two-bedroom dwellings, according to the application. BLOOMFIELD A Rhode Island developer is proposing to build a 15,349-square- foot commercial building on land currently owned by the University of Hartford in Bloomfield. The developer, Estero Holding Company LLC, has an agreement to purchase the roughly 8 acres at 529 Cottage Grove Road and 12 North- western Drive, once it receives town approvals, according to a wetlands permit application. Estero is proposing to build a one-story structure with five tenant spaces, ranging from 4,000 square feet to 2,000 square feet, facing Route 218 (Cottage Grove Road). Plans, which require town approvals, show a drive-thru ATM, which indi- cates one of the tenants could be a bank. FAIRFIELD A large-scale proposal to demolish an 80-room hotel in Fairfield and replace it with a 110-room hotel and 250-unit apartment building has been approved. Norwalk-based Spinnaker Real Estate Partners has gained town approval to raze the Circle Hotel Fair- field, at 441 Post Road, and construct the two massive, four-story structures on the 8-acre site. The hotel will contain 59,148 square feet of space, while the apartment building will house 256,568 square feet, plans show. Of the 250 apart- ments, 12% will be deemed affordable. The apartment building will have 36 studios averaging 560 square feet; 150, one-bedroom units averaging 785 square feet; and 64, two-bedroom units averaging 1,176 square feet, plans show.