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12 Hartford Business Journal•January5,2015 www.HartfordBusiness.com For more info about ways the Hartford Business Journal can help you reach your target audience, contact Jessica Baker at 860-236-9998 x122 or jbaker@HartfordBusiness.com In Print. Online. In Person. www.HartfordBusiness.com Delivering Business. Our readers respond to our advertisers' marketing messages. We will deliver your marketing message to the C-suite and the corner office. In the past 12 months, what actions, if any, have you taken as a result of reading Hartford Business Journal? (% of Total Respondents) 55% Contacted a company because of an advertisement in Hartford Business Journal 65% Discussed an item you saw in Hartford Business Journal with others 57% Passed an item along or refer information to a business associate/client 25% Visited www.HartfordBusiness.com to send a link of an item to someone 33% Saved entire issue 33% Saved items of interest 03% None of these 55% Response Source: Circulation Verification Council. Publication audit report and reader survey for HBJ. July 1, 2013-March 31, 2014 Deal Watch Hamden investor plucks another Silas Deane Hwy. bldg. T he Meadows office building at 1344 Silas Deane Highway in Rocky Hill has changed hands for the second time in a decade, drawing $6.9 million, brokers say. Hamden's JMM Properties LLC bought the 55,547-square-foot building and an adja- cent retail pad site from DF Group LLC. Colliers International was DF Group's broker in this transaction. Colliers also brokered the sale for the seller when the building last changed hands in 2004. This is JMM's third realty play on the Silas Deane Highway corridor. In late summer of 2012, JMM paid $2 mil- lion for a largely vacant, four-story office- building at 1290 Silas Deane Highway in Wethersfield, which is drawing enough ten- ant interest to be virtually full, brokers say. By this past summer, JMM, with a $4.85 million permanent loan from First Niagara Bank, had renovated the interior/exterior of the 41-year-old glass-and-brick building and drew seven tenants occupying all but 12,500 of its 90,000 square feet, brokers said at the time. By installing a new roof, heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, windows, com- mon areas, elevators and landscaping, JMM transformed 1290 Silas Deane to Class A sta- tus, meaning it can charge higher rents than older, less desirable Class B and C spaces. • • • More colliers leases In Windsor, at 360 Bloomfield Ave., mar- keting-media adviser Planitretail leased 3,188 square feet for an expansion of its offices. Siebar Windsor LLC is landlord. Colliers represented Planitretail. In Glastonbury, Solidify Inc. signed for 2,956 square feet at 655 Winding Brook to relocate its offices. Colliers represented Solidify in its lease from NPV Direct Invest. In Bloomfield, Northeast National Bro- kerage LLC leased 1,659 square feet at 34 Jerome Ave. for its Connecticut office. 34 Jerome Avenue LLC is landlord. In Rocky Hill, Allied Electronics signed for 1,744 square feet at 750 Old Main St. H. Pearce Co. repre- sented landlord Worthington Properties LLC. Also in Bloomfield, logistics-software vendor Accellos Inc. renewed its lease for 7,747 square feet at 204 West Newberry Road with landlord Griffin Land. Colliers represented Accellos. • • • o'Shea Getz's ct office Springfield intellectual law firm O'Shea Getz P.C. has chosen Farmington for its first Connecticut office. The firm recently signed a long-term lease with landlord Waterside Ten LLC for 2,124 square feet of office space at 10 Waterside Drive for its new office to open in early January. Sentry Commercial was O'Shea Getz's broker. Colliers International represented Waterside Ten. • • • Wallingford bldg. sale An 11,000-square-foot Wallingford retail building on Center Street sold in early December for $550,000, brokers say. Mercier Property Trust LLC bought the structure that rests on 0.38 acres at 142- 158 Center St. from First Garden Develop- ment LP, according to seller's broker Press/ Cuozzo Commercial Services. The building also contains 11,000 square feet of finished space on the lower level. The sale included an operating laundromat. Grand Estates Real Estate represented the buyer. n Deal Watch wants to hear from you. E-mail it, along with contact information to: gseay@HartfordBusiness.com. Greg Seay is the Hartford Business Journal News Editor. Greg Seay (Left) 1344 Silas Deane Highway, Rocky Hill. (Above) 142-158 Center St. in Wallingford. p H o t o S | c o n t r i B u t e d