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www.HartfordBusiness.com July 20, 2015 • Hartford Business Journal 11 DEAL WATCH Ex-Avon cop donates space for Favarh's new home F avarh — The Arc of the Farmington Valley — has a new Avon home for its firewood bundling operations. The landlord, retired Avon police Sgt. Brett Eisenlohr, has donated use of about 2,500 square feet of the 20,000-square- foot former Specialty Coatings Solutions manufacturing building he owns at 205 Old Farms Road, at the corner of Sandscreen Road, Favarh Executive Director Stephen F. Morris said. The rest of the building is available for lease. Favarh (pronounced "FAY-var") employs about a dozen people with intellectual disabilities. For the past three years, Favarh's fire- wood operations were in the former auto body shop of the old Wagner Ford car dealership on Hopmeadow Street in Sims- bury. However, that property was recently sold, Morris said. Favarh's split and bundled firewood is then wholesaled to various supermarkets and gas stations in the Farmington Valley and beyond, he said. Favarh supports more than 350 people and fami- lies throughout the Greater Hartford region. S/L/A/M's Arnhold design G l a s t o n b u r y architects The S/L/ A/M Collaborative designed the newly opened $12 million, 11,000-square-foot Arnhold Emergency Department at New Milford Hospital. The expansion is the largest in the hospital's history and will enable it to serve more than 20,000 patients annually, officials said O&G Industries CM was the contractor. CAHS moving The Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS) is relocating its midtown Hartford offices in late July about a block away to make room for an expanding state- agency tenant. The nonprofit provider of advocacy and services to the needy is leaving about 4,400 square feet at 110 Bartholomew St. for about the same size office space at 245 Hamilton St., in the city's Parkville neighborhood, said CAHS Policy Director Roger Senserrich. The state Department of Children and Families (DCF), a fellow tenant at 110 Bartholomew, is expanding onto CAHS's fourth-floor space, Senserrich said. CAHS has about 16 employees. Bartholomew Hamilton Associates is landlord of 245 Hamilton, which has mul- tiple tenants occupying much of its 50,000 square feet of office space, including dura- ble-plastics maker Futuramik Group. In addition, the property contains about 100,000 square feet of manufacturing area. W. Hfd. pair for lease A pair of two-story office buildings is for lease in West Hartford. The property at 199-211 Oakwood Ave. totals 10,095 square feet. According to listing broker Sentry Commercial, the buildings can accommodate office, retail or residential uses. Both have finished basements, ample parking and easy access to I-84. n Deal Watch wants to hear from you. E-mail it, along with contact information to: gseay@HartfordBusiness.com. Gregory Seay is the Hartford Business Journal News Editor. Gregory Seay DEAL WATCH 205 Old Farms Road in Avon. P H O T O | C O N T R I B U T E D P H O T O | C O N T R I B U T E D New Milford Hospital's new Arnhold Emergency Department.

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