Guilford, CT Guilford Development Partners, LLC an affiliate of New England Retail Properties, Inc. of Wethersfield, Conn. has completed construction of Tractor Supply’s 1,465th store, the 12th store in Conn. After 5 years of investigation and reviewing numerous sites, the selected property is a portion of the former Sullivan Apple Farm on Rte. 1.
The team which took this from ground up to open store were Mark D’Addabbo, Matthew Darling and James Stachelek from Guilford Partners, developers; Mary Meehan and Matthew Krokov from PeoplesBank in Holyoke who provide both construction and permanent financing for the project; Tom Moriarty of Moriarty, Petzold & Sherwood who handed the lease negotiations; Jim Cassidy, PE who’s firm was responsible for the civil engineering, Oxford Architecture from Nashville, TN acted as the building design firm; WR Newman also from Nashville TN handled the building construction and Xenelis Construction of Middlefield, CT was responsible for the site work.
Randolph, MA Sterling Trust has sold its Sterling Plaza neighborhood retail site located at 45 Mazzeo Dr. to The Shops at Randolph, LLC. The property is home to several restaurants, including the West End Grill, The Well, Outback Steakhouse and It’s Game Time Sportsbar.
Placemaking. That is the word for 2024. While the concept has historical precedence in urban development, it became part of our current culture in the 1960’s when urbanists started to think about cities for people, not just cars.