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Customers poured through the doors of Bear’s Smokehouse for a 90-minute lunch break during the Mary Kay cosmetics convention at the nearby Connecticut Convention Center in March.
“We had three to four hundred come in that hour-and-a-half,” said Tyler Burrill, director of operations for the restaurant. “This place was packed.”
That’s a refreshing difference from the past couple years, when COVID-19 shut down entertainment venues that fed restaurants and shops in the Front Street District.
Downtown Hartford’s Front Street Lofts apartments, built in 2015 as the first residential component of the city’s Front Street Entertainment District, have sold for $35.3 million, the Hartford Business Journal has confirmed.
The 121-unit residential, mixed-use development was sold last month to Front Street Lofts Ventures LLC, which is controlled by Shlomo Katz and Shloime Rosenberg who share a Lakewood, New Jersey business address, state records show.
Katz and Rosenberg, operators of SRK Management LLC, have been active investors in Connecticut.