The Hamden developer who plans to covert the former Ames headquarters in Rocky Hill into a mixed-use residential community has purchased the property for $2.3 million, property records show.
Michael Belfonti of Belfonti Cos. said an LLC he controls – Rocky Hill Gateway LLC – closed on the property last month and remediation on the 12.1 acre site has already begun. The property includes a 225,000-square-foot building that will be knocked down and replaced with 213 apartments in 11 buildings, 5,000 square feet of office space and 15,000 square feet of retail.
The former Ames headquarters in Rocky Hill went from a bustling office building with hundreds of workers to a sad, abandoned hulk over two decades.
Now, after years of planning and negotiation, officials voted in February to approve a mixed-use development proposed by Hamden developer Michael Belfonti for the 12.1-acre property.
The plan is to knock down the roughly 225,000-square-foot building and replace it with 213 apartments in 11 buildings, 11,067 square feet of office space and 9,959 square feet of retail.
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