When Sami Abunasra acquired the former Puritan Furniture Store on New Britain Avenue in the Elmwood section of West Hartford in 2020, he originally planned to use the site only for furniture retail, as an addition to the Ashley HomeStore locations he owns and operates in Manchester and Newington.
But the longer he looked at plans for the address, and the more he spoke with town officials about how they would like to see the area develop, Abunasra came around to the idea of building a mixed-use residential and commercial project, in which his store would serve as a tenant.
After a years-long search for a suitable buyer, Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to sell a piece of property adjacent to its campus on Trout Brook Drive currently the home of the Children’s Museum of Connecticut to New York-based Continental Properties, which plans to build a luxury rental community there.
Kingswood Oxford officials said the school began looking for a potential buyer last January, after the Children’s Museum renewed its long-running search for a new location.
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