New condos coming to edge of Batterson Park

A mixture of two- and three-bedroom condominiums are about to be inbuilt New Britain close to the southwestern fringe of Batterson Park.

The wooded subject behind Frisbie’s Dairy Barn alongside Farmington Avenue might be cleared this summer season, and new housing might be constructed beginning later within the 12 months and persevering with by late 2024, in accordance with property proprietor and developer Michael Frisbie.

The 22 new models would be the metropolis’s first new large-scale or moderate-scale condominium mission in years. New Britain is within the midst of an unprecedented wave of recent house building, however the apartment market has been unchanged.

“That is including to our housing inventory, offering a bit extra of a range past simply the (new) residences being constructed,” Jack Benjamin, the town’s director of planning and improvement, mentioned Tuesday at a groundbreaking for the mission. “There might be condominiums, city house fashion, right here.”

Known as Alexander Place at Batterson Park, the brand new improvement ought to be accomplished in a 12 months to a 12 months and a half, Frisbie mentioned Tuesday.

Primarily based on the economic system this month, the two-bedroom condos might be priced from the mid-$200,000 vary to the low $300,000s, whereas the three-bedroom models will vary from the mid-$300,000s to the excessive $300,000s, Frisbie mentioned.

However as with most builders on this time of building inflation, financial uncertainty and provide chain disruptions, he acknowledged that might change within the subsequent 12 months. The corporate will construct every unit at 2,300 sq. toes, he mentioned, and can decide from market response what number of might be configured with two bedrooms and what number of with three.

9 years in the past, Frisbie constructed the Frisbie Dairy Barn and Noble gasoline station on the nook of Farmington Avenue and Alexander Highway. He and his enterprise companion, Abdul Tammo, have since constructed 9 different Noble service stations across the state, and envision seven extra this 12 months.

As a part of that small industrial advanced, Frisbie is clearing a small parcel between the ice cream store and gasoline station; it can change into a automobile wash, he mentioned.

The apartment advanced might be straight behind the gasoline station. Noble plans a brand new street with each ends on Alexander that may curve by the property and serve the driveway of every apartment.

The undeveloped apartment land is a part of the nook parcel that Noble purchased at Farmington and Alexander for $1.6 million in 2014.

“We’ve been speaking loads currently concerning the transformation our metropolis is present process and the best way we’re purposefully creating alternatives for development in each single neighborhood,” Mayor Erin Stewart mentioned on the ceremony. “I maintain saying we’re rebuilding our metropolis block by block.

“Alexander Place at Batterson Park will give these seeking to stay right here in New Britain a novel alternative to buy their very own lovely house in a ravishing space of our metropolis,” she mentioned.

Stewart mentioned she thinks the models will attraction to single, younger individuals in addition to younger households who wish to personal however don’t need the upkeep calls for of a single-family home. Older residents who wish to downsize and get away from yard upkeep may be patrons, she mentioned.

“With the residences that we’re including to our downtown, we’d like someplace for individuals to graduate to, have homeownership. It’s a quite common theme I hear, ‘Do you’ve got any extra condos?’ There’s going to be extra choices than Brittany Farms,” Stewart mentioned, referring to the massive apartment advanced about 2 miles to the northeast.