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130 and 134 Park St.: Recently purchased byPennsylvania-based developer.
A Pennsylvania-based developer spent $4.7 million buying up the western half of a Park Street block where he plans to build a mixed-use project that could include retail, restaurants, apartments, or a hotel.
According to the city land records database, on Jan. 22, New Haven Land LLC, a holding company owned by Sean McCloskey of the Penn Real Estate Group, purchased the two-story commercial building at 130 Park St. for $2.15 million from Stewart Hutchins.
The building, which houses the Bubble and Squeak laundromat on the ground floor, last sold for $275,000 in 1997. The city last appraised the building and land as worth $472,900.
That multi-million-dollar land swap came two and a half months after New Haven Land LLC spent $2.55 million buying the four adjacent parcels that make up the rest of the Park Street block between Crown Street and George Street.
The parking lot at the corner of Crown and Park.
On Nov. 4, McCloskey’s company bought as part of that deal the three-story Savin Center for Dermatology office building at 134 Park St. along with three vacant lots at 370 Crown St., 374 Crown St., and 421 George St. The city last assessed those four properties as worth a combined $1,429,200.
“We really feel that as assembled, it would make a very nice development site,” McCloskey told the Independent Thursday.
“It’s a full city block on Park with frontage north on Crown as well as south on George. It’s a nice rectangular site with a lot of street frontage and two corners.”
McCloskey said his company has built a variety of mixed-use developments over the past three decades. Those projects have included restaurants, retail spaces, hotels, and apartments.
On the side of 134 Park.
The Penn Group has not figured out exactly what it will be building at this site, he said. Whatever it is, he said, it will likely be mixed-use.
“‘We’re trying to really find the right mix of uses for this particular site.”
The lot is around 30,000 square feet, he said. Since zoning regulations for that part of downtown allow for a floor-area ratio (FAR) of 6.0, he said, the building could be as large as 180,000 square feet. “That’s a pretty good-sized project.”
Bubble and Squeak laundromat.
“There definitely seems to be a renaissance going on in New Haven,” he said about the city’s ongoing building boom. This will be the Penn Group’s first New Haven project.
“I have family that went to Yale back in the ‘80s,” he said. “That transformation that the city’s undergone is pretty remarkable.”
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180,000SF is enormous. But please change the FAR so they can build something even bigger than that, something more like 360 State.