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92 Lexington Ave., recently sold for $2.25M.
A Waterbury-based holding company has purchased a 50-bed nursing home and residential care facility on Lexington Avenue for $2.25 million — and a Stamford-based contractor has bought a Westville ex-convent and 10-unit apartment-complex-to-be for $865,000 — in some of the city’s latest property deals.
According to New Haven’s online land records database, on Sep. 6, Riverview Propco LLC paid $2.25 million to 92 Lexington Avenue LLC to buy the Riverview Residential Care Home, also known as the Riverview Guest Home, at 92 Lexington Ave.
That 50-bed nursing home was last sold for $900,000 in 2017. The city most recently appraised it for tax purposes as worth $1,216,500.
The new owner of the property is a holding company controlled by Erica Lesser of Waterbury. The seller of the property is a company controlled by Armand Ntchana and based out out of Alexandria, La.
A separate land record filing shows that, also on Sep. 6, Ntchana’s company granted Lesser’s company a $2.1 million mortgage loan for the property, with Chaim Lesser, also known as Charles Lesser, providing a personal guaranty to repay up to $1.3 million of that note.
Neither Lesser nor Ntchana responded to requests for comment by the publication time of this article.
A 49-year-old resident of Riverview did talk briefly with this reporter in the pouring rain on the sidewalk in front of the residential care facility on Monday afternoon. The resident, who declined to share her name or be photographed for this article, said she grew up in Bridgeport, has lived at Riverview for “a couple months,” and previously resided at an assisted care home in Meriden.
She said Riverview’s residents are “senior citizens” going through cancer and chemotherapy, and the “handicapped.” She said she falls into that latter group.
How does this residential care facility compare to others she’s lived at? They provide “more freedom here,” she said. She said the bathrooms are clean and the trash is taken out regularly.
An office worker at the complex told the Independent that the manager was not in at the moment on Monday afternoon, and promised to pass along this reporter’s contact information.
Convent-To-Apartments Property Sold For $865K
10 planned new apartments at the ex-St. Aedan's convent.
Other recent local property deals include:
• On June 21, a holding company controlled by Florjan and Gentjan Shehaj — who run a Stamford-based company called Energy Spray Systems — purchased the former St. Aedan’s church convent at 349 – 351 McKinley Ave. for $865,000 from a holding company controlled by Shcneur Katz. That property last sold for $375,000 in 2021, and the city last appraised it as worth $1,460,500.
The now-previous landlord won permission from the Board of Zoning Appeals in October 2022 to convert the former convent building into 10 new apartments. Fernando Pastor, whose architectural firm SEEDnh designed the redevelopment project and shepherded it through the needed city approvals, told the Independent that the new owners plan on following through on the 10-unit development.
“After my second client, Mr. Schneur Katz obtained Zoning and Site Plan Approvals earlier this year, he asked me to find a developer to carry out our original vision for the property and convert a vacant building into 10 residential units, sorely needed in Westville,” Pastor said.
“My good friend Florjan Shehaj shared the vision and recently purchased the building. We are now marching with clean-out, and building permits, hoping to start construction this month.”
• On May 31, Emily Al-Hua Wang and Daniel Colon-Ramos bought the Prospect Hill single-family mansion at 31 Edgehill Rd. for $1.525 million from Moeun Sun and Jason Kwan. The property last sold for $950,000 in 2020, and was last appraised by the city as worth $1,102,600.
• On May 25, a holding company controlled by East Rock lawyer Albert Annunziata purchased the 12-unit apartment building at 265 Humphrey St. for $1.475 million from a holding company controlled Jerome Krevit. The city last appraised that property as worth $977,700.
• On May 31, a holding company controlled by Tamara Zohar bought the 10-unit apartment building at 543 Woodward Ave. in the Annex for $1 million from Deborah Corso, Roseann Shore, and Alexander Sabellico. On June 1, Zohar’s company then flipped that same Woodward Avenue property for $1.125 million to a holding company controlled by Israel Rozenberg, Perets Nisilevitch, and Shneor Edelkopf. The city last appraised that property for tax purposes as worth $932,000.
• On Aug. 31, Gregory Vincient Arnold and Mary Katherine Graeff purchased the three-family house at 48 Edwards St. for $700,000 from a holding company controlled by Carol Horsford. That property last sold for $450,000 in March, and the city last appraised it as worth $518,100.
• On Aug. 31, Adrian Lawrence purchased the three-family house at 46 Elliott St. for $379,000 from a holding company controlled by Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg. The property last sold for $96,000 in 2014, and the city last appraised it as worth $261,300.
See below for more details on recent local property transactions.
New Haven land records
When driving by I often saw solitary people sitting a chair or wheel chair. I had no idea what was at the location.
It would be nice if neighborhoods reached out to the people living in such homes. Many do not have family or friends nearby.
Think about organizing a Carol sing around Christmas time.