The pandemic has battered the U.S. retail sector, driving bankruptcies and store closures to record highs.
That’s translated into some big, empty storefronts, and left real estate owners scratching their heads about how best to fill them. At two prominent Greater Hartford retail properties that are coincidentally right across the street from each other, new office space may be the desired solution.
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Marty Kenny
Brokers for the owners of the Corbin Collection shopping center in West Hartford and recently shuttered Lord & Taylor store at Westfarms mall just over the border in Farmington are working to find tenants who would repurpose tens of thousands of square feet of vacant retail space into office space.