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LAKE PLACID — When Lake Placid native Maria T. Hoffman moved back to her hometown a few years ago, she began searching for community, connection and coffee
For the first time in history, the United Auto Workers union is on strike against all three of America's unionized automakers at once.
Hoffman Auto Group marked its 100-year anniversary in 2021, having grown over the last century from a single car agency assembling and selling Model T Fords on Route 44 in New Hartford to a diversified automobile company with 10 dealerships (in East Hartford, New London, Waterbury and Avon/Simsbury), nine brands, two collision centers and its own insurance agency. About Jeffrey Hoffman’s career: Fresh out of Cornell, Jeffrey Hoffman started at his family’s privately-held business in the summer of 1972.
Jeffrey Hoffman has been through six business cycles during his career and while the pandemic may have been the most unique, it wasn’t the most challenging, he said. “The most challenging was going back 30-plus years and the major downturn stemming from the collapse of the stock market in 1987 and then from there the collapse of the real estate market,” said the 70-year-old Hoffman, who is co-chair of the well-known central Connecticut car dealership, Hoffman Auto Group. “All businesses in New England were greatly affected by it.”