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PeoplesBank Honored for Efforts in Sustainability

Doug Bowen

Doug Bowen says environmental-sustainability efforts are part of PeoplesBank’s commitment to the community.

When PeoplesBank built its third environmentally friendly branch office earlier this year, it strove to give customers and employees a new look and feel, as well as make a strong statement about the company’s values.
The bank looked to high-tech giant Apple for inspiration in developing its open and relaxed interior design. The property features free electric-vehicle charging stations in the parking lot; energy-efficient lighting, plumbing, heating, and cooling systems; and more outdoor green space, as well as a water-runoff system to conserve water and hydrate plants.
All of this innovation came at a cost. Constructing a sustainable building like the new branch office at 300 King St. in Northampton costs between 10% and 15% more than it would to build a conventional structure without all those environmentally friendly features.
Doug Bowen, PeoplesBank president and CEO, admits that the bank may not see a return on the added investment through energy savings for “seven to eight years from now” at the earliest, but that timetable certainly isn‘t deterring him from such endeavors.
Indeed, what interests him most is that PeoplesBank continues to be an industry leader in developing sustainable branch offices, fostering an environmentally friendly corporate culture, and investing in projects that will be energy-efficient. This is a mission that PeoplesBank staked out a couple of years after Bowen took over the leadership of the bank in 2006, and it continues to find new ways to manifest itself.
“It’s a continuation of our commitment to the community,” he explained. “We don’t have shareholders, so our one goal is to make this a great place to live, work, and raise a family. We’re taking a leadership position in sustainability. It’s the right thing to do. That’s what guides us.”
On Oct. 21, PeoplesBank was recognized by the American Bankers Assoc. for its efforts in sustainability by being given the organization’s Community Commitment Award and its first-ever Sustainable Banking Award. The ACA honored PeoplesBank for building three Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) registered branch offices, and for financing more than $60 million in green-energy projects such as wind, hydroelectric, and solar power.
Bowen and PeoplesBank Senior Vice President Sheila King-Goodwin were on hand at the ACA’s annual convention in New Orleans to accept the award. More than 7,000 banks around the country were eligible for the honor.
“It was validating, primarily,” Bowen said of winning the award. “We know that we’re taking a position on environmental sustainability that’s unique to banks, but we’re still thrilled to be recognized nationally.”
King-Goodwin added that she was “humbled and honored that a local, mutually owned community bank” received the ABA award.
“The recognition amongst our peers was astonishing,”she said. “Sustainability fits with our core values. Many banks are divesting branches. We’re growing, so we wanted to do it in an environmentally responsible way.”

Sustaining Interest

LEED-certified branch

PeoplesBank has built three LEED-certified branch buildings as part of its green efforts.

Bowen, who started working at Holyoke-based PeoplesBank 38 years ago as a teller, came up with the idea to put an emphasis on sustainability about five years ago. An environmental committee formed within the company, and eventually it was decided that, as part of its strategic plan, the bank would build energy-efficient branches as it expanded its reach across the Pioneer Valley.
“It’s a crowded marketplace,” Bowen said. “You’re trying to differentiate yourself and provide value for your customers. This is one way to stand out.”
Bank officials were starting from scratch and sought advice and counsel from the Green Roundtable, a Boston-based nonprofit that offers education, policy, and technical assistance to companies and organizations looking to construct sustainable buildings.
“The Green Roundtable helped us when we built our first sustainable branch in Springfield,” said King-Goodwin. “We worked with them for about a year. Some aspects we were already putting into our buildings, such as energy-efficient heating and cooling systems. They helped us with things like reducing paved surfaces, how to better filtrate water, and how to dispose of and recycle building materials.”
The bank’s first sustainable office opened at 1051 St. James Ave. in Springfield in 2010. The office is LEED Silver-certified and was the first green building constructed in the city, which earned PeoplesBank Springfield’s GreenSeal. The following year, the bank opened a Gold-certified LEED office at 547 Memorial Ave. in West Springfield, also the first of its kind in the community.
Several environmentally friendly features were incorporated into the construction of the Northampton branch office, which was designed by EDM, an architectural firm based in Pittsfield.
The 3,425-square-foot branch was engineered by New England Engineering Corp. of Southborough and built by Marois Construction of South Hadley, and was constructed on a former Exxon gas station site using 12% recycled materials. More than 12% of construction materials were from the region, cutting down on transportation and other costs. Roughly 95% of demolition materials from the construction site were recycled.
On a recent Monday morning, light poured through the high glass ceilings into the bank’s interior. The building uses natural light for a good portion of the day, cutting down on energy costs. The main lobby has a large-screen high-definition television, a kiosk equipped with two iPads, a coffee bar, and comfortable chairs and couches.
Bowen said the bank’s customers have made the Northampton branch an immediate success.
“After being open four weeks, we were almost at $5 million in deposits,” he said. “Our goal is to have $5 million in deposits in the first year. We feel we’ve really been welcomed by the community and that we provide a valuable service.”
Environmentally friendly policies are now ingrained in the culture at PeoplesBank, said Bowen. The nine-member environmental committee plans and coordinates events such as an annual environmental fair. The committee also started working with Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) in 2012, and as a result stages a farmers’ market that sells local food and products at its Holyoke headquarters.
The environmental committee is also devising a plan for the bank to give each employee $1,000 toward the purchase of a hybrid vehicle.
Janice Mazzallo, senior vice president for Human Resources and head of the committee, believes this commitment on behalf of the environment makes PeoplesBank an attractive place to work.
“As we’ve brought in new employees, I’ve found that they want to work for an organization that cares about the environment,” she said. “We attract like-minded people, and it makes it easy to recruit new employees.”
Banking methods are also changing at PeoplesBank, and Bowen said the bank is implementing a plan to eventually become completely paper-free.
“We’ve reduced our use of paper dramatically,” he said. “All of our board meetings are done with iPads.”
According to Bowen, customers are also attracted to the bank’s commitment to the environment. He believes being located in Western Mass., where many residents share a concern for the environment, is a plus.
“We’ve received a lot of positive feedback from customers,” he said. “Clearly there’s an appreciation of our efforts in this area.”
Over the years, PeoplesBank has helped fund environmentally friendly projects to the tune of $60 million. In 2009, the bank provided $2.5 million to Holyoke Gas & Electric to replace hydroelectric generators. In all, the institution has provided HG&E with $8.5 million in funding for hydroelectric projects.
John Majercak, director of the Center for EcoTechnology, has been working with PeoplesBank on environmental initiatives since 2009. The bank provided $25,000 to help convert the organization’s EcoBuilding Bargains into a high-efficiency building.
The store for recycled building materials and other products, located at 83 Warwick St. in Springfield, is 100 years old and needed a major overhaul. Majercak said the money helped with the installation of exterior insulated panels, an energy-efficient heating system, a new insulated roof, and solar panels.
“We’re using a lot less energy in a building that size,” he said. “We’ve seen an 88% reduction of electric and gas use in the building. It’s really energy-efficient.”
The Center for EcoTechnology and PeoplesBank have collaborated on a number of projects, including the organization’s Go Green program. PeoplesBank has been funding the program, which encourages households to help the environment through recycling, reducing waste, composting, saving energy, and using renewable energy, since it began in 2011.

Bottom Line
“If you look around the country and the world, you see larger companies doing a lot around sustainability,” Majercak told BusinessWest. “It’s much less common among smaller companies. PeoplesBank’s commitment to the environment is at a scale that puts them in a league of their own compared to other medium-sized companies.”
The bank has been in that league for some time now, and the recent honor from the American Bankers Assoc. provides more evidence that, while being ‘green’ isn’t an inexpensive proposition, as Bowen noted, it can bring a number of rewards.

Real Estate Transactions

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Departments Real Estate

The following real estate transactions (latest avail­able) were compiled by Banker & Tradesman and are published as they were received. Only transactions exceeding $115,000 are listed. Buyer and seller fields contain only the first name listed on the deed.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

BERNARDSTON

9 South St.
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $597,000
Buyer: Edward D. Dearborn
Seller: Edward D. Dearborn
Date: 10/07/13

BUCKLAND

98 Elm St.
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $140,500
Buyer: Stephen M. Wells
Seller: Tina L. Annear
Date: 10/11/13

COLRAIN

303 Adamsville Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Rachel C. Marston
Seller: Elizabeth M. Galvahni
Date: 10/16/13

63 North Green River Road
Colrain, MA 01340
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Michael B. Cole
Seller: Kate B. Marmaras LT
Date: 10/18/13

CONWAY

3120 Shelburne Falls Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Huong C. Chow
Seller: Hilma M. Raffa
Date: 10/11/13

DEERFIELD

19 Elm Circle
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Melony M. Lucas
Seller: James R. Talbot
Date: 10/18/13

67 Graves St.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $294,000
Buyer: Nathaniel J. Malloy
Seller: Linda L. Prokopy
Date: 10/18/13

3 Sugarloaf St.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Jane Trigere
Seller: Bank of America
Date: 10/18/13

ERVING

4 Wells St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Shane R. Roberts
Seller: James M. Korpita
Date: 10/11/13

GREENFIELD

30 Brookside  Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Hilma Raffa
Seller: Maynard, Don L. (Estate)
Date: 10/11/13

72 Elm St.
Greenfield, MA 01376
Amount: $132,500
Buyer: Hsien Fu Chang
Seller: George R. Marchacos
Date: 10/07/13

47 Highland  Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Cornelia A. Miller
Seller: Tracey M. Sutphin
Date: 10/16/13

22 Pleasant St.
Greenfield, MA 01376
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Michael A. Noyes
Seller: James R. Wade
Date: 10/18/13

126 Poplar St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $199,500
Buyer: Gary S. Moran
Seller: Paul N. Billings
Date: 10/17/13

LEVERETT

412 Long Plain Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $359,387
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Robert Kaufman
Date: 10/09/13

MONTAGUE

7 Bridge St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $126,000
Buyer: Seth R. Alnsworth
Seller: James W. Wright
Date: 10/15/13

15 Davis St.
Montague, MA 01301
Amount: $675,000
Buyer: Phyllis T. Boucher
Seller: Henry G. Boucher
Date: 10/07/13

11 K St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Michael Nelson
Seller: Wendy E. Redlinger
Date: 10/18/13

50 Vladish  Ave.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $185,250
Buyer: Wendy E. Kostecki
Seller: Ronald C. Murley
Date: 10/18/13

NORTHFIELD

23 Holly  Ave.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $128,900
Buyer: Ryan P. O’Connell
Seller: Andrea C. Crommett
Date: 10/18/13

73 Pine St.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: Amy L. Stratford
Seller: Douglas A. Baker
Date: 10/09/13

ORANGE

87 Prescott Lane
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $139,900
Buyer: Joseph A. Dodge
Seller: Nancy R. Kelly
Date: 10/17/13

183 Walnut Hill Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $134,000
Buyer: Pater Walsh
Seller: William S. Page
Date: 10/07/13

SHELBURNE

71 Main St.
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $333,500
Buyer: Craig N. Weatherby
Seller: Karen A. Bouquillon
Date: 10/15/13

SUNDERLAND

392 Montague Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $915,000
Buyer: William A. Saltman
Seller: R. Square Realty LLC
Date: 10/16/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

37 Bailey St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Michael L. Kunze
Seller: Dorothy M. Frenette
Date: 10/17/13

74 Liquori Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Jeffrey W. Hamer
Seller: David E. Lemieux
Date: 10/11/13

366 Main St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Joseph D. Valenti
Seller: Burke, Gerald M. (Estate)
Date: 10/07/13

366 Main St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Joseph D. Valenti
Seller: Burke, Gerald M. (Estate)
Date: 10/18/13

976 Main St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Ivan Hrytskevich
Seller: Christopher S. Scibelli
Date: 10/11/13

53 Mark Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $364,900
Buyer: Arben Ademi
Seller: Langone Realty Corp.
Date: 10/07/13

131 North West St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $165,900
Buyer: Jeffrey Hastings
Seller: FNMA
Date: 10/16/13

62 Northwood St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Richard B. Smith
Seller: Chad J. Mirabile
Date: 10/18/13

4 Pleasant Valley Road
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Hugh K. Martin
Seller: Veena Juroshek
Date: 10/09/13

140 Ridgeway Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $296,000
Buyer: John E. Nordquist
Seller: Deborah A. Burba
Date: 10/11/13

65 Spear Farm Road
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $417,000
Buyer: Romano M. Daniele
Seller: George E. Reed
Date: 10/18/13

38 Zacks Way
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $387,800
Buyer: William H. Cullen
Seller: T. Russo Construction Corp.
Date: 10/16/13

BRIMFIELD

295 Sturbridge Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $263,080
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Jeffrey A. Stark
Date: 10/15/13

CHICOPEE

93 Bay State Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $186,500
Buyer: Joshua M. Dupuis
Seller: Albert J. Adams
Date: 10/18/13

47 Beaudry  Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Kayla N. Weagle-Bruso
Seller: Steven J. Laing
Date: 10/11/13

34 Blanche St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Anthony C. Perla
Seller: Richard L. Laflamme
Date: 10/18/13

315 Columba St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Andrew M. Boryczka
Seller: John F. Boryczka
Date: 10/07/13

54 Dorrance St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Darrell E. Lyford
Seller: Constance F. Fedora
Date: 10/18/13

16 Edmund St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $149,000
Buyer: Gloria Gonzalez
Seller: Marianne S. Boyd
Date: 10/15/13

68 Factory St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Robert R. Mercer
Seller: Marie T. Appleby
Date: 10/08/13

147 Fair St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Antonio M. Santos
Seller: Maria M. Rafael
Date: 10/09/13

320 Hampden St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Amanda Latour
Seller: Raymond L. Breton
Date: 10/15/13

8 Nash St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: David E. Hajec
Seller: Hajec, Bertha I. (Estate)
Date: 10/11/13

61 New York  Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Stephen A. Pilegi
Seller: Valeriy Kuznetsov
Date: 10/18/13

11 Silvin Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $138,000
Buyer: Terry Dyer
Seller: Dorothy A. Davitt
Date: 10/11/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

73 Braeburn Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: Quintin Jordan
Seller: Moltenbrey Builders LLC
Date: 10/11/13

42 Lee St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Rameshbhai A. Patel
Seller: Michael A. Trinceri

64 Pleasant St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $153,221
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Christina L. Carlson
Date: 10/17/13

27 Saugus  Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: David Tower
Seller: Joseph A. Dascoli
Date: 10/15/13

35 Windham Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $430,000
Buyer: Joseph A. Dascoli
Seller: Christopher M. Buendo
Date: 10/15/13

55 Windham Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Majid Din
Seller: Paul A. Iellamo
Date: 10/08/13

HOLLAND

2 North Leisure Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Eric T. Mance
Seller: Craig J. Stavola
Date: 10/07/13

HOLYOKE

58 Elmwood  Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Israel Acosta
Seller: Teresa A. Pudlo
Date: 10/17/13

46 Richard Eger Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $229,900
Buyer: Arthur P. Cicerchia
Seller: N. K. Lefebvre
Date: 10/09/13

35 Ridgewood  Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Michael L. Johnson
Seller: Patrick J. Higgins
Date: 10/10/13

2 Rock Valley Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $245,000
Seller: Rodney Faille
Date: 10/15/13

LONGMEADOW

15 Belleclaire  Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Elizabeth M. Morgan
Seller: Stuart G. Lempke
Date: 10/18/13

225 Blueberry Hill Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $510,000
Buyer: Joseph H. Vandeventer
Seller: Amy J. Wiatrowski
Date: 10/10/13

179 Cambridge Circle
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Jeffrey E. Sullivan
Seller: Sandra J. Gauthier
Date: 10/15/13

38 Fernleaf  Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Lauren Lanza
Seller: John M. Bowen
Date: 10/09/13

38 Hazelwood  Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Neil A. Daboul
Seller: Paul S. Fish
Date: 10/16/13

44 Homestead Blvd.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $206,000
Buyer: Linda L. Lasorsa
Seller: Aimee S. Bareiss
Date: 10/11/13

85 Maple Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $267,500
Buyer: Mack A. Lynch
Seller: Denise J. Smith
Date: 10/09/13

10 South Park Place
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: David Deluca
Seller: Elizabeth Robinson
Date: 10/08/13

LUDLOW

145 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $274,900
Buyer: Richard Z. Budzyna
Seller: Florinda Dias
Date: 10/18/13

1158 East St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Pedro P. Pereira
Seller: Jeffrey Rolo
Date: 10/15/13

58 King St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Marc J. Dias
Seller: Paul J. Adzima
Date: 10/07/13

182 Lakeview  Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $117,500
Buyer: Maria A. Azevedo
Seller: Mitchell M. Mazur
Date: 10/16/13

146 Oak Knoll Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $211,500
Buyer: Matthew R. Niles
Seller: Lorraine Nutting
Date: 10/08/13

53 Parker Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Jaime Goncalves
Seller: Charlotte G. Schnur
Date: 10/17/13

Rosewood Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Kevin F. Bradley
Seller: Rosewood Meadows Inc.
Date: 10/18/13

Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Seth M. Beal
Seller: Villeneuve, Michelle S. (Estate)
Date: 10/17/13

MONSON

21 Bunyan Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $127,789
Buyer: USA VA
Seller: Pamela J. Manning
Date: 10/07/13

24 Robbins Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $214,014
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Robert J. St.John
Date: 10/17/13

PALMER

4253 Church St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $166,500
Buyer: Neal Patel
Seller: US Bank NA
Date: 10/09/13

12 Coache St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $119,900
Buyer: Louise M. Davis
Seller: Country Bank For Savings
Date: 10/17/13

23 King St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: David L. Sweetman
Seller: David L. Sweetman
Date: 10/18/13

1569 North Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $1,292,793
Buyer: Colonial Pacific Leasing
Seller: JBL RT
Date: 10/09/13

213 Old Warren Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $288,000
Buyer: Jessica Moran-Desautels
Seller: Theo Whitaker
Date: 10/11/13

SPRINGFIELD

50 Albee St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Ashley A. Nolette
Seller: Francis M. Merrigan
Date: 10/16/13

180 Balboa Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $142,796
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank NA
Seller: Francisco Torres
Date: 10/16/13

14 Barrington Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $222,200
Buyer: Sean O. Hall
Seller: Emeka R. Nwahiwe
Date: 10/07/13

159 Belvidere St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $129,000
Buyer: Brenda Diaz
Seller: Hugh M. Goldrick
Date: 10/11/13

66 Benz St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $144,500
Buyer: Hanh Chanh
Seller: Sara Ashodian
Date: 10/07/13

125 Cherokee Dr.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $152,577
Buyer: Clyde Newson
Seller: David L. Bienvenue
Date: 10/17/13

229 East St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: William Soto
Seller: Mary J. Dziedzic
Date: 10/11/13

257 Ellendale Circle
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $183,500
Buyer: Paul J. Mercieri
Seller: Michelle T. Scecina
Date: 10/10/13

120 Entrybrook Dr.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: Jeffrey Schneider
Seller: Malcolm R. Schneider
Date: 10/15/13

122 Forest Hills Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $223,000
Buyer: Juan F. Latorre
Seller: Eli S. Santana
Date: 10/09/13

39 Kenwood Park
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $136,000
Buyer: Estervina Melendez
Seller: Omega 3 LLC
Date: 10/09/13

27 Lakevilla  Ave.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Heather M. Pietras-Gladu
Seller: Timothy E. Flynn
Date: 10/11/13

68 Margaret St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $1,770,000
Buyer: JTCB Properties LP
Seller: Colstar Partners LLC
Date: 10/16/13

251 Morton St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $180,151
Buyer: Beneficial MA Inc.
Seller: Latorya B. Adams
Date: 10/07/13

11 Riverview Terrace
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $156,000
Buyer: Michael F. Downey FT
Seller: Cecile M. Roche
Date: 10/18/13

151 Starling Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Tatsiana K. Danilovich
Seller: Jennifer Smith
Date: 10/18/13

441 Trafton Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: Carl W. Reiner
Seller: Charles Marks
Date: 10/15/13

93 West Canton Circle
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $143,000
Buyer: Holly A. Paquette
Seller: Mary L. Metivier
Date: 10/18/13

24 Wait St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Eliszer Soto
Seller: Terri L. Casiano
Date: 10/18/13

55 Westbrook Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Richard Goodreau
Seller: Ryan M. St.Germain
Date: 10/18/13

15 Weymouth St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Margaret M. Amore
Seller: Edward W. Moran
Date: 10/18/13

27 Weymouth St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Michele V. Papageorge
Seller: Peppino M. Maruca
Date: 10/18/13

25 Wing St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $414,000
Buyer: Carol J. Samuda
Seller: Phuong H. Nguyen
Date: 10/18/13

SOUTHWICK

201 Klaus Anderson Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $324,500
Buyer: Wasserman Holdings LLC
Seller: Daniel M. O’Neill
Date: 10/11/13

13 Point Grove Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: David Y. Kirpichev
Seller: Peter C. Vanasse
Date: 10/16/13

WESTFIELD

40 Bristol St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $163,132
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Monica A. Rose
Date: 10/15/13

194 Dry Bridge Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: City Of Westfield
Seller: Arthur P. Cicerchia
Date: 10/09/13

41 Franklin St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Franklin Syed Sons Inc
Seller: Power Test Realty Co. LP
Date: 10/17/13

3 Michael Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Yuriy Koval
Seller: Abhishake Raina
Date: 10/07/13

115 Putnam Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Vitali Besedin
Seller: Mateychuk, Helen I. (Estate)
Date: 10/10/13

8 Sadie Ln
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $202,500
Buyer: Bobby J. Bertone
Seller: Gary E. Speanburg
Date: 10/18/13

75 Zephyr Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Carlie A. Green
Seller: Hooben, Jane (Estate)
Date: 10/07/13

WILBRAHAM

16 Briar Cliff Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $123,000
Buyer: Andrew J. Coyne
Seller: Leonard Viscito
Date: 10/11/13

Bridge St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Ronald N. Rauscher
Seller: Nelson, Constance M. (Estate)
Date: 10/18/13

27 Pomeroy St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $233,000
Buyer: Jeffrey D. Woodman
Seller: Tinkbuzz LLC
Date: 10/18/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

30 Elmdale St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Guy Lariviere
Seller: Max S. Construction LLC
Date: 10/11/13

102 Garden St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $144,000
Buyer: Tom V. Hguyen
Seller: Douglas M. Henrichon
Date: 10/11/13

90 Laurence Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Michael W. Matroni
Seller: Lynn Lafrance
Date: 10/18/13

148 Lower Beverly Hills
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Joseph P. Saimeri
Seller: Joyce C. Saimeri
Date: 10/09/13

346 Morton St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $186,500
Buyer: Feodor Eni
Seller: Bodzioch, Ronald S. (Estate)
Date: 10/18/13

28 Warren St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Dominic Constanzi
Seller: Beverly Cloutier
Date: 10/08/13

2146 Westfield St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $249,000
Buyer: Richard F. Seidell
Seller: Alice D. Gamelli
Date: 10/11/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

Bay Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $119,500
Buyer: Black Bear NT
Seller: Morton G. Harmatz
Date: 10/18/13

887 Belchertown Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $115,772
Buyer: Lesley A. Pinero
Seller: Pioneer Valley Habitat for Humanity
Date: 10/10/13

50 Cottage St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $308,000
Buyer: Bridget Dahill
Seller: Jeffrey K. Peski
Date: 10/18/13

46 Rosemary Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Gabriel H. Reif
Seller: Pamela S. Dejackome
Date: 10/18/13

1522 South East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $347,500
Buyer: Stephen J. Cavanagh
Seller: Courtney P. Gordon
Date: 10/15/13

172 State St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Joshua Lewis
Seller: Caroline G. Arnold
Date: 10/08/13

BELCHERTOWN

191 East St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Ronald Toelken
Seller: Heather N. Palmateer
Date: 10/18/13

211 East St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Michael J. Matilainen
Seller: William P. Larner
Date: 10/18/13

21 Nathanial Way
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $344,000
Buyer: Patrick J. Mignault
Seller: Richard R. Kump
Date: 10/11/13

191 North St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $810,000
Buyer: Charles E. Molnar
Seller: Henry E. Whitlock
Date: 10/15/13

10 Old Farm Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Elizabeth Dudek
Seller: Nancy G. Croke

54 Pine St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Nicholas Southwick-Hall
Seller: Stephen Gharabegian
Date: 10/09/13

State St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: MC State LLC
Seller: Monson Savings Bank
Date: 10/18/13

EASTHAMPTON

14 Berkeley St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Jeffrey A. Lavallee
Seller: Gerald O. Ethier
Date: 10/08/13

13 Exeter St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $227,024
Buyer: Provident Fund Assocs. LP
Seller: Robert F. Herman
Date: 10/08/13

45 Franklin St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Lucretia A. Knapp
Seller: Strong  Ave.LLC
Date: 10/10/13

119 Holyoke St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Austin C. Rogers
Seller: K&A LLC
Date: 10/08/13

78 Plain St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Stephanie A. Subocz
Seller: Margaret J. Cernak
Date: 10/16/13

86 Williston  Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $206,000
Buyer: Joanna B. Maxey
Seller: FNMA
Date: 10/11/13

GOSHEN

46 Pond Hill Road
Goshen, MA 01096
Amount: $277,500
Buyer: Howard J. Parad RET
Seller: Lannon, Roger W. (Estate)
Date: 10/10/13

GRANBY

134 Batchelor St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $225,500
Buyer: Daniel M. Rheaume
Seller: Laramee, Richard J. (Estate)
Date: 10/07/13

HADLEY

4 Cemetery Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $318,000
Buyer: Melissa Gauthier
Seller: Andrea M. Stanley
Date: 10/07/13

HUNTINGTON

2 Knightville Dam Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $183,000
Buyer: Aaren D. Hawley
Seller: Michael J. Kent
Date: 10/18/13

NORTHAMPTON

1 Amber Lane
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Emily Withenbury
Seller: W. M. Ryan
Date: 10/17/13

4 Beaver Brook Loop
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $145,500
Buyer: Kathleen A. Hutchins
Seller: Beaver Brook NT
Date: 10/09/13

150 Drury Lane
Northampton, MA 01027
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Alec Gross
Seller: USA HUD
Date: 10/15/13

23 Fair St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $372,045
Buyer: Deepika B. Shukla
Seller: Jeremy D. Ober
Date: 10/11/13

32 Gleason Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $285,250
Buyer: Marcia L. Wolff
Seller: Marti Newkirk
Date: 10/11/13

64 Hatfield St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Nelly Carmona
Seller: Kenneth C. Lebeau
Date: 10/11/13

33 Hawley St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $1,500,000
Buyer: Northampton Community for Arts
Seller: Hawley Street Funding TR
Date: 10/16/13

12 Hinckley St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Glenn Alper
Seller: Constantine, Stephen (Estate)
Date: 10/17/13

175 Jackson St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $257,500
Buyer: Karen S. Laverdiere
Seller: Alan Parlee
Date: 10/16/13

51 Lincoln  Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Chadd P. Meerbergen
Seller: James E. McKeever
Date: 10/07/13

331 Riverside Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: C. M. Teghtsoonian
Seller: James S. Page
Date: 10/18/13

462 Rocky Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Brian J. Crepeau
Seller: Scott D. Bertrand
Date: 10/08/13

SOUTH HADLEY

19 Charon Terrace
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $254,000
Buyer: Roy J. Sabourin
Seller: Sally J. Lemaire
Date: 10/15/13

617 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $183,000
Buyer: Kari L. Scytkowski
Seller: Roy J. Sabourin
Date: 10/15/13

331 Hadley St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $126,000
Buyer: CIL Realty Of MA Inc.
Seller: Kenneth E. Guilbailt
Date: 10/11/13

308 North Main St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Stephen B. Jaszek
Seller: Dennis F.McLain
Date: 10/16/13

2 Riverlodge Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Amanda C. Stutman
Seller: Patrick J. Spring
Date: 10/11/13

25 Washington  Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Eric A. Hernandez
Seller: Lauren E. Cook
Date: 10/11/13

SOUTHAMPTON

18 Bissonnette Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Kenneth P. Brown
Seller: Steven Bennett
Date: 10/16/13

307 College Hwy.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $258,000
Buyer: Gregory L. Bennett
Seller: Donna M. Coleman
Date: 10/18/13

103 Glendale Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Michael Yan
Seller: Paul J. Martin
Date: 10/15/13

8 Jonathan Judd Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Pamela S. Dejackome
Seller: Ashtons Acquisitions LLC
Date: 10/18/13

17 Rattle Hill Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Robert Fondakowski
Seller: Tomothy R. Wakeling

92 Russellville Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Natalya Deven
Seller: Dorothy Kirby
Date: 10/11/13

4 Sara Lane
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: David Garstka Builders LLC
Date: 10/17/13

WARE

197 Fisherdick Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Cory J. Belczyk
Seller: Matthew Martin
Date: 10/10/13

WESTHAMPTON

134 Easthampton Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Thomas Martin
Seller: Clapp, Howard E. (Estate)
Date: 10/15/13

WILLIAMSBURG

5 Kellogg Road
Williamsburg, MA 01039
Amount: $144,000
Buyer: Bryan T. Lashway
Seller: Poverty Mountain LLP
Date: 10/07/13

5 Pine St.
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Karen M. Theiling
Seller: Accent Bldg. & Remodelling LLC
Date: 10/11/13

57 South Main St.
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $256,000
Buyer: Poverty Mountain LLP
Seller: Bryan T. Lashway
Date: 10/07/13

Doing Business as Certificates

By
DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of and November 2013.

AGAWAM

Ashford & Son
82 Stony Hill Road
Todd Ashford

Anderson Construction
63 Stewart Lane
Neil Anderson

Home Care Services
60 Walnut St.
Katherine Kennedy

Nataliya European Style Café
339 N. Westfield St.
Nataliya Belozerova

Personal Care Life Skills
270 Main St.
Donna Wagner

AMHERST

Amherst Live
125 Red Gate Lane
Oliver Broudy

Songs from Around the Corner & Stories from Around the World
30 Hickory Lane
Jon Ploof

The Loose Goose Café
233 North Pleasant St.
J.L. Gourmet Inc.

CHICOPEE

Building 54 Airsoft Arena
42 Buckly Boulevard
Robert Marco

Mya’s Restaurant
108 West St.
Aisha Cardona

Shell Food Mart
197 Grove St.
Sanjay Patel

HOLYOKE

CVS Pharmacy
250 Whiting Farm Road
Linda M. Cimbron

Heritage Transport
49 Laurel St.
Ronald Charelte

Luna Designs
402 Hillside Dr.
Laura Pantoja

Pro Spine Rehab
199 High St.
Michael Langlitz

The White Rose
284 High St.
Betty Kaplowitz

Whitley’s Fitness Center
384 High St.
Dwayne Whitley

NORTHAMPTON

Banana Watercolor
87 Water St.
Chris Gentes

Mill River Films
8 Nonotuck St.
Stan Freeman

Nohosoft
101 North Maple St.
Derek Peren

Pure Current Therapeutics & Lifestyle Alignment
72 Center St.
Alexa Williamson

Sharku Editing
12 Mary Jane Lane
Christine Craig

Snokon
119 Nonotuck St.
Andrew Wollner

PALMER

Alternative Marketing Concepts
12 Vernon St.
Walter Haggerty

Laub & Laub Handyman Services
2056 Palmer Road
Eric Laub

SPRINGFIELD

Angel’s Auto Repair
160 Magazine St.
Angel L. Alicea

Artifact, LLC
270 Albany St.
Jake T. Mazar

Awan Brothers
954 State St.
Wajid Mahmood

Boston Community Medical
3550 Main St.
Mary Glover

Café du Jour
1365 Main St.
Khaled M. Saleh

Calligraphy by Hatter
238 Maple St.
Hatter George

Cameron Construction
128 Tavistock St.
Brian M. Liquore

Dream Flower Variety
216 Hancock St.
Esmie Spalding

Dreamland Imports, LLC
1655 Boston Road
Israel Burgos, Jr.

E & C Handyman Service
87 Manhattan St.
Edgar H. Wilcox

Fight to Live
14 Embury St.
James E. Dixon

Graham Property Management
250 Albany St.
David D. Graham

Grez Automotive
604 Boston Road
Walter Joseph

Griffin Staffing Network
1145 Main St.
Nicole Griffin

Harmony Way
70 Mansfield St.
Michelle Croze

Hess
80 St. James Blvd.
David A. Klavonsvp

JB Auto Sales, LLC
48 Winter St.
William J. Gilligan

WESTFIELD

Giovanni’s
69 Franklin St.
Samuel Kim

The Seat Weaver
71 Elm St.
Alice Flyte

Yelena’s Baked Goods
94 George St.
Yelena Vdovichenko

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Advanced Printing & Copy
229 Memorial Ave.
Markath, Inc.

Fektion Nation
715 Main St.
Gabriel Martinez

KJ Woodworking
43 Skyline Dr.
Kevin J. Kras

Paul’s Roofing and Repair
107 Norman St.
Paul J. Morin

Wright Insurance Agency
1111 Elm St.
Lula Wright

Incorporations

By
Departments Incorporations

The following business incorporations were recorded in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties and are the latest available. They are listed by community.

AGAWAM

Real Juice Vending Inc., 53 Beekman Dr., Agawam, MA 01001. Roman Radkovets, same. Freshly squeezed juice vending machines.

BELCHERTOWN

H&D Trade Inc., 55 North Main St., #41, Belchertown, MA 01007. Zhuangping Yi, 96 Tianyao Xincun, Shanghai, SH, 200000. Video conferencing and international trade.

CHICOPEE

VB Corporation, 64 Emmett St., Chicopee, MA 01020. Volodymyr Boyko, same. Construction and sales.

FLORENCE

Phallacies Inc., 394 Spring St., Florence, MA 01062. Russell Bradbury-Carlin, 11 Stage Road, Deerfield, MA 01373. Health education, leadership development, and violence prevention for men via innovative theater, dialogue, and direct action.

GREENFIELD

Mr. Absolute Medical Resources Inc., 126 Deerfield St., Greenfield, MA 01301. Michael Ruggeri, same. Provide programs and services benefiting the public.

HADLEY

Shiki Asian Fusion, 48 Russell St., Hadley, MA 01035. Xinzhu Yang, same. Food service.

HOLYOKE

JB Engineering and Consulting Inc., 14 Ross Road, Holyoke, MA 01040. Daniel Cavanaugh, same. Consulting services.

LONGMEADOW

Critical Connections Inc.,  468 Inverness Lane, Longmeadow, MA 01106, Mehlaqa Samdani, same. Build resilient communities through analysis and outreach.

LUDLOW

Wintertreeproductions Inc., 31 Birch St., Ludlow, MA 01056. Ophelia West-Laurtes, same. Self-published literature marketing.

NORTHAMPTON

Last Call Media Inc., 244 Main St., Northampton, MA 01060. Kelly Albrecht, 15 Cowles Lane, Amherst, MA 01002. Internet and web services.

SPRIINGFIELD

Springfield Youth Christian Coalition Inc., 888 Sumner Ave., Springfield, MA 01118. Shoshana Porter, 430 Island Pond Road, Springfield, MA 01118. Conduct non-partisan research, education, and informational activities to increase public awareness of juvenile delinquency.

The Able Place Inc., 184 Bowdoin St., Springfield, MA 01109. Elaine Awand, same. Men’s halfway house with educational component.

WESTFIELD

K’s Japanese Restaurant, 318 East Main St., Westfield, MA 01085. Shong Chen, same. Restaurant.

Court Dockets

By
Court Dockets Departments

The following is a compilation of recent lawsuits involving area businesses and organizations. These are strictly allegations that have yet to be proven in a court of law. Readers are advised to contact the parties listed, or the court, for more information concerning the individual claims.

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Brixmor/IA Points West SC, LLC v. PCX Corp. and Steven Lee a/k/a Soo Bong Lee
Allegation: Breach of contract relating to lease for commercial property: $28,766.71
Filed: 9/26/13

Geeleher Enterprises Inc. v. RIV Construction Group and Home Depot, LLC
Allegation: Non-payment of construction services rendered: $62,242.93
Filed: 10/4/13

U-Name It Self Storage, LLC v. Vertrolysis, LLC
Allegation: Breach of commercial lease for failure to pay rent: $36,476.93
Filed: 9/26/13

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT
Nancy and Robert Carrier v. Circle B Inc. and Phelan Engineering, LLC
Allegation: Improper construction design and failure to comply with building codes: $166,527.54
Filed: 10/4/13

NORTHAMPTON DISTRICT COURT
Alexander and Fay Gaspari v. TommyCar Corp. d/b/a Country Nissan
Allegation: Breach of contract for failure to provide remote truck release and failure to compensate: $1,500.
Filed: 9/18/13

PeoplesBank v. Ryder Funeral Home
Allegation: Money owed on note and guaranties: $98,866.07
Filed: 9/5/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Hale Trailer Brake & Wheel Inc. v. MEF Transportation, LLC
Allegation: Non-payment of rental equipment: $8,434.23
Filed: 9/23/13

J & E Roof Systems v. Craig McCarthy d/b/a Quality Renovations
Allegation:  Failure to pay and breach of construction agreement: $5,502
Filed: 10/3/13

Rose M. Groce v. F.L. Roberts & Co. Inc.
Allegation: Negligent maintenance of property causing slip and fall: $24,999.99
Filed: 10/7/13

Opinion

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Opinion
Some Lessons from Worcester

By PAUL McMORROW
Worcester’s downtown withered when city officials staked the neighborhood’s future on a silver-bullet development that missed its mark badly. Now the city is redeveloping downtown, albeit at a pace that seems impossibly slow.
But impatience misses two key points. The massive effort is advancing, even in the face of a weak real-estate market, and it’s advancing in the right direction. Worcester, once bedeviled by gimmicky real-estate developments, is sticking to its plan and refusing to take shortcuts. Given the downtown neighborhood’s history, that’s the most important development of all.
When developers broke ground on Worcester’s CitySquare project three years ago, the development was the largest post-urban-renewal downtown redevelopment effort in Massachusetts history. The 20-acre, $565 million project involves demolishing a massive failed downtown mall, laying out a new street network, and constructing millions of square feet of offices, retail storefronts, and residential space. Worcester is trying to move beyond its failed downtown mall by creating something that is, in both physical form and philosophy, the antithesis of an urban shopping mall.
Scores of American cities suffered from disinvestment and population loss in the 1960s and 1970s. Worcester wasn’t alone in throwing an expensive mega-project at its case of urban rot. But its results were especially disastrous. The city saw scores of shoppers abandoning downtown storefronts for suburban shopping malls, so it decided to drop a shopping mall in the middle of its downtown, sandwiched between City Hall and the train station.
The mall was an unmitigated disaster. It failed twice. Those failures became magnified because Worcester had bulldozed a huge swath of its downtown and erased key roads to accommodate the mall. The city had cut its downtown in two for a gimmick that didn’t even work.
The city is currently working on rebuilding a downtown that looks and functions like one. It’s a turnaround plan that celebrates the downtown, instead of suburbanizing it. It recognizes that good downtowns start with people, and once downtowns fill with people, business happens organically.
CitySquare began with addition by subtraction. Construction crews demolished the old mall and much of the garage parking connected to it. They leveled 80,000 tons of concrete and rebuilt the street grid the mall had erased. The project developer, Leggat McCall Properties, built and opened a pair of commercial buildings, including a new headquarters for the insurance company Unum, in the midst of a poor development market.
Plenty of work remains. More than 1.5 million square feet of buildings remain on the drawing boards. The city needs every one of them to create a downtown that hums with life. Worcester’s failed mall showed that cities can’t wish vibrant downtowns into existence. People need real reasons for coming, and staying, downtown. That’s why the residential component of Worcester’s CitySquare plan looms large — it shows the city understands the importance of incremental change.
CitySquare needs around-the-clock residents to anchor Worcester’s new downtown, not just office workers who punch the clock before driving home. It needs a critical mass of bodies who are vested in the neighborhood and who will attract the restaurants and coffee shops that will draw new visitors to the area, which will, in turn, allow the entire district to succeed. This critical mass needs to be large.
The city needs sizeable apartment and condominium complexes to deliver the number of bodies that will anchor the rest of the neighborhood. Large residential buildings are also very difficult to build in Worcester because they cost more to build than they’d generate in rent. Cheaper wood-frame apartments could have gone up a year or two ago, but these low-slung buildings wouldn’t generate anywhere close to the kind of residential density the CitySquare vision hinges on. It’s a sign that the city gets it, that it’s avoiding shortcuts and holding out for the kind of density it needs to create a downtown that isn’t just full of buildings, but actually feels alive.

Paul McMorrow is an associate editor at Commonwealth Magazine.

Calculated Decisions

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Accounting and Tax Planning Sections
Effective Planning Now Can Lower Your Tax Burden

Kristina Drzal-Houghton

Kristina Drzal-Houghton

Tax planning is inherently complex, with the most powerful tax strategies often relying as much on clairvoyance as they do on calculations.
As 2013 begins to wind down, the need for a crystal ball lessens, and the ability to strategize with more certainty is upon us. This developing certainty provides opportunities for individuals and businesses to manage tax liabilities through tax-planning techniques.
Year-end tax planning has always been arduous, but early 2013 legislation complicated the tax structure by layering in new tax brackets and income buckets, bringing a multi-dimensional complication to tax planning this year.
In this article we focus on tax-planning techniques that can be executed during the remainder of 2013, but specific facts and circumstances may open up other opportunities or limit some of the tactics discussed.
Tax Strategies for Business Owners
Business equipment. Significant tax benefits remain available for business equipment purchases during 2013. A 50% bonus depreciation deduction is available for qualified property placed in service during 2013. The deduction is set to expire for 2014. To qualify for bonus depreciation, equipment must be new and placed in service by year-end.
Section 179 expensing rules provide full expensing for up to $500,000 of qualifying property placed in service during 2013. However, the full deduction is available only if the total amount of qualifying property placed in service in 2013 does not exceed $2 million. The Section 179 deduction limit is scheduled to be drastically reduced in 2014.
• Planning point: If you are planning to purchase a significant amount of machinery and equipment for your business in the next year or two, consider accelerating your order so the assets are delivered and placed into service by Dec. 31, 2013. To take full advantage of the Section 179 deduction, monitor total purchases to prevent its phaseout.
Deduction for qualified production activities income. Taxpayers can claim a deduction, subject to limits, for 9% of the lesser of (1) the taxpayer’s ‘qualified production activities income’ for the tax year (i.e., net income from U.S. manufacturing, production, or extraction activities; U.S. film production; U.S. construction activities; and U.S. engineering and architectural services), or (2) the taxpayer’s taxable income for that tax year, before taking this deduction into account. This deduction generally has the effect of a reduction in the taxpayer’s marginal rate and, thus, should be taken into account when making decisions regarding income-shifting strategies.
Net operating losses and debt-cancellation income. A business with a loss this year may be able to use that loss to generate cash in the form of a quick net operating loss carry-back refund. This type of refund may be of particular value to a financially troubled business that needs a fast cash transfusion to keep going.
There also are a number of different kinds of debt-cancellation or debt-reduction transactions that may generate taxable income in 2013 if not deferred until 2014.
Retirement Plans. Starting a small-business retirement-savings plan is easier than you think and offers significant tax advantages. Employer contributions are deductible from the employer’s income, employee contributions are not taxed until distributed to the employee, and investments in the program grow tax-deferred. Further, the tax law offers a small incentive of a $500-per-year tax credit for the first three years of a new SEP, SIMPLE, or other retirement plan to cover the initial setup expenses for certain small employers.

Individual Tax-rate Management
In prior years, the main concern was that, if you reduced your regular income tax too far, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) would step in to appropriate your hard-earned tax savings. There are now additional dynamics to consider, when certain thresholds are exceeded, in the form of a 3.8% net-investment-income (NII) tax levied on investment income, a 0.9% Medicare payroll tax levied on wages and self-employment earnings, and a multi-tiered, long-term capital-gains tax-rate structure.
These new taxes, beginning in 2013, apply when adjusted gross income exceeds certain thresholds ranging from $200,000 for single filers to $250,000 for married taxpayers. For these thresholds and most others mentioned in this article, married filing separate uses one-half the married threshold.
Additionally, the 39.6% tax bracket returns this year after a long hiatus for taxpayers above thresholds ranging from $400,000 of taxable income for single filers to $450,000 for married filers.
Net investment income tax. The 3.8% NII tax now applies to most investment income. For individuals, the amount subject to the tax is the lesser of (1) the net investment income; or (2) the excess of modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) over the applicable threshold amount.
NII includes dividends, rents, interest, passive-activity income, capital gains, annuities, and royalties. Passive pass-through income will be subject to this new tax, but non-passive will not. Self-employment income, income from an active trade or business, and portions of the gain on the sale of an active interest in a partnership or S corporation with investment assets, as well as IRA or qualified plan distributions, are not subject to the NII tax.
• Planning point: Weighing a decision about selling marketable securities to meet current cash needs? Consider using margin debt for replacement securities. The interest on the debt will be deductible, subject to the investment-interest limitation, which could reduce your NII for purposes of the new tax.
• Planning point: To the extent your NII is income from a passive activity, increasing your material participation in the activity between now and the end of the year can reduce the amount of income subject to the NII tax. Proceed with caution, though, because a change in participation level may impact other short- and long-term tax obligations.
• Planning point: As you near the applicable threshold, consider revising the timing of distributions from retirement plans to manage your net investment income. While the distributions themselves are not NII, the distributions increase your MAGI, which could subject more of your investment income to the NII tax.
Increased maximum tax rates on long-term capital gains. While avoiding or deferring tax may be your primary goal, to the extent there is income to report, the income of choice is long-term capital gain income thanks to the favorable tax rates available. The available rates differ depending on the taxpayer’s tax bracket.
Taxpayers in the 39.6% bracket will now pay a 20% long-term capital gains and qualified dividends rate. Additionally, those above the previously noted thresholds will pay the 3.8% tax in addition to the increased capital-gains rate.
• Planning point: The netting rules provide an opportunity to manage the net gain or loss subject to taxation, making it prudent to review your investment gains and losses before the close of year to determine whether additional transactions prior to year-end may improve your tax outlook.
Recognition of same-sex marriage for federal tax purposes. Beginning in 2013, legally married same-sex couples must file a joint or married-filing-separately return. The rules do not extend to cover domestic partnerships. The ruling is retroactive, opening up a refund opportunity in certain circumstances for those who were previously prohibited from joint filing. Amended returns may be, but are not required to be, filed for tax years still open by statute of limitations.

Year-end Timing Strategies
Managing the alternative minimum tax. The AMT applies when income, as adjusted for certain preference items, exceeds certain exemptions, but the rate applied to that income falls below the AMT rate, essentially acting as a tax-leveling mechanism. Residents of states with high income and property taxes, like Connecticut and Massachusetts, are more likely to be subject to the AMT because these state taxes are not deductible when computing AMT income.
The AMT exemptions are subject to phaseouts when AMT income exceeds $115,400 for single filers and $153,900 for married joint filers.
Delaying or prepaying expenses. As a cash-method taxpayer, you can deduct expenses when you pay them or charge them to your credit card. Payment by credit card is considered paid in the year the charge is incurred. Expenses that are commonly prepaid in connection with year-end tax planning include:
Charitable contributions. A tax deduction is available for cash contributions to qualified charities of up to 50% of adjusted gross income (AGI) and up to 30% (20% for gifts to private operating foundations) of your AGI for charitable gifts of appreciated property.
• Planning point: Consider contributing appreciated securities that you have held for more than one year. Usually, you will receive a charitable deduction for the full value of the securities, while avoiding the capital-gains tax that would be incurred upon sale of the securities.
State and local income taxes. Consider prepaying any state and local income taxes normally due on Jan. 15, 2014, or with the filing of the return if you do not expect to be subject to the AMT.
• Planning Point: If you expect to owe state and/or local income tax when you file your return for 2013, consider paying that amount before Dec. 31, 2013. Although you relinquish your cash in advance, the benefit from accelerating the tax deduction and lowering your current federal income tax could be significant. It is particularly powerful if the deduction could be lost through the AMT in 2014. Just be careful that your prepayment does not make you subject to AMT in 2013.
Real-estate taxes. Like state and local income taxes, real-estate tax levies due early in 2014 can often be prepaid in 2013. For real-estate taxes on your residence or other personal real estate, just be mindful of the AMT in both years. Real-estate tax on rental property is deductible whether or not you are subject to AMT, and it can be safely prepaid.
Mortgage interest. There are limits on your ability to deduct prepaid interest. However, to the extent your January mortgage payment reflects interest accrued as of Dec. 31, 2013, a payment prior to year-end will secure the interest deduction in 2013.
Other itemized deductions. Miscellaneous itemized deductions, like many deductions, are deductible only if you itemize your deductions and are not subject to AMT. Where miscellaneous itemized deductions differ is with the requirement that the total deductions exceed 2% of your AGI to be deductible.
Itemized deduction phaseout. After a three-year hiatus, 2013 marks the return of the phaseout of certain itemized deductions for higher-income taxpayers. For affected taxpayers, itemized deductions are reduced by 3% of the amount by which AGI exceeds thresholds ranging from $250,000 for a single filer to $300,000 for married joint filers.
However, deductions for medical expenses, investment interest, casualty and theft losses, and gambling losses are not subject to the limitation. Taxpayers cannot lose more than 80% of the itemized deductions subject to the phaseout.
Exemption phaseout. A personal exemption is generally available for you, your spouse if you are married and file a joint return, and each dependent (a qualifying child or qualifying relative who meets certain tests). In 2013, the exemption amount is $3,900, subject to a reinstated phaseout of the exemption for higher-income taxpayers. These phaseout thresholds begin at the same AGI limits discussed for itemized deductions above.
Retirement-plan distributions. If you are over age 59½ and your 2013 income is unusually low, consider taking a taxable distribution from your retirement plan, even if it is not required, to use the unusually low tax rate for the period. More powerful still, consider converting the funds to a Roth account.
• Planning point: If you expect to be in a higher tax bracket in the future, consider converting your traditional IRA into a Roth IRA during your lower-income years. You will be paying taxes early, but future appreciation of the assets in your account may escape income taxes entirely.
IRA distributions to charity. If you are over age 70½, you can make a tax-free distribution of up to $100,000 from your IRA to a qualified charity before Dec. 31, 2013. Under current law, this opportunity will not be available for 2014.
Note that this opportunity is doubly powerful beginning in 2013. In addition to prior tax benefits, now the IRA is not included in your MAGI, and thus this strategy may reduce exposure to the new 3.8% NII tax.
Worthless securities and bad debts. Both worthless securities and bad debts could give rise to capital losses. Since no transaction generally alerts you to this deduction, you should review your portfolio carefully.
• Planning point: If you own securities that have become worthless or made loans that have become uncollectible, ensure that the losses are deductible in the current year by obtaining substantive documentation to support the deduction.
Contributing to a retirement plan. You may be able to reduce your taxes by contributing to a retirement plan. If your employer sponsors a retirement plan, such as a 401(k), 403(b), or SIMPLE plan, your contributions avoid current taxation, as will any investment earnings until you begin receiving distributions from the plan. Some plans allow you to make after-tax Roth contributions, which will not reduce your current income, but you will generally have no tax to pay when those amounts, plus any associated earnings, are withdrawn in future years.
You and your spouse must have earned income to contribute to either a traditional or a Roth IRA. Only taxpayers with modified AGI below certain thresholds are permitted to contribute to a Roth IRA. If a workplace retirement plan covers you or your spouse, modified AGI also controls your ability to deduct your contribution to a traditional IRA. There is no AGI limit on your or your spouse’s deduction if you are not covered by an employer plan. If your modified AGI falls within the phaseout range, a partial contribution/deduction is still allowed.
• Planning point: If you would like to contribute to a Roth IRA, but your income exceeds the threshold, consider contributing to a traditional IRA for 2013, and convert the IRA to a Roth IRA in 2014. Be sure to inquire about the tax consequences of the conversion, especially if you have funds in other traditional IRAs.

Other Personal Tax-planning Considerations
Withholding/estimated tax payments. With higher rates in effect for 2013, more taxpayers may find themselves exposed to an underpayment penalty. Underpayment penalties can be avoided when total withholdings and estimated tax payments exceed the 2012 tax liability or, in the case of higher-income taxpayers, 110% of 2012 tax.
• Planning point: If you expect to be subject to an underpayment penalty for failure to pay your 2013 tax liability on a timely basis, consider increasing your withholding between now and the end of the year to reduce or eliminate the penalty. Increasing your final estimated tax deposit due Jan. 15, 2014 may reduce the amount of the penalty, but is unlikely to eliminate it entirely. Withholding, even if done on the last day of the tax year, is deemed withheld ratably throughout the tax year.
Losses from pass-through business entities. If your ability to deduct current-year losses from a partnership, LLC, or S corporation may be limited by your tax basis or the ‘at-risk’ rules, consider contributing capital to the entity or, in some cases, making a loan to the entity prior to Dec. 31, 2013, to secure your deduction this year.
• Planning point: If you anticipate a net loss from business activities in which you do not materially participate, consider disposing of the loss activity by Dec. 31, 2013. Assuming sufficient basis exists, all suspended losses become deductible when you dispose of the activity. Even if there is a gain on the disposition, you may still benefit from having the long-term capital gain taxed at 23.8% (inclusive of the NII tax) with the previously suspended losses offsetting other ordinary income.
American opportunity tax credit (AOTC). The AOTC for college costs has been extended for five years through 2017. A credit of up to $2,500 may be claimed during the first four years of college. The credit phases out for AGI in excess of $80,000 for single taxpayers and $160,000 for married taxpayers filing a joint return.
• Planning point: If your income is too high for you to qualify for the AOTC, consider gifting your children the funds necessary to pay the qualified education expenses, making them eligible to claim the AOTC.
Energy credit. The $1,500 credit for new windows and doors has expired, but a credit of up to $500 for residential energy property is still available if prior years’ credits were not taken.
Estate and gift taxes. For 2013, taxpayers are permitted to make tax-free gifts of up to $14,000 per year, per recipient ($28,000 if married and using a gift-splitting election, or if each spouse uses separate funds). By making these gifts annually, taxpayers can transfer significant wealth out of their estate without using any of their lifetime exclusion.
• Planning point: Consider making similar gifts early in 2014. Each year brings a new annual exclusion, and a gift early in the year transfers next year’s appreciation out of your estate.
• Planning point: Additional gifts can be made using the lifetime gift exclusion, which is $5.25 million ($10.5 million for married couples) in 2013. Future exclusions are indexed for inflation. The recent increases to the exclusion make it a good time to review any existing estate and gift plans to ensure they best meet your needs.
• Planning point: When combined with other estate and gift-planning techniques, such as Section 529 plans to help fund your children’s or grandchildren’s college education, the potential exists to avoid or reduce estate and gift taxes while transferring significant wealth to other family members.

Conclusion
The changes initiated during 2013 added layers of complexity to an already difficult tax system, but with a purposeful, informed plan in place, taxpayers can still reap significant benefits. Consult your tax advisor so they can best support you in building your plan for 2013 and beyond.

Kristina Drzal Houghton, CPA, MST is a partner with the Holyoke-based accounting firm Meyers Brothers Kalicka, and director of the firm’s Taxation Division; [email protected]

Room to Grow

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Health Care Sections
Surging Need Prompts Expansion of Sr. Caritas Cancer Center

This planned 20,000-square-foot expansion to the Sr. Caritas Cancer Center

This planned 20,000-square-foot expansion to the Sr. Caritas Cancer Center will allow Mercy Medical Center to offer more comprehensive cancer treatment.

When the Sr. Caritas Cancer Center opened its doors in 2003, the 16,000-square-foot facility effectively doubled the cancer-treatment capacity of Mercy Medical Center, the heart of the Sisters of Providence Health System (SPHS), and specialized in the growing field of radiation oncology.
There was probably little thought then that a major expansion, one that would more than double the current footprint, would be needed less than a decade later. But in the ever-changing realm of cancer treatment, much can happen in just a few years.
In this case, advancements in the field of medical onology have precipitated an explosion in need for those type of services. At the same time, Mercy has joined forces with medical oncologist Dr. Philip Glynn, in a venture that has brought both great opportunity and a stern challenge: a pressing need for more space.
The latter is being addressed with a $15 million, 20,000-square-foot expansion that will increase the number of chemotherapy treatment bays from the current 10 to 32, while also providing the room, and flexibility, to handle projected needs for years to come, said Dr. Scott Wolf, who serves as Mercy Medical Center’s senior vice president of Medical Affairs, chief medical officer, and chief operating officer.
As for the former, Wolf said Glynn’s decision to merge his growing practice with Mercy Medical Center’s medical oncology services provides the institution with an opportunity to achieve much greater balance in its efforts to provide the two major cancer-treatment modalities — radiation oncology and chemotherapy — and also take cancer-treatment services to a much higher level.
“Our goal is to establish ourselves as a center of excellence in comprehensive oncology care,” Wolf told BusinessWest. “Building on the already-existing expertise in our radiation oncology, and then adding modalities and surgical oncology and subspecialty medical oncology, we will elevate ourselves as a center of excellence.
Dr. Philip Glynn

Dr. Philip Glynn serves as the cancer center’s new director of Medical Oncology, and has helped expand Mercy’s chemotherapy services.

“This has been Dr. Glynn’s vision, beyond just his practice, for several years,” Wolf continued.  “He first came to me about two years ago about creating a foundation of a more comprehensive oncology service line.”
Soon after that conversation, Glynn merged his private practice, Murray Glynn P.C., with Mercy Medical Center in June 2012.
“Our group of medical oncologists came together because we felt that collectively we could provide a more effective service to our patients and to this community,” said Glynn, who is now the director of Medical Oncology through Mercy Oncology Services.
This development created an immediate need for more facilities at Mercy, which was met by establishing 10 temporary infusion bays at the nearby Weldon Center for Rehabilitation.
While this was taking place, MorrisSwitzer – Environments for Health, a Boston-based architecture firm that focuses exclusively on the healthcare sector, began designing an expansion of the Caritas Center.
Groundbreaking is slated for next spring, and the facility is expected to open in late 2015, said Wolf. Funding for the expansion will be derived through a variety of means, including a working capital loan from Trinity Health (the second-largest Catholic health system in the country), a forthcoming capital campaign, and future operating revenue from the new center.
While the architectural plans and the new expansion layout are complete, the bid requests for construction management will go out soon.
For this issue, BusinessWest takes an in-depth look at the plans to expand the Sr. Caritas Center, and also at what this development means for Mercy and SPHS as the system works to expand its presence in cancer treatment.

Supply and Demand
As he talked about the changes and developments that put the Caritas Center expansion plans on the drawing board, Mark Fulco, senior vice president of Strategy and Marketing for SPHS, started with some rather sobering statistics regarding cancer in this country.
He said that analysis of data provided by the state Department of Health, national statistics, and interviews with consumers and community leaders reveals that the demand for medical oncology services is expected to increase by 11% over the next 10 years.
The aging of the nation’s population is a big factor in these estimates, but there are other factors that point to heightened demand both nationally and especially in this region, he went on, citing a smoking rate of 23.8% in Greater Springfield, nearly double the national average of 14.7%.
While these numbers indicate that Mercy was likely to eventually need more space and facilities at the Caritas Center, the recent merger with Glynn’s practice certainly accelerated that process, Fulco noted.
Wolf concurred, noting that this consolidation more than doubled the number of medical oncology treatments at Mercy, from roughly 3,000 per year to more than 7,000. And the expansion is designed to accommodate 30,000 annually.
“Phil is an incredibly gifted physician, and due to his presence in this community, he has an extremely loyal following,” said Wolf. “Oncologists as a whole are a special group of physicians, just because of the nature of their business, but Phil takes it to another level.”
The planed expansion will feature two floors of medical oncology services adjacent to the current single-story facility on the eastern side of the Mercy Medical Center campus that houses radiation oncology.
But there is much more to the expansion than additional square footage and infusion bays, said Fulco.
“What we’re putting together to meet greater demand for services is a truly comprehensive cancer center with cancer diagnosis, treatment, and other modalities, like support and our spiritual-care team, all in one place,” said Fulco. “The physicians will be in close proximity to each other so that it will further enhance collaboration efforts, with cancer being treated through a team approach.”
Elaborating, he said the new, enlarged Caritas Center will bring together what he called a talented team of clinicians.
Glynn is now responsible for all aspects of the medical oncology program and its activities, such as cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, state-of-the-art treatment, counseling, and rehabilitation.
Glynn and his seven-member oncology team will be joined by Dr. Neal Chuang, the new chief of thoracic surgery, who is trained on the da Vinci S Surgical System, the latest in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery; Dr. Mark Sherman, also a thoracic surgeon and a new surgical oncologist; and Dr. Julia Donovan, a specialist in female reproductive cancers. Within the existing radiation department are Dr. Catherine Carton, the full-time director of radiation oncology; and radiation oncologist Dr. Mary Ann Lowen.
“Dr. Glynn has a very clear and progressive vision for where cancer care and interventions are going,” said Fulco, adding that Glynn’s keen interest in pursuing new interventions that aren’t currently available at Mercy, or anywhere else, for that matter, will see those new modalities being developed and eventually in use at the center.
For example, 10 years ago, when the current center opened, two linear accelerators (used for external beam radiation treatments) and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) were hyped in the press as advanced technology; today, the team is proud of the two Elekta Infinity intensity-guided radiation-therapy machines, which are advanced linear accelerators (see sidebar, page 17), and are the only two of their kind in Western Mass.
Casting the net even wider, the business plan written 18 months ago by Daniel Moen, president and CEO of SPHS, with Wolf, Glynn and others, demands that the team be consistently aggressive in seeking new technology, new treatment modalities, and new relationships.
To that end, Wolf said the team is in the early stages of identifying a tertiary partner, one that would offer access to clinical trials, second-opinion expertise, genetic profiling, and many other services that will be demanded of a truly comprehensive cancer-care facility.
Fulco said this represents the type of forward thinking that is a very important motivation for Glynn, who also assists with the development and implementation of new program initiatives, such as cancer survivorship, navigation, community outreach, and clinical research/clinical trial participation.

Progressive Vision
Fulco told BusinessWest that, when plans were first put on the drawing board for what would become the Sr. Caritas Cancer Center, the overarching philosophy was to create a facility that would drive home the point that area residents did not have to drive to Hartford, Boston, New York, or anywhere else to receive quality cancer treatment.
Over the past decade, the facility has gone a long way toward proving that point, and the planned expansion of the center will only make it easier to make that argument.
“Except for the esoteric type of cancer that requires specialists who are just as rare and requires experimental therapies, the modalities that we have available to treat patients here are equivalent to the very best in the world,” said Fulco. “You don’t need to go to Boston or New York to get a leading-edge treatment.”

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]

Court Dockets

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Court Dockets Departments

The following is a compilation of recent lawsuits involving area businesses and organizations. These are strictly allegations that have yet to be proven in a court of law. Readers are advised to contact the parties listed, or the court, for more information concerning the individual claims.

CHICOPEE DISTRICT COURT
Javier Morales v. PVTA
Allegation: Negligent operation of a motor vehicle causing personal injury: $4,883.51
Filed: 9/23/13

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Eastfield Glass Company Inc. v. Fontaine Inc. and Federal Insurance Company
Allegation: Breach of construction agreement for new high school and monies owed: $80,912.50
Filed: 10/11/13

Fred L. Aaron v. Creating Comfort Outlet, LLP and Joshua Barina and Jose Barina Jr.
Allegation: Breach of lease agreement: $163,658.35
Filed: 10/4/13

RK Petroleum Inc. v. Arya Petroleum Corp.
Allegation: Breach of promissory note: $315,000
Filed: 10/9/13

University Driving School Inc. v. Anthony R. Gomez d/b/a Western Mass Auto Academy
Allegation: Violation of agreement not to compete: $2,500
Filed: 10/1/13

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT
John Mesheau v. IKO Manufacturing Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract and express and implied warranties and unfair and deceptive trade practices: $60,000+
Filed: 9/6/13

PALMER DISTRICT COURT
Paley, Rothman, Goldstein, Rosenberg, EIG, & Cooper, Chartered v. Hampden Structural Steel Inc. d/b/a Private Garden Greenhouse Systems
Allegation: Non-payment on previous judgment: $9,263.09
Filed: 8/26/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Ashaunti Lawrence v. Fara Leasing Inc.
Allegation: Negligent operation by a taxicab driver causing injury: $4,257.32
Filed: 9/20/13

Robert D. Manz v. Pioneer Valley Transit Authority
Allegation: Breach of contract: $2,400+
Filed: 10/7/13

Doing Business as Certificates

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DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of and October 2013.

AGAWAM

JW High School Academy
404 Barry St.
Trina Davis

Maximum Lawn Care
22 Vernon St.
Dean Molta

The Dirty Ash Cleaning Company
32 Rhodes Ave.
Paul Chenevert

Xpressions by Gigi
1192 Suffield St.
Gorete Goncalves

AMHERST

Amherst Machine Company
16 Cowls Road
James Bernota

GIS Matters
1 Tuckerman Lane
Christopher Duncan

Save Historic Cushman
400 Flat Hills Road
Ira Beyck

CHICOPEE

Chicopee Garden Club
16 Czepiel St.
Linda Perrault

Falon’s Hair & Nails
498 Britton St.
Falon Johnson

Partners in Prosperity
23 Trilby Ave.
Geoffrey Croteau

HOLYOKE

Banana Republic
50 Holyoke St.
Thomas A. Croston

Bodega 24, LLC
154 High St.
Hector Mangual

Fitzpatrick Snack Bar
575 Maple St.
Ann Lizak

Ikasa
231 South St.
Mohammed Sheikh

Spirit Halloween Superstores, LLC
50 Holyoke St.
Barry Susson

Zeus Refrigeration & Climate Control
409 Homestead Ave.
John Zantouliadis

NORTHAMPTON

Clarity Data Services
36 Wilson Ave.
Graham Ridley

Damon Road Rentals
96 Damon Road
William Mock

Hampshire House Publishing
8 Nonotuck St.
Stan Freeman

Incite
14 Maplewood Shops
Jonna Sciacca

Quantum Leap Dynamic Life Coaching & Hypnosis
2 Conz St.
Lillian Moss

The Word on Wood
342 Pleasant St.
Thomas Vassar

PALMER

Humble Abode Home Improvement
124 Chudy St.
Gregory Gibbs

Lawson Painting
370 Springfield St.
Michael Lawson

SPRINGFIELD

Just Communities of Western Massachusetts
640 Page Blvd.
Bliss Requa-Trautz

K & J’s Accessories
2 Chestnut St.
Karla Michelle

K & M Enterprises
123 Pondview Dr.
Kyle D. Callender

Kenny Tax Service & Co.
510 Armory St.
Eliana Taveras

King of the City Productions
385 Worthington St.
Anthony Joseph

L & S Fashion
1153 Main St.
Julie S. Soto

Law Offices of Michael J. Grilli
1 Monarch Place
Michael J. Grilli

Mar-Con
433 Nassau St.
Marcin Solowinski

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
1380 Boston Road
GMRI, Inc.

Pretty Nails
786 State St.
Oanh Hoang

Skin Catering
1500 Main St.
Leanne Sedlak

Sophia’s Permanent Makeup
1188 Parker St.
Khoa H. Nguyen

T-Mobile
1655 Boston Road
Shaher Ismail

The Uppity Girl
522 Main St.
Jasmin Lowe

Vibra Nursing & Rehabilitation
1400 State St.
Vibra Hospital

Villa Electronics Repairs
31 Beauchamp St.
Leslye A. Rivera

Vinny’s Clothing Store
1611 Main St.
Vicente Gonzalez

Willow Tree Outdoor
1523 Wilbraham Road
Katie Pacheco

WESTFIELD

And the Beat Goes On DJ & Lighting
421 Northwest Road
Christopher J. DeGray

CFB’s Farrier Service
189 Honey Pot Road
Cary F. Bedor

Traveling Rosaries Apostolate
56 Grandview Dr.
Linda N. Gerlip

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Affordable Marine Service
58 Front St.
Jeffrey N. Netrault

Andrew Skroback and Association
117 Park Ave.
Andrew E. Skroback

Exceptional Property
108 Ely Ave.
David J. Pighetti

Green Valley Property
18 Church St.
Jeffrey Gagnon

K Brothers Construction
96 Kings Highway
Yuriy Krasnov

Real Estate Transactions

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Departments Real Estate

The following real estate transactions (latest avail­able) were compiled by Banker & Tradesman and are published as they were received. Only transactions exceeding $115,000 are listed. Buyer and seller fields contain only the first name listed on the deed.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

BERNARDSTON

39 Deacon Parker Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Northfield Mt. Hermon School
Seller: Scott D. Sibley
Date: 09/30/13

BUCKLAND

3 Bray Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Brian W. Rice
Seller: Susan E. Geetersloh
Date: 09/30/13

34 Crittenden Hill Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $687,000
Buyer: Dennis D. Mehiel
Seller: Amy S. Reiser
Date: 09/27/13

CONWAY

896 Graves Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Marcia P. Lewis
Seller: Peter G. Prudden
Date: 10/04/13

117 Maple St.
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $238,000
Buyer: William T. Cote
Seller: Doherty INT
Date: 09/27/13

DEERFIELD

5 Eastern Ave.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Mark E. Pichette
Seller: Sanicki, James J., (Estate)
Date: 09/27/13

46 McClelland Farm Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amount: $319,000
Buyer: Gregory E. Whittier
Seller: Kris N. Warner
Date: 09/30/13

66 North Main St.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $134,000
Buyer: Lisa B. Middents
Seller: Vladimir Agapov
Date: 09/27/13

ERVING

41 Forest St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Jeanine M. Dibari
Seller: Jeffrey D. Budine
Date: 10/02/13

GREENFIELD

73 Beacon St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Gerard J. Gualberto
Seller: Chevalier, Mary A., (Estate)
Date: 09/30/13

24 Church St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $259,010
Buyer: Eleanor L. Mandell
Seller: Home For Aged People
Date: 09/30/13

85 Harrison Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: David R. Kox
Seller: Michael H. Merritt
Date: 09/30/13

119 Harrison Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Zsuzsana E. Randall
Seller: Shirley E. Renfrew
Date: 09/23/13

15 Lincoln St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $127,500
Buyer: Patricia P. Marcus
Seller: John D. Merrigan
Date: 09/23/13

186 Plain Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $213,000
Buyer: Joseph R. Charron
Seller: Douglas H. Robinson
Date: 09/30/13

53 Pleasant St.
Greenfield, MA 01376
Amount: $140,040
Buyer: Bank Of New York Mellon
Seller: Felix L. Diaz
Date: 09/30/13

HEATH

33 Town Farm Road
Heath, MA 01346
Amount: $331,500
Buyer: Thomas H. Manley
Seller: John K. Burk
Date: 10/04/13

LEYDEN

19 Stephen Lane
Leyden, MA 01301
Amount: $193,000
Buyer: Priscilla E. Sherman
Seller: Nils E. Bross
Date: 09/23/13

MONTAGUE

46 Davis St.
Montague, MA 01301
Amount: $143,500
Buyer: Christopher L. Bedaw
Seller: Dorothy E. Juskiewicz
Date: 09/25/13

7 Woodland Dr.
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Alvah L. Sibley
Seller: FNMA
Date: 10/01/13

NEW SALEM

36 North Main St.
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $184,000
Buyer: Cameron H. Dunbar
Seller: Richard C. Castine
Date: 09/25/13

NORTHFIELD

232 Old Vernon Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $182,500
Buyer: Thomas E. Harrison
Seller: Edmund C. Bassett
Date: 09/27/13

ORANGE

140 Horton Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Michael P. Gardner
Seller: Peter J. Baribault
Date: 10/02/13

419 Tully Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $176,500
Buyer: Gregory R. McIntyre
Seller: Michael D. Sherar
Date: 10/04/13

SHELBURNE

462 Little Mohawk Road
Shelburne, MA 01370
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Robert N. Nouryan
Seller: Sayagyi U. Ba Khin Memorial TR
Date: 09/25/13

SUNDERLAND

466 Hadley Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $1,499,381
Buyer: Szawlowski Realty Inc.
Seller: S&J Land Trust LLC
Date: 09/25/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

6 Althea Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $229,900
Buyer: Amy Richards
Seller: Jason A. Rocca
Date: 09/26/13

32 Annable St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $148,000
Buyer: Arni Atlason
Seller: Colleen A. Shelden-Ferry
Date: 09/27/13

154 Elmar Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $234,000
Buyer: Heather R. Ferreira
Seller: Philip B. Charette
Date: 10/04/13

123 Mallard Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $252,000
Buyer: William E. Bunnell
Seller: Donna L. Montagna
Date: 09/27/13

229 North St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $161,000
Buyer: Jerome L. Luke
Seller: Davilli, Faustino V., (Estate)
Date: 10/01/13

632 North St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $342,000
Buyer: Rudolph J. Gay
Seller: Carol E. Chatman
Date: 09/30/13

50 Primrose Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Francis A. Connor
Seller: Gilbert D. Olivares
Date: 10/04/13

32 Redwood Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Sarah Morris
Seller: Amy Kowarsky
Date: 09/25/13

177 River Road
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Jonnie M. Starnes
Seller: Oak Ridge Custom Home Builders
Date: 09/26/13

92 Royal St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Ruslan Kuzmenko
Seller: Robert J. Hagberg
Date: 09/23/13

520 School St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Kevin B. Tos
Seller: Siarhei Siarheyev
Date: 09/23/13

274 Silver St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Jeremy R. Rodier
Seller: Preston F. Perreault
Date: 09/27/13

519 Southwick St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $213,500
Buyer: Stephanie A. Lees
Seller: Jason R. Bessette
Date: 09/30/13

603 Suffield St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Artem Artemov
Seller: Alma J. Cortez
Date: 09/30/13

BRIMFIELD

280 Little Alum Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Adam R. Ingram
Seller: Karen A. Davis
Date: 09/27/13

N/A
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $138,500
Buyer: Timothy R. Walder
Seller: Stearns, James C. Sr., (Estate)
Date: 09/27/13

CHESTER

375 Middlefield Road
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Mark A. Hynes
Date: 09/27/13

160 Skyline Trail
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $288,000
Buyer: Keith Hall
Seller: Christopher West
Date: 09/30/13

CHICOPEE

17 8th Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: William B. Vanzandt
Seller: Jeanne Y. Ruell
Date: 09/26/13

107 7th Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Spencer R. Hart
Seller: Derick B. Lamoureux
Date: 09/30/13

34 Baltic Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $173,000
Buyer: Carlos J. Delgado
Seller: Robert P. Langevin
Date: 09/23/13

56 Billings St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Christian McCoy
Seller: Doris M. Stewart
Date: 09/30/13

24 Blanchard St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $126,000
Buyer: Andrew M. Chagnon
Seller: Mary A. Duguay

4 Burton St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $283,609
Buyer: Federal Management Center
Seller: Vesper Gibbs-Barnes
Date: 10/02/13

163 Delaney Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $181,000
Buyer: Amy A. Kowal
Seller: Richard A. Holmes
Date: 09/27/13

17 Factory St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $185,073
Buyer: USA HUD
Seller: Mark T. Sells
Date: 09/27/13

68 Factory St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Robert R. Mercer
Seller: Marie T. Appleby
Date: 09/27/13

6 Glenwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Alyssa A. Demers
Seller: Joseph Laliberte
Date: 09/30/13

217 Grattan St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: FAB Holdings LLC
Seller: Philip L. Beaulieu
Date: 09/30/13

35 Linden St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Justin D. Delonge
Seller: Chicopee Neighborhood Development
Date: 09/27/13

124 Marten St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Paul C. Grace
Seller: Francis J. Schillinger
Date: 10/03/13

792 McKinstry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Karen L. Watts
Seller: Geoffrey C. Gagnon
Date: 09/30/13

78 Old Lyman Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $268,000
Buyer: Michael J. Dean
Seller: Daniel P. Stamborski
Date: 09/30/13

114 Rimmon Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $129,000
Buyer: Nathan P. Hudon
Seller: Walter S. Urbanek
Date: 09/27/13

140 Trilby Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Travis J. Raby
Seller: Claire C. Zacharie
Date: 09/30/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

12 Dale St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Debora A. Lavelli
Seller: Raffaele S. Carrano
Date: 09/30/13

Denslow Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $950,000
Buyer: Bay Path College
Seller: WLF Realty LLC
Date: 09/27/13

12 Pilgrim Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: David Behnk
Seller: Thomas M. Dodge
Date: 09/30/13

217 Porter Road
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Edward F. Prendergast
Seller: Paul J. Mercieri
Date: 09/27/13

1 Redin Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $194,000
Buyer: Seyedmehdi Sehbarader
Seller: Emmett W. Reardon
Date: 09/25/13

5 Roderick Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $287,500
Buyer: Loan Nguyen
Seller: Deborah A. Ainsworth
Date: 10/01/13

54 South Brook Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Ryan McCarthy
Seller: John F. Sullivan
Date: 09/25/13

83 Waterman Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $299,900
Buyer: Jennifer M. Territo
Seller: Vincenzo R. Amore
Date: 09/27/13

110 Westwood Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $142,299
Buyer: Twinbrook Associates LLC
Seller: US Bank
Date: 10/04/13

271 Westwood Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $283,000
Buyer: Antonios C. Jannakas
Seller: Shelley L. Pim
Date: 10/01/13

GRANVILLE

123 Barnard Road
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $655,000
Buyer: Paul Mayer
Seller: Robert Connelly
Date: 10/04/13

HAMPDEN

36 Crestwood Lane
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $203,000
Buyer: Christopher Lanzoni
Seller: Jason D. Christofori
Date: 10/02/13

23 Fernwood Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Ashlee M. Deziel
Seller: David J. Rock
Date: 09/30/13

50 Martin Farms Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $229,500
Buyer: Sharon A. Woodwin
Seller: Craig A. Krejci
Date: 09/30/13

187 Sessions Dr.
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $226,500
Buyer: Marlenne Rivera
Seller: Patricia R. Waskiewicz
Date: 09/30/13

HOLLAND

2 Fenton St.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Donald Boutin
Seller: David C. Silbor
Date: 09/30/13

34 Leno Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Nicholas C. Ellsworth
Seller: Eric Perez
Date: 09/30/13

25 Stony Hill Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $159,900
Buyer: Bradley S. Sherrod
Seller: Jonathan D. Mason
Date: 09/30/13

57 Sturbridge Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $177,000
Buyer: Jordan R. Vallon
Seller: Matthew A. Pooler
Date: 09/30/13

HOLYOKE

114 Allyn St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Katherine M. Hall
Seller: Hilda M. Kotfila
Date: 09/26/13

34 Bassett Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Donald W. Miner
Seller: William C. Riley
Date: 09/30/13

11 Belvidere Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $161,900
Buyer: Shawn R. Croake
Seller: Edward J. Rondeau
Date: 10/01/13

22 Bemis Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $244,900
Buyer: Robert Zucker
Seller: Margaret Vezina
Date: 09/25/13

133 Brown Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $207,000
Buyer: A-Z Property Mgmt. LLC
Seller: Joshua G. Lynn
Date: 10/01/13

158 Dartmouth St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Daniel S. Kates
Seller: James F. McDonough
Date: 09/27/13

81 Edbert Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $155,360
Buyer: Christopher J. Dautel
Seller: Joseph A. Rivera
Date: 09/25/13

26 Edward Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Corrie A. Houle
Seller: Minerva Alvarez
Date: 09/24/13

29 Fenton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Angel M. Cruz
Seller: James P. Fenton
Date: 09/26/13

4 Irving St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $204,000
Buyer: Kirstin R. Kay
Seller: Jeanne L. Lippman
Date: 09/27/13

1548 Northampton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: ES Residential LLC
Seller: John Sutter
Date: 10/03/13

1863 Northampton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $150,820
Seller: Gregory J. Fox
Date: 09/30/13

23 Washington Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $186,500
Buyer: Avraham A. Harris
Seller: Christine Callahan
Date: 09/27/13

1 Western View Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: April Choiniere
Seller: John J. Ferriter
Date: 09/26/13

LONGMEADOW

75 Brooks Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $335,500
Buyer: Steven E. Rovithis
Seller: Bernadette J. Weitz
Date: 09/24/13

67 East Greenwich Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $725,000
Buyer: Edward Feldmann
Seller: Paul G. Chiampa
Date: 09/30/13

156 Green Hill Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $545,000
Buyer: Michael W. Shea
Seller: Therese B. Lapierre
Date: 09/27/13

17 Highland St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Matthew P. Wranovix
Seller: Harriet A. Fortin
Date: 09/25/13

483 Inverness Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Christopher J. Denmark
Seller: Debora A. Lavelli
Date: 09/30/13

523 Laurel St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $271,500
Buyer: Thomas M. Libbos
Seller: Andrew Dzierzgowski
Date: 09/23/13

11 Maple Ter.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Helen C. Gouzounis
Seller: David H. Cosgriff
Date: 09/30/13

28 Oak Hollow Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: Peter D. Cherichetti
Seller: Gregory I. Halpern
Date: 10/01/13

24 Salem Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $513,000
Buyer: Gregory I. Halpern
Seller: Richard S. Bell
Date: 10/01/13

107 Viscount Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $435,000
Buyer: Daniel C. Petersen
Seller: Jorge E. Silva
Date: 09/24/13

LUDLOW

34 Alvin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Elba G. Pires
Seller: Susan C. Sulewski
Date: 09/27/13

42 Beachside Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Denise C. Golinski
Seller: Harvey A. Savoie
Date: 10/04/13

92 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Rafael A. Silva
Seller: Kevin V. Maltby
Date: 10/03/13

125 Church St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Eric S. Bohnet
Seller: Rae C. Stack
Date: 09/25/13

49 Maple St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Brenna M. Dubosh
Seller: Arlindo Valadares
Date: 09/26/13

N/A
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Ryan Gagne
Seller: Nicholas Morin
Date: 10/04/13

Sunbriar Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Michael R. Beauregard
Seller: David R. Lavoie
Date: 10/01/13

MONSON

306 Main St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Floyd W. Fairbanks
Seller: Bruno J. Costa
Date: 09/30/13

80 Upper Hampden Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $254,900
Buyer: Charles L. Hood
Seller: Harold J. Henry
Date: 09/25/13

MONTGOMERY

285 Main Road
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Laura M. Marino
Seller: Jeffrey M. Defeo
Date: 09/30/13

PALMER

78 Bacon Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: John Perkins
Seller: William M. Wanat
Date: 10/01/13

57 Elizabeth St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $232,500
Buyer: Jeremiah Casavant
Seller: Barbara A. Butcher
Date: 09/27/13

4185 High St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $139,500
Buyer: Jaime Delvalle
Seller: Duane M. Corbin
Date: 10/01/13

3136 Hillside Dr.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Jason M. Carlow
Seller: HAP Inc.
Date: 10/04/13

117 Longview St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $219,000
Buyer: Pamela J. Gurney
Seller: Lou A. Grimes
Date: 09/30/13

2010 Overlook Dr.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $193,000
Buyer: James Brothers
Seller: Sharon A. Woodin
Date: 09/30/13

3051 Pine St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $167,500
Buyer: Michael B. Atwood
Seller: Renee Belleville
Date: 09/30/13

61 Summer St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $166,556
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Benjamin A. Cooper
Date: 10/04/13

SOUTHWICK

2 Alcove Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $570,000
Buyer: Claudia T. Martorell
Seller: Matthew A. Curtis
Date: 09/30/13

3 Birchwood Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Eugene J. Whitehead
Seller: Blake, Helen, (Estate)
Date: 09/27/13

2 Falcon Crest
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $442,000
Buyer: Jason Rocca
Seller: Randal B. Carlton
Date: 09/26/13

15 Lake Shore Dr.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $129,500
Buyer: Paula Maher
Seller: Joshua G. Lynn
Date: 10/01/13

9 Maple St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: Jamie L. Garvey
Seller: Amie S. Seibert
Date: 10/01/13

North Pond Road #2
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $123,735
Buyer: John R. Parla
Seller: David M. Falbo
Date: 09/26/13

North Pond Road #3
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $123,735
Buyer: John R. Parla
Seller: David M. Falbo
Date: 09/26/13

10 Secluded Ridge
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: David K. Kruse
Seller: Mary L. Guzik
Date: 09/26/13

49 South Loomis St.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Kelli M. Higgins
Seller: Michael R. Burns
Date: 10/04/13

109 Summer Dr.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $123,735
Buyer: John R. Parla
Seller: David M. Falbo
Date: 09/26/13

SPRINGFIELD

9 Allen Park Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $119,900
Buyer: Edwin D. Deberry
Seller: John J. Albano
Date: 09/30/13

25 Arvesta St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $208,000
Buyer: Gerald M. Foley
Seller: Paul F. Fernands
Date: 09/27/13

31 Balboa Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $132,500
Buyer: Joseph G. Forbes
Seller: Jeffrey Dunlop
Date: 10/04/13

150 Brookdale Dr.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $1,125,000
Buyer: Manufacturers Group LLC
Seller: Berkshire Brookdale LLC
Date: 09/26/13

49 Burnside Terrace
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $132,900
Buyer: Katelyn R. Kimball
Seller: Jeanette A. Whittier
Date: 09/30/13

112 Dayton St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: David Rudder
Seller: Steven C. Wolf
Date: 09/30/13

223 Dayton St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $152,500
Buyer: Daniel P. Allard
Seller: Marjorie C. McNeill
Date: 09/27/13

84 Denwall Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Enyoc Investment Properties
Seller: Nancy L. Folk
Date: 09/27/13

132 Dwight Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Luis M. Perez
Seller: Ahap LLC
Date: 09/26/13

123 El Paso St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $124,407
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Matthew F. Dusseault
Date: 10/02/13

30 Falmouth St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Angela L. Martins
Seller: Ana Beleza
Date: 09/26/13

5 Gates Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Douglas Johnson
Seller: Joyce M. Debose
Date: 10/01/13

301 Gillette Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $138,000
Buyer: Kara Sotolotto
Seller: Kevin M. Dudley
Date: 09/25/13

176 Glenoak Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $147,000
Buyer: James M. McLaughlin
Seller: William J. Lapalm
Date: 10/02/13

105 Hampden St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Denise Anghilante
Seller: Shu Cheng
Date: 09/23/13

109 Harmon Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Joanne G. Costello
Seller: Rafael A. Hernandez
Date: 10/04/13

14 Hartwick St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Stephanie N. Cisler
Seller: Stephen Gasco
Date: 09/30/13

14 Herman St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $119,000
Buyer: Jose Santos
Seller: James W. Fiore
Date: 10/01/13

88 Hickory St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $1,093,376
Buyer: Springfield College
Seller: Spring Hill Apts. LP
Date: 09/30/13

17 Kosciusko St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $138,000
Buyer: Timothy J. Ferber
Seller: Cindy C. Santos
Date: 10/04/13

60 Lancaster St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Matthew R. Sullivan
Seller: Ashlee M. Deziel
Date: 09/30/13

59 Laurence St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Vilai Sivongxai
Seller: USA HUD
Date: 09/23/13

42 Longfellow Ter.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $162,501
Buyer: Household Finance Corp.
Seller: Jacqueline M. Griswold
Date: 09/24/13

3 Los Angeles St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $178,220
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Gricelle Santiago
Date: 10/02/13

46 Midway St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Jaimie L. Standing
Seller: Robert N. Genander
Date: 10/04/13

41 Montclair St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Angel J. Martinez
Seller: James W. Fiore
Date: 10/01/13

17 Notre Dame St. #38
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $202,000
Buyer: Charles Stevenson
Seller: Elaine C. Graham
Date: 10/04/13

87 Pennsylvania Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $134,900
Buyer: Narapati Kafley
Seller: Anita L. Reilly
Date: 09/30/13

74 Randall Place
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $236,900
Buyer: Randall Seventy Four LLC
Seller: KRM Real Estate LLC
Date: 09/26/13

Shefford St. (SWS) #9
Springfield, MA 01101
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Lynn A. McAuliffe
Seller: McAuliffe, Pauline R., (Estate)
Date: 10/04/13

115 Signal Hill Circle
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Robin S. Sanchez
Seller: Diane A. Demarco
Date: 10/03/13

51 Sylvan St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: Luis J. Navarro
Seller: Nguyet Nguyen
Date: 09/25/13

425 Trafton Road
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $253,000
Buyer: Lauren E. Fiorentino FT
Seller: Nicole E. Marks
Date: 09/27/13

3 Waterford Circle
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: Peter Kelly
Seller: Karen R. Hanson
Date: 09/26/13

206 West Allen Ridge Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Hung Giang
Seller: Andrew Thomas
Date: 09/30/13

8 White Birch Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Jose Serrano
Seller: Martin J. Getchell
Date: 09/30/13

178 Wollaston St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $189,900
Buyer: Omar J. Yousef
Seller: JV Properties Inc.
Date: 09/25/13

TOLLAND

33 Lands End Dr.
Tolland, MA 01034
Amount: $420,000
Buyer: Peter Girouard
Seller: Hyland, Thomas, (Estate)
Date: 10/03/13

WESTFIELD

33 Adams St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: George Chapman
Seller: Robert K. Walker
Date: 09/26/13

305 Buck Pond Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Laura C. Kellogg
Seller: Paul R. Desrosiers
Date: 09/30/13

315 Buck Pond Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Jared M. Longley
Seller: Douglas W. Bishop
Date: 09/30/13

12 Cortez St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $124,440
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Melvin R. Perry
Date: 10/04/13

51 Court St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $218,900
Buyer: Christopher R. Judson
Seller: Pamela Leigh
Date: 09/27/13

10 Forest Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $152,500
Buyer: Sarah C. Sanderson
Seller: Lawrence Borovicka
Date: 09/30/13

59 George St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Amy M. Desilets
Seller: Julio Melendez
Date: 10/04/13

32 Harvest Moon Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $458,000
Buyer: David A. Carlin
Seller: Steven F. Bertera
Date: 09/30/13

55 Jefferson St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Buyer: William J. Cronin
Seller: Laura Kellogg
Date: 09/30/13

190 Joseph Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $208,900
Buyer: Inna Shvetsova
Seller: Kenneth O. Fuller
Date: 09/30/13

405 Montgomery Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Stacey A. Sorawat
Seller: Giberson Construction Inc.
Date: 09/23/13

32 Murray Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $188,000
Buyer: Nicholas R. Redfern
Seller: Kirsten I. Casavant
Date: 09/27/13

118 Old Farm Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Diamantis Diamantopoulos
Seller: Robert Barnes
Date: 09/30/13

21 Princeton St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Robert Mazeika
Seller: Provident Fund Assocs. LP
Date: 10/01/13

94 Riverside Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Mark P. Slessler
Seller: David G. Gauthier
Date: 09/27/13

3 Rosedell Dr. Ext.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $243,000
Buyer: Rodrigo D. Mascarenhas
Seller: Jazab LLC
Date: 09/27/13

571 Southampton Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Legend Associates LLC
Seller: Michael T. Beal
Date: 10/03/13

24 Sunrise Ter.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $121,619
Buyer: USA VA
Seller: Donna J. Miranda
Date: 10/04/13

158 Tannery Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Robert W. Chipman
Seller: Daniel J. Seibert
Date: 09/30/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

21 Almon Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $169,500
Buyer: Jason A. Caron
Seller: Peter D. Towle
Date: 09/30/13

24 Burke Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Yessenia Figueroa
Seller: Jared M. Longley
Date: 09/30/13

270 Ely Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $222,000
Buyer: Christopher J. Rizzuto
Seller: Patricia Langevin
Date: 09/26/13

189 Hillcrest Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $149,229
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: James C. Parent
Date: 09/24/13

93 Kings Hwy.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $154,650
Buyer: Alfred P. Bronner
Seller: James A. Ryan
Date: 10/04/13

322 Main St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Mustafa F. Niyazov
Seller: Filomena R. Larocca
Date: 09/30/13

618 Morgan Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Brett A. Smith
Seller: Robert G. Gordon
Date: 09/26/13

782 Morgan Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: Peter E. Mwanansao
Seller: Mary E. Piela
Date: 10/01/13

29 Old Orchard Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $189,900
Buyer: Steven A. Bramlett
Seller: Bradford A. Aubin
Date: 10/04/13

15 Piper Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Richard T. Cerrone
Seller: Donald Vachon
Date: 09/27/13

521 Piper Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Daniel A. O’Sullivan
Seller: Michael S. Czepiel
Date: 09/24/13

64 Poplar Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Duane H. Mason
Seller: Centracchio, Julia, (Estate)
Date: 09/27/13

92 Prospect Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $173,000
Buyer: Alexis K. Godden
Seller: Marissa Monti
Date: 10/04/13

130 Prospect Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Maryann E. Solomos
Seller: Stephen P. Bartolucci
Date: 09/25/13

56 Woodbrook Ter.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $337,500
Buyer: John F. Young
Seller: Laura J. Davis
Date: 09/24/13

WILBRAHAM

2350 Boston Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $725,000
Buyer: Baystate Self Storage of Wilbraham
Seller: Mari E. Tarpinian
Date: 10/03/13

100 Faculty St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $312,000
Buyer: Xingluan Cao
Seller: Mark T. Carlson
Date: 09/27/13

15 Hitchcock Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $439,000
Buyer: David Goodrich
Seller: Sheryl L. McQuade
Date: 09/30/13

11 Mcintosh Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $374,000
Buyer: Dominic D. Maloni
Seller: Christopher T. Collins
Date: 09/26/13

6 Millbrook Circle
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $297,500
Buyer: Brandon M. Waskiewicz
Seller: Beth A. Steil
Date: 09/30/13

726 Monson Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Marc E. Mylonakis
Seller: Rudolph M. Dias
Date: 10/01/13

491 Stony Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Linda Gates
Seller: Douglas Eldridge
Date: 09/27/13

34 Sunnyside Terrace
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Ian G. Kearney
Seller: Stephen M. Caraker
Date: 09/27/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

16 Arbor Way
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $433,500
Buyer: Tasmiah P. Chowdhury
Seller: Henry L. Pope
Date: 09/27/13

42 Harris St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $272,500
Buyer: Irene Nystrom
Seller: Anna M. Sceffey
Date: 09/25/13

41 Hunters Hill Circle
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $316,000
Buyer: Sujata R. Konowitz
Seller: Windcatcher RET
Date: 09/27/13

93 High Point Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $339,900
Buyer: Ann C. Kenworthy
Seller: Gayle A. Metevia
Date: 10/04/13

11 Indian Pipe Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Iris Greene
Seller: Honore S. David RT
Date: 09/27/13

Lindenridge Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Amy B. Gallant
Seller: Tofino Associates LLC
Date: 10/04/13

30 Sunrise Ave.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $325,311
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Sally Ann Washburn
Date: 09/25/13

65 Taylor St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Jocelyn A. Deangelis
Seller: Andrew J. Glace
Date: 10/04/13

BELCHERTOWN

426 Allen Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Jeremy D. Cushing
Seller: David G. Cushing
Date: 09/25/13

86 Amherst Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $249,000
Buyer: Michelle Stewart
Seller: Nerissa C. Hall
Date: 09/26/13

161 Federal St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Marion P. Moreau
Seller: Diane J. Morre
Date: 10/04/13

16 Jackson St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Diane J. Morre
Seller: Richard F. Conrad
Date: 10/04/13

63 Mountain View Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Kenneth J. Riley
Seller: Edward J. Sokolowski
Date: 09/26/13

N/A
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Lurene A. Grenier
Seller: Donald W. Tyrie
Date: 09/26/13

21 Shea Ave.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Mark D. Wilkins
Seller: Donald R. Besancon INT
Date: 09/24/13

154 South St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Michael T. Schmidt
Seller: Jacob A. Speaks
Date: 09/24/13

CHESTERFIELD

79 Willicutt Road
Chesterfield, MA 01012
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Eric A. Gougeon
Seller: Karen Higgins
Date: 10/03/13

CUMMINGTON

1 Swift River Road
Cummington, MA 01026
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Joshua R. Gamache
Seller: Elizabeth J. Wade
Date: 09/30/13

EASTHAMPTON

2 Autumn Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $349,900
Buyer: J. A. Fraser-Champagne
Seller: Czelusniak Custom Homes
Date: 10/01/13

8 Bayberry Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Lori D. Vaillancourt
Seller: Michael A. Forget
Date: 10/01/13

13 Broad St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $227,500
Buyer: Jose A. River
Seller: Krawiec, John, (Estate)
Date: 09/25/13

3 Carillon Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Bank Of America
Seller: Katherine L. Hruby
Date: 09/23/13

302 East St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Jennifer L. Young
Seller: Chad Alexander
Date: 09/26/13

151 Ferry St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $254,000
Buyer: Charles Bobala
Seller: Michael J. Dean
Date: 09/30/13

17 Florence Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $172,500
Buyer: Bethany Ryan
Seller: William F. Gruber
Date: 09/30/13

65 Hendrick St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $153,000
Buyer: Lisa M. Green
Seller: Lauren A. Burke
Date: 09/24/13

12 Lawson Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $209,000
Buyer: Richard D. Desimone
Seller: Michael Donnis
Date: 09/26/13

260 Loudville Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $262,000
Buyer: Mukund Feldman
Seller: John W. Richardson
Date: 10/02/13

117 Main St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Raymond C. Ledoux
Seller: Karel P. Guardado NT
Date: 09/27/13

144 Main St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Jacob A. Speaks
Seller: Connie S. Going
Date: 09/24/13

18 Oakdale Place
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Matthew J. Clark
Seller: Deborah A. Kapinos
Date: 09/25/13

44 Oliver St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Deborah L. Barr
Seller: Raymond A. Kelliher
Date: 09/27/13

21 Pinebrook Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $290,500
Buyer: Chase S. Hunter
Seller: Lori D. Vaillancourt
Date: 10/01/13

18 Pomeroy St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $213,000
Buyer: Rachael E. Barber
Seller: Joanne F. Staszko
Date: 09/23/13

6 Truehart Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $194,000
Buyer: James A. Sturges
Seller: Karen Bolduc
Date: 09/23/13

GOSHEN

105 Ball Road
Goshen, MA 01096
Amount: $174,000
Buyer: Thomas J. Camilleri
Seller: Jan M. Kozloski
Date: 09/27/13

GRANBY

5 Lakeview Ave.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: William H. Fournier
Seller: Paul J. Fortier
Date: 09/23/13

HADLEY

206 Middle St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: David J. Fill
Seller: 63 MKT Realty LLC
Date: 09/30/13

453 River Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $778,119
Buyer: Szawlowski Realty Inc.
Seller: S&J Land Trust LLC
Date: 09/25/13

2 Sylvia Heights
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Valley Building Co. Inc.
Seller: Dorothy T. Ruder
Date: 10/04/13

HATFIELD

6 Pleasant View Dr.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Scott M. Cox
Seller: Kovalski, John F., (Estate)
Date: 09/30/13

HUNTINGTON

147 Worthington Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $197,000
Buyer: Christopher L. Meyerhoff
Seller: Sean M. Brady
Date: 09/27/13

NORTHAMPTON

15 Claire Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $221,000
Buyer: Jennifer A. Daekins
Seller: Choquette, M. A., (Estate)
Date: 09/30/13

47 Dryads Garden
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $685,000
Buyer: Adam L. Zucker
Seller: Jay A. Breines
Date: 09/30/13

196 Federal St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $349,900
Buyer: Paul E. Gulla
Seller: David Kherdian
Date: 09/30/13

200 Federal St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: James V. White
Seller: Joan Barberich
Date: 09/27/13

49 Gothic St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $475,000
Buyer: Tragin Properties LLC
Seller: Lori Morgan
Date: 09/30/13

37 Henshaw Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $645,000
Buyer: Mary J. Prince
Seller: Thomas P. Lesley QPRT
Date: 09/27/13

90 Moser St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $508,500
Buyer: Stephen D. Hawley
Seller: Kent Pecoy & Sons Construction
Date: 09/30/13

534 North King St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $243,000
Buyer: Anthony G. Nardone
Seller: Lynn M. Wiles
Date: 10/01/13

52 Pencasel Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $187,500
Buyer: Norman S. MaCleod
Seller: Paila J. Crest
Date: 09/30/13

19 Woodmont Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: John Baldarelli
Seller: F.V. & M.A. Salvatore NT
Date: 10/04/13

SOUTH HADLEY

3 Birch Hill Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Linda E. Brennam
Seller: Ellen V. Murphy
Date: 09/24/13

85 Charon Terrace
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $272,000
Buyer: Nigel J. Alderman
Seller: Colleen A. Garvin
Date: 09/30/13

130 East St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $399,900
Buyer: Robert J. Pleasure
Seller: Robert J. Shevlin
Date: 09/27/13

17 Jewett Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Linda Knorr
Seller: W&Margaret Lavallee LT
Date: 10/01/13

70 Judd Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $268,500
Buyer: George Owen
Seller: Thomas J. Fitzell
Date: 09/27/13

29 Red Bridge Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: Steven G. Marsh
Seller: J. N. Duquette & Son Construction
Date: 09/25/13

38 San Souci Dr.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $348,000
Buyer: Derick B. Lamoureux
Seller: Jerome B. Brightman
Date: 09/30/13

8 Scott Hollow Dr.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Robert J. Shevlin
Seller: Edmund Babski
Date: 09/27/13

SOUTHAMPTON

3 Bluemer Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $218,000
Buyer: Joseph J. Fungaroli
Seller: Nancy Heidenreich
Date: 09/27/13

228 County Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $221,000
Buyer: John W. Richardson
Seller: Stanley Stochel
Date: 10/02/13

100 Fomer Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $327,000
Buyer: Michael Kent
Seller: Gary P. Shannon
Date: 09/30/13

11 Russellville Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Wendy J. Allen
Seller: Robert E. Hitchcock
Date: 09/26/13

WARE

1 Bellevue Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $165,429
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Chad Kenyon
Date: 10/02/13

45 Bond St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $142,000
Buyer: Andrea L. Nicholas
Seller: Osucha, Ann M., (Estate)
Date: 09/27/13

1 Briar Circle
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Belco Construction Co. Inc.
Seller: Hampden Bank
Date: 10/03/13

89 Church St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Robert Sorel
Seller: Alex S. Engelson
Date: 10/04/13

7 Demond Ave.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Gregory P. Desantis
Seller: Oberg, Therese A., (Estate)
Date: 09/30/13

33 Eagle St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Cameron M. Harwood
Seller: Belaska, Genevieve, (Estate)
Date: 10/04/13

WESTHAMPTON

288 Chesterfield Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $357,000
Buyer: Cynthia Crooks-Garica
Seller: Peter Scherff
Date: 10/04/13

185 Main Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Marguerite A. Robbins
Seller: Charles Ognibene
Date: 10/01/13

Back to Work?

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Region’s Construction Activity Is a Mixed Bag

R.J. Chapdelaine

R.J. Chapdelaine says he’s busy with both remodeling jobs and new homes, like this one going up in West Springfield.

In the post-recession world of construction, when jobs are few and far between, diversity is a good thing.
“We’re on the upswing. It was a pretty solid year, a lot of phone calls,” said A.J. Crane, operations manager at A. Crane Construction in Chicopee. “It’s nice for us that we’re kind of diverse; we don’t specialize in any one thing. We’re interested in quality more than anything.
“A lot of guys do just kitchens and baths, or just additions, or just houses,” he continued. “But we had a really diverse year. We were all over the map — a lot of commercial work, a lot of residential work.”
The general consensus among the builders BusinessWest spoke with is that housing is rebounding from the recession faster than commercial building, but that’s not true for every contractor.
“We’re actually doing a little more commercial, which is different for us,” Crane said. “It’s typically like 60-40 residential, and it’s the other way around this year. It’s not that we’re doing less residential; we’re just doing more commercial. But it doesn’t matter to us who the property owners are — commercial businesses, government, homeowners — we’re interested in doing the work.”
Joe Marois, president of Marois Construction in South Hadley, said his workload picked up this year, but the near horizon is less encouraging.
“So far, we’ve survived the year,” he told BusinessWest. “We’ve been very busy, but we have very guarded profits we have to be careful about, because there’s not a whole lot of foreseeable work right now. Things have slowed down a little bit; my contemporaries are saying the same thing.”
Paul Ugolini, president of Western Builders in Granby, is one of them.
“We’re in the same predicament — we’re having a good year, not bad, we’re paying the bills, but it looks like it’s going to slump off,” he noted. “The way this market is, there’s just not much commercial work out there. It seems like the colleges and universities aren’t spending too much money these days, and that’s a problem for us.”
However, he noted, “we do have some housing backlog. We’re going to be doing four buildings in Holyoke, and there’s some housing in Easthampton we’ll chase — but you still have to land it.”
As for the commercial market, it tends to lag behind single-family homes, Ugolini noted, and builders hope activity starts to perk up soon. “The way this business is, it’s been rough the last few years. It’s just supply and demand — there are a lot of contractors, but not a lot of work.”

Moving Along
Crane said he’s gotten mixed messages from fellow builders. “From what we’ve heard, people are very busy or very slow — there aren’t a lot of guys in between.”
One rising trend has to do with next-generation housing, he noted — “older people moving back in with their kids, kids moving back in with their parents. We just finished one of those up.”
This is more than a localized phenomenon, according to Jed Kolko, chief economist for Trulia Trends.
During the recession, he notes at truliablog.com, fewer households were created than normal. Typically, 1.1 million new households are added each year in the U.S., mostly due to population growth. However, from the first quarter of 2008 to the first quarter of 2011, only 450,000 new households were created annually. “Slower household growth means less demand for homes, so annual construction starts dropped during this period from a norm of 1.4 million to below 600,000. Most recently, only 521,000 households were created between the first quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013.”

Paul Ugolini

Paul Ugolini says his company has a residential backlog, but commercial projects remain frustratingly elusive.

A big part of this slowdown, he notes, is due to young people living with parents or doubling up with roommates rather than buying their own house. “Since most kids won’t live with their parents forever, these young adults represent pent-up demand for housing that the recovery should unleash. The problem is, the kids aren’t moving out yet.”
RJ Chapdelaine, president of Jos. Chapdelaine & Sons in East Longmeadow — which focuses largely on residential building and remodeling — said business is definitely on the upswing.
“Right now, we’re working on two new homes, and we’ve been working on quite a few additions and renovations,” he noted. “Our kitchen and bath renovations have been very solid, and we’re feeling as though things are heading in a more positive direction. We’re even anticipating starting a new 10-lot subdivision in East Longmeadow. We’ve had quite a lot of good feedback.”
Meanwhile, “I got three calls yesterday for new homes. That, to me, is a good sign — that people want to talk about new homes. It’s very refreshing. Hopefully, it’s a good sign; over the last few years, those calls were more rare, and the fact that we’re starting to get new-home calls and larger remodel jobs is nice.”
Chapdelaine credits a couple of colliding developments — an improving economy giving consumers confidence to make big purchases again, and still-low mortgage rates (and the fear that they won’t stay that low forever).
“I would say some of it is pent-up desire,” he said. “People have been sitting for awhile, and they’re starting to see the rates creep back up a little bit, and it puts them in a position where they feel they need to move because the rates are obviously still at historic lows, and they don’t want to see them creep up to where they were even two, three, five years ago. So they’re thinking it might be time to build or remodel.

Crisis of Confidence
Kolko notes, however, that the housing market has a long way to rebound, and it will — eventually.
“Jobs will help, but the job recovery for young people still has a long way to go,” he writes. “While more young adults are working now than a year ago, their employment rate is still much closer to the worst of the recession than to pre-recession levels. As late as mid-2008, 71% of adults ages 18-34 were employed. That dropped to a low of 65% in mid-2011 and has risen back only to 66.8%. But you don’t get a job one day and move out of mom and dad’s the next. It could still take years before young people have built up the savings and economic security to leave the nest.”
Meanwhile, the commercial sector is still feeling a distinct lack of security and confidence, Marois noted, partly driven by the chaos coming out of Washington, represented most recently by the federal shutdown, and lingering uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act, which will increasingly impact employers in 2014.
“You have to throw into the mix what’s going on in Washington,” he said. “The shutdown has had far-reaching effects, given the fact that we’ve got looming budget cuts, and the healthcare law is starting to look like it will be a problematic program to get initiated. I think it’s going to have an impact on everyone’s confidence going forward with projects. It’s affecting our psyche right now.”
All those factors, layered atop an economy that never returned to pre-recession levels, makes it difficult to generate building activity.
“I’m not too confident in the traditional way we used to do things,” Marois said. “Our way of thinking, running businesses and understanding the economy, seems to be different right now because it’s intermixed with uncertainty over new programs and new regulations. It’s a time like we’ve never seen before.”
In short, largely commercial builders are hoping that they soon begin to see the signs of life appearing in the housing-construction market.
“We’re pretty optimistic. Things seem to be a lot better than they were,” Chapdelaine said, echoing Crane’s perception as he added, “we hear there’s no middle ground; you’re either very busy or very slow. I’m glad to be on the busy side.”

Joseph Bednar can be reached at [email protected]

Tooth Tellers

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Baystate Dental, Craig Sweitzer & Co. Mark 30 Years of Growing Together

Dr. Kevin Coughlin (center), with Craig Sweitzer (right) and Sweitzer’s son, Michael

Dr. Kevin Coughlin (center), with Craig Sweitzer (right) and Sweitzer’s son, Michael, says a welcoming dental environment and state-of-the-art technology are both important elements in a dental practice’s design.

Craig Sweitzer’s company has built more than 75 medical and dental practices over the past 30 years. The first of those clients — Baystate Dental — is also the most recent.
BusinessWest recently sat down with both Sweitzer and Dr. Kevin Coughlin, owner of Baystate Dental, at the practice’s 10th location, which opened last week in a restored house in downtown Westfield. Craig Sweitzer & Co. has built the last nine of those offices, with two more planned for the near future, and the two men have shared what they call a rewarding professional partnership over the past three decades.
The story begins in 1983, when Coughlin was getting ready to take over Baystate Dental from its founders, Drs. Gabriel and Milton Auerbach.
“As they retired, I felt it was necessary to renovate and expand, and I knew what I wanted to do — I just didn’t know how it could be done and who could help me do that,” Coughlin said. At the time, Baystate Dental operated at just one site, on Main Street in Springfield.
“At the time, my dad, my father-in-law, and I attempted to renovate that initial practice, and realized we were out of our domain. We needed an expert contractor, someone we could trust and someone we could hopefully grow with over the years.”
He was introduced by a mutual friend to Sweitzer, who was in a similar position — that of wanting to broaden his business beyond residential projects and professional buildings.
“We did office renovations, and Kevin was the first medical job we did,” Sweitzer said. “It was fascinating. In a dental office, there’s so much plumbing and medical piping, mechanical piping, medical gases, X-rays — it’s so much more complex, and it keeps you thinking. It was a lot more fun — and it’s still fun 30 years later.”
He’s seen plenty of advances in medical-office construction over the years. “The equipment has changed. We no longer need to use lead-lined sheet rock, and everything is more gentle, more comforting for the patient, and less clinical-looking, although the technology has just advanced in leaps and bounds.”
Coughlin jokes that he might not have hired Sweitzer if he had realized just now inexperienced the builder was in the medical-dental field, but he’s glad he had no misgivings at the time.
“I immediately liked him, trusted him, and believed in him,” Coughlin said. “He set out with plans and designs to renovate that initial practice, with the goal that we wanted to give our patients not just a warm and wonderful atmosphere, but efficient, effective, state-of-the-art care in that welcoming atmosphere.
“With the combination of his building expertise and knowledge, and my knowledge of medicine and dentistry,” he continued, “we’re now pushing toward 12 dental practices in Western Mass.”

Family Ties
The history of Baystate Dental is the recent history of two families. When Joyce Mercadante was growing up in Agawam, her family befriended the Auerbach family; later, two of the Auerbach children, Gabriel and Milton, would go on to become dentists, and the Mercandante family became early patients of the new practice in Springfield.
Mercadante later married Ralph Coughlin and had two sons, whom the Auerbachs encouraged to enter the field of dentistry. After part-time and summer work in the Baystate Dental lab during high school and college, Kevin enrolled in the dental program at Tufts University School of Medicine. He returned to the region and the Auerbachs’ practice, gradually broadening his responsibilities, helping the practice expand into evening and Saturday hours.
After Coughlin took over the practice in 1983, he embarked on an ambitious expansion plan and, in 2003, added two partners in Drs. Gary Circosta and Matthew Haluch. The practice now employs 120 staff members, including 18 dentists, at its 10 locations, making it the largest private dental practice in the state.
Sweitzer’s emergence in the construction field started equally humbly. “I actually owned a furniture business before I graduated college — designing, building, and selling furniture in East Longmeadow,” he told BusinessWest. After that, he went to work for a general contractor for a couple of years before setting out on his own with small projects, mostly kitchens and bathrooms.
“That evolved to additions, which evolved to new homes,” he said. “That was fun, but after 15 houses, it’s just not as challenging anymore. And residential work is really susceptible to ups and downs in the economy.”
So he gradually moved into commercial work, particularly office construction, before trying his hand with medical facilities. Eventually, he left residential building behind completely. As a small company, “I really can’t do both and serve those customers. Building a house takes six months, and when a doctor calls us up and wants an office built, he wants it started next week, so we can’t say, ‘come back and see us in six months.’ So we went to all commercial.”

The new Westfield office

The new Westfield office is the first Baystate Dental practice to occupy a remodeled house.

His long-standing professional relationship with Coughlin has included building new dental facilities in Springfield, Belchertown, Chicopee, East Longmeadow, Longmeadow, Ludlow, West Springfield, Westfield, and Wilbraham. Baystate Dental’s other long-time partner is Patterson Dental, a national resource for equipment, supplies, and expertise in industry trends.
“With each project, we continue to find things to improve from the previous project,” Coughlin said. “And I trust him, so I don’t have to be there every week worrying, ‘is this getting done?’ It’s an enormous benefit to have that relationship, almost like a family member, where I don’t have to worry about it.”
Sweitzer agreed. “Our goal is to do the best possible project with the best possible products for the money. I know what Kevin wants; I don’t have to call him all the time. He trusts in me and gives me the confidence to make decisions I think are best for this practice.”
For example, at the new Westfield office, Sweitzer became concerned about the way the ceiling tiles in the operatories, or procedure rooms, reflected sound. Feeling that it created too loud an environment, he researched materials and softened the noise.
“I’m not always concerned about the best value or what’s easiest to build,” he said. In the case of the ceiling tiles, “we knew what we wanted, so it was easy for us to switch gears during construction without getting the architects or the designer involved in a big series of endless meetings.”

That’s a Mouthful
Coughlin said the dental public demands much more than it used to, both in technology and a pleasant practice environment.
“People want the best value, the best care, and the best service in the best surroundings,” he said. “But in the end, what they want is to trust their provider, and that comes from their first impression, what the facility looks like. Is it too glitzy, over the top, cold, and impersonal? Is it private?”
The look of a practice is just the beginning. “Thirty years ago, most practitioners wore no masks and gloves, no surgical scrubs. Infection control was almost non-existent,” he recalled. “Privacy matters, like with HIPAA, weren’t even an issue. Today, all of these things are not just important, but necessary.”
Sweitzer said the Westfield site reflects a commitment to both aesthetics and substance. “If you look in each of these operatories, the windows overlook a landscaped area, there’s soft music, everything is brand-new, extremely clean, extremely comfortable. Yet, behind the patient’s head is the most modern equipment imaginable — the most modern X-rays, medical gases … these operatories really do just about anything.”
Likewise, Baystate Dental has strived to do almost anything to get treatment to patients, providing services at home for non-ambulatory individuals and offering a broad range of sedation options even for routine treatments.
“Thirty-five percent of people refuse to see the dentist out of fear, and another 15% for financial reasons. That’s 50% of the marketplace that’s avoiding you,” Coughlin said. “By creating an efficient, effective environment and by offering these medical gases — oral sedation, inhalation sedation, intravenous sedation, or anesthesia — we can take these patients who have high anxiety and give them a level of care they don’t normally expect or get.”
He cited one boy with severe autism who was non-verbal and could not tolerate a normal dental setting and had to be sedated. “This young man hadn’t had dental care in 14 years. Who provides that care?”
But both Coughlin and Sweitzer couldn’t help but come back to the design of the new Westfield office — the first Baystate Dental practice in a renovated house, not a new building.
That wasn’t the original plan; the project was originally drawn up and approved as a new, three-story, 30,000-square-foot building with a footprint extending very close to Broad Street. But they decided a remodel of the original building was sufficient for the practice’s needs and blended much better with Westfield’s reconstructed downtown. “Everyone who goes by here, they love it,” Sweitzer said.
Added Coughlin, “I don’t think this detracts at all from the center of Westfield, and I think it actually adds to it. People know we could have done something else, but we took what I like to think is the higher ground.
“At least once a week,” he continued, “we get a nice personal letter from someone in this town I don’t know — hopefully they’ll become patients — who are thrilled with what we’ve done.”
“That’s where the fun of construction is,” Sweitzer added. “We’re not building a sterile high-rise with glass and concrete, but recreating something that you can really be proud of.”
Indeed, while state-of-the-art technology is critical, after 30 years and 10 offices — with more on the way — Coughlin doesn’t underestimate the power of a welcoming atmosphere.
“We have roughly 56,000 patient visits a year across all our locations, and we’ve never had anyone say anything but, ‘this is one of the nicest dental offices I’ve ever been in,’” he told BusinessWest. “That’s not just for the aesthetics of it, but the intangibles — the layout, the efficiency. I often get credit for it, but honestly, the credit should go to the construction company.”
As befits their mutually beneficial relationship, he and Sweitzer are happy to share the credit.

Joseph Bednar can be reached at [email protected]

Court Dockets

By
Court Dockets Departments

The following is a compilation of recent lawsuits involving area businesses and organizations. These are strictly allegations that have yet to be proven in a court of law. Readers are advised to contact the parties listed, or the court, for more information concerning the individual claims.

FRANKLIN SUPERIOR COURT
Amcor Inc. v. HI-DE Liners Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $96,491.28
Filed: 9/4/13

Kronenberger & Sons Restoration v. Greenfield Community College, et al
Allegation: Construction dispute regarding the Energy Neutral Greenhouse: $500,000
Filed: 8/16/13

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Aleksandr Chuduk v. Maxim Avraamov, Oleysa Avraamova, Konstantin Avraamov, AK Diagnostic, and Pilot Travel Centers, LLC
Allegation: While acting as business partner and accountant, Avraamov committed breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and negligence: $970,000
Filed: 8/28/13

Kevin Wales v. Ballard Truck Center, a/k/a Ballard Mack Sales and Services Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract, negligence in required repairs and maintenance, and breach of warranty: $175,000
Filed: 8/19/13

Monson Savings Bank v. Turbine Systems, LLC and Joseph and Kathleen Gendreau
Allegation: Default on commercial promissory note: $133,022.64
Filed: 8/8/13

Palatium Realty Inc. v. Berkshire Bank, Berkshire Insurance Group Inc., and Michael Smith
Allegation: Misrepresentation and breach of contract: $110,000
Filed: 8/9/13

273 State Street, LLC v. Saia Law Firm, LLC, et al
Allegation: Action for damages as a result of a breach of a lease agreement: $54,656.97
Filed: 8/22/13

HOLYOKE DISTRICT COURT
Marisol Marcano v. Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) and Raymond Zayas Serrano
Allegation: Unfair and deceptive insurance claims and failure to effectuate a prompt, fair, and equitable settlement: $24,999.99
Filed: 7/26/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
ABC Supply Co. Inc. v. Boardwalk Contractors and Thomas J. Dean
Allegation: Balance remaining on previous judgment: $6,447.52
Filed: 9/6/13

Employers Mutual Casualty Cos. v. ASG Seamle Gutters Inc.
Allegation: Failure to pay insurance premiums: $3,048
Filed: 8/12/13

Granite State Insurance Co. v. Nick’s Affordable Home Improvement
Allegation: Suit on non-payment of previous judgment: $37,185.23
Filed: 8/8/13

WESTFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Westfield v. New England Transit Sales Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract and breach of express and implied warranties regarding sale of bus: $7,570.84
Filed: 9/4/13

Robert Johnson v. Valley Motorsports Inc.
Allegation: Negligent maintenance of property causing trip and fall: $6,162.41
Filed: 9/11/13

Real Estate Transactions

By
Departments Real Estate

The following real estate transactions (latest avail­able) were compiled by Banker & Tradesman and are published as they were received. Only transactions exceeding $115,000 are listed. Buyer and seller fields contain only the first name listed on the deed.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

BERNARDSTON

43 Fox Hill Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: David R. Benard
Seller: Mark E. Snow
Date: 09/20/13

CONWAY

399 Bardwells Ferry Road
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: William D. Comeaux
Seller: John K. Manchester
Date: 09/19/13

105 Plain Road West
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $343,000
Buyer: Duane E. Rivard
Seller: Greenfield Savings Bank
Date: 09/12/13

DEERFIELD

3 Jones Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Scott D. Leclerc
Seller: Gabriel E. Josephs
Date: 09/20/13

GILL

143 Barney Hale Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $187,000
Buyer: Aaron A. Bishop
Seller: Timothy E. Parsons
Date: 09/19/13

GREENFIELD

57 Green River Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Kenneth S. Williams
Seller: John J. Denning
Date: 09/20/13

20 Pierce St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: Christopher J. Dejoy
Seller: Dejoy, James J., (Estate)
Date: 09/17/13

32 Woodleigh Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $220,500
Buyer: Paul M. Curtiss
Seller: James Gruber
Date: 09/18/13

HEATH

223 Number 9 Road
Heath, MA 01346
Amount: $152,500
Buyer: Jack A. Gougeon
Seller: Dorothy L. Liberator
Date: 09/10/13

LEYDEN

731 Greenfield Road
Leyden, MA 01301
Amount: $210,808
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: Louis J. Manzelli
Date: 09/11/13

MONTAGUE

153 Industrial Blvd.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $4,110,000
Buyer: Lightlife Foods Realty LLC
Seller: Conagra Foods Packaged
Date: 09/17/13

7 Ivy St.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Nick T. Ladue
Seller: Gary L. Dacunha
Date: 09/09/13

201 Old Sunderland Road
Montague, MA 01351
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Elinor S. Wright
Seller: Michael G. Schwartz RET
Date: 09/11/13

35 Park St.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $138,500
Buyer: William E. Swihart
Seller: David W. Tuttle
Date: 09/12/13

NEW SALEM

25 Orange Road
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $168,560
Buyer: Linda A. Chatfield
Seller: Cindy A. Gaudet
Date: 09/19/13

NORTHFIELD

34 Hamilton
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: Dennis J. Lupien
Seller: Thomas E. Walker
Date: 09/09/13

10 Myrtle St.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $257,000
Buyer: John Keith
Date: 09/13/13

199 Main St.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: C. S. Lewis Foundation
Seller: Northfield Mt. Hermon School
Date: 09/18/13

84 Warwick Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $277,000
Buyer: Jason R. Besecker
Seller: Saint Nicholas RT
Date: 09/20/13

ORANGE

200 Dana Road
Orange, MA 01364
Amount: $150,702
Buyer: Christian TR
Seller: Mary J. Putnam
Date: 09/12/13

SHUTESBURY

36 Schoolhouse Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Jeanne B. Brown
Seller: Zulma C. Garcia
Date: 09/10/13

WARWICK

611 Orange Road
Warwick, MA 01378
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: Michael J. Mankowsky
Seller: Justin Gale
Date: 09/12/13

WHATELY

52 Long Plain Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $283,000
Buyer: Michael F. Strong
Seller: Joanne A. Glaszcz
Date: 09/16/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

75 Belvidere Ave.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $138,000
Buyer: Kenneth Modzelesky
Seller: Ferraro, Eleanor I., (Estate)
Date: 09/20/13

129 Florida Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: Theodore F. Waterman
Seller: Carlo J. Imelio
Date: 09/12/13

25 Haskell St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $192,000
Buyer: Kevin L. Muldrew
Seller: Diane M. Douglas
Date: 09/09/13

116 Liberty St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Justin Rainville
Seller: Sally A. Wilson
Date: 09/13/13

982 North St. Ext
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $223,000
Buyer: Oleysa Mudrenko
Seller: M. T. Grella
Date: 09/20/13

12 Parker St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $166,500
Buyer: Joseph A. Fratianni
Seller: Leona S. Morgan
Date: 09/10/13

41 Peros Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $179,900
Buyer: Shannon G. Schickler
Seller: David G. Bruneau
Date: 09/18/13

BLANDFORD

Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Springfield Water & Sewer
Seller: William J. Winn
Date: 09/20/13

BRIMFIELD

10 North Main St.
Brimfield, MA 01010
Buyer: Christopher D. Adams
Seller: Carolyn H. Adams
Date: 09/12/13

155 Old Palmer Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: Shaun T. Cadoret
Seller: Vicki Staback
Date: 09/09/13

176 Palmer Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Thomas P. Dowling
Seller: Philip E. Baldwin
Date: 09/13/13

CHICOPEE

270 Carew St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $164,900
Buyer: James M. Whalen
Seller: Rachel M. Johnson
Date: 09/13/13

384 Chicopee St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $173,000
Buyer: Jason W. Kolodziej
Seller: Donald C. Pinkerman
Date: 09/17/13

105 Crestwood St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Ramon Rodriguez
Seller: Janet Joseph
Date: 09/13/13

45 Francis St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $185,200
Buyer: Miguel J. Fernandes
Seller: Daniel R. Bernashe
Date: 09/12/13

77 Haven Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Denise N. Cogman
Seller: Robert F. Majkowski
Date: 09/20/13

140 Hendrick St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Evan T. Berneche
Seller: Mark P. Sobieraj
Date: 09/20/13

34 Reedstone Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $127,500
Buyer: Andrew M. Brunelle
Seller: Nancy H. Labrie
Date: 09/20/13

21 Walsh St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Tanya E. Roman
Seller: William E. Brennan
Date: 09/13/13

188 Wildermere St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Briana L. Sabola
Seller: David H. Dejordy
Date: 09/12/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

70 East Circle Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $263,000
Buyer: Thomas R. Reilly
Seller: Deborah Ellison
Date: 09/12/13

66 Sanford St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Jason J. Pelzek
Seller: Albert W. Suchcicki
Date: 09/13/13

HAMPDEN

30 Erica Circle
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Michael Cerasuolo
Seller: Thomas McLaughlin
Date: 09/18/13

211 South Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $625,000
Buyer: Sherry Himmelstein
Seller: Charles E. Ballou
Date: 09/17/13

HOLLAND

1 Island Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $229,000
Buyer: Kevin A. Polak
Seller: Dennis R. Bernashe
Date: 09/13/13

HOLYOKE

141 Cabot St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $275,300
Buyer: Bayview Loan Services LLC
Seller: Adar Investments LLC
Date: 09/18/13

7 Franklin St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $164,200
Buyer: Bayview Loan Services LLC
Seller: Adar Investments LLC
Date: 09/18/13

6 George Frost Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $269,000
Buyer: Daniel P. Gaughan
Seller: Richard Henderson
Date: 09/19/13

12 Gilman St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $141,500
Buyer: Milagros Morales
Seller: FHLM
Date: 09/19/13

366 High St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $217,500
Buyer: Bayview Loan Services LLC
Seller: Adar Investments LLC
Date: 09/18/13

370 Maple St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $275,300
Buyer: Bayview Loan Services LLC
Seller: Adar Investments LLC
Date: 09/18/13

157 Norwood Ter.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $159,000
Buyer: Alan D. Hogan
Seller: Nancy E. Twohig
Date: 09/18/13

163 Saint Jerome Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $181,000
Buyer: David Guzman
Seller: Alfred T. Healy
Date: 09/20/13

76 Sheehan Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $131,000
Buyer: Leslie A. Gross
Seller: Cassidy, James J., (Estate)
Date: 09/19/13

337 Westfield Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $150,200
Buyer: Rose D. Summers
Seller: Shawn L. O’Brien
Date: 09/16/13

14 Woodbridge St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Bonnie M. Stein
Seller: Scott Stein
Date: 09/13/13

LONGMEADOW

253 Burbank Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Peter V. Iellamo
Seller: Jane S. Vivenzio
Date: 09/17/13

126 Deepwoods Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Jason S. Zieba
Seller: Raymond A. Smith
Date: 09/20/13

395 Frank Smith Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Judith A. Shor Kronick RET
Seller: Venkata A. Komanduri
Date: 09/16/13

43 Hillside Ter.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $174,932
Buyer: Thomas J. Costello
Seller: Pauline C. Sample
Date: 09/13/13

587 Laurel St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $296,000
Buyer: Qian Jiang
Seller: Charles A. Toye
Date: 09/10/13

168 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Brian M. Douthwright
Seller: Alan L. Puckett
Date: 09/16/13

6 Massachusetts Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $252,000
Buyer: Desmond Mullally
Seller: David R. Panico
Date: 09/20/13

29 Natanis Path
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $412,500
Buyer: Pondview RT
Seller: Thomas H. Roger
Date: 09/20/13

10 Prynne Ridge Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $587,500
Buyer: David P. Fontaine
Seller: Steven R. Balut RET
Date: 09/19/13

65 Shaker Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $229,000
Buyer: Mary E. Cavallo
Seller: Hugh J. O’Donnell
Date: 09/20/13

90 Williston Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Andrea B. Tarpey
Seller: Gary R. Hooper
Date: 09/20/13

223 Wolf Swamp Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: Barbara S. Thomas
Seller: Paul Gonnelli
Date: 09/16/13

LUDLOW

13 Ashley St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Duane Marchand
Seller: Robert G. Proulx
Date: 09/13/13

76 Deroche Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $165,500
Buyer: Ryan J. Linton
Seller: Georgette Dangelantonio
Date: 09/12/13

81 Erin Lane
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $318,000
Buyer: Robert G. Proulx
Seller: Marc G. Platanitis
Date: 09/13/13

392 Fuller St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Margaret M. Dovalina
Seller: Leonard J. Brennan
Date: 09/18/13

50 Tait St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Michael J. Kozaczka
Seller: Francis S. Kozaczka
Date: 09/20/13

MONSON

19 Ayers Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Karl L. Winkler
Seller: J. G. Kaiser
Date: 09/20/13

17 Bethany Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $137,357
Buyer: Warka Associates LLC
Seller: Douglas Warka
Date: 09/18/13

74 Bethany Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Andrew B. Johnston
Seller: Margaret Bedore
Date: 09/13/13

200 Bumstead Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Daniel R. Harwood
Seller: David P. Stonge
Date: 09/13/13

9 Macomber Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $173,000
Buyer: Nelson M. Cleod
Seller: Stanley Czaplicki
Date: 09/13/13

MONTGOMERY

86 Pineridge Road
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $393,000
Buyer: Mark A. Nelson
Seller: Robert F. Hayes
Date: 09/13/13

PALMER

1045 Circle Dr.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $202,550
Buyer: Jonathan P. Dumas
Seller: Joanne L. Lemanski
Date: 09/10/13

43 Glenn St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Chelsea L. Wahlers
Seller: Luis F. Pedro
Date: 09/20/13

26 King St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $302,000
Buyer: Joshua P. Menard
Seller: Camille A. Sacco
Date: 09/12/13

3129 Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $143,900
Buyer: Allen D. Skowyra
Seller: Michael Donskoy
Date: 09/17/13

668 Old Warren Road
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: ITW RT
Seller: Claire L. Kennett
Date: 09/11/13

SPRINGFIELD

75 Anniversary St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $118,449
Buyer: David A. Grodt
Seller: Mirian D. Detres
Date: 09/13/13

98 Briggs St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $212,750
Buyer: Damion A. Harper
Seller: Jessica A. Carter
Date: 09/19/13

254 Centre St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Deveron E. Plummer
Seller: Jose R. Pabon
Date: 09/11/13

16 Cooper St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $183,000
Buyer: Mark P. Brodeur
Seller: Megan E. Downey
Date: 09/10/13

90 Corcoran Blvd.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $119,000
Buyer: John C. Doyle
Seller: Thomas J. Lucia
Date: 09/20/13

123 Edendale St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $139,900
Buyer: Antonio M. Taveras
Seller: Misty Way LLC
Date: 09/19/13

74 Francis St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $138,900
Buyer: Diana Nunez
Seller: James W. Fiore
Date: 09/20/13

70 Gold St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $167,000
Buyer: Cynthia Kelly
Seller: Ellen M. Kearney
Date: 09/13/13

48 Greenlawn St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: John J. Lampro
Seller: Anthony M. Wiesner
Date: 09/16/13

39 Griffin St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $129,900
Buyer: Omayra Gonzalez
Seller: Douglas M. Labonte
Date: 09/13/13

90 Hillside Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $139,900
Buyer: Mary T. Critelli
Seller: Russell P. Demears
Date: 09/20/13

195 Kerry Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Devere K. Glenn
Seller: Viktor Savonin
Date: 09/12/13

184 Lancashire Road
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $115,500
Buyer: Victor M. Colon
Seller: FHLM
Date: 09/20/13

113 Littleton St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $132,626
Buyer: Bank of America
Seller: Luis Semprit
Date: 09/20/13

354 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Main St. Indian Orchard NE
Seller: Joseph Pafumi
Date: 09/10/13

161 Mayflower Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $117,500
Buyer: Peter J. Avodulos
Seller: Steven M. McCombe
Date: 09/11/13

28 Meredith St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Miguel A. Maysonet
Seller: Carmine Cardaropoli
Date: 09/20/13

54 Oak Hollow Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Stephen E. Johnson
Seller: Wright, Helen R., (Estate)
Date: 09/13/13

14 Parkside St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $148,690
Buyer: Nationstar Mortgage LLC
Seller: William Flood
Date: 09/12/13

151 Pineywoods Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $190,555
Buyer: Michael D. Olkin
Seller: Michael Rothberg
Date: 09/17/13

725 Plumtree Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Michael J. Houle
Seller: James A. Giguere
Date: 09/12/13

17 Rosemont St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Sharon L. Mekal
Seller: James Niedbala
Date: 09/11/13

251 Springfield St.
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Alexandra S. Fernandes
Seller: Michaela S. Fernandes
Date: 09/12/13

1400 State St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $3,859,362
Buyer: Vibra Healthcare RE Co. 2
Seller: KND Real Estate 16 LLC
Date: 09/09/13

905 Sumner Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $258,000
Buyer: Christopher J. MacPherson
Seller: Delisle Management Inc.
Date: 09/13/13

114 Sylvan St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $137,500
Buyer: Nicole Zimmerman
Seller: Vincent L. Dimauro
Date: 09/10/13

58 Thorndyke St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $177,900
Buyer: Yamilette B. Madho
Seller: Peter R. Quinby
Date: 09/16/13

22 Weaver Road
Springfield, MA 01107
Amount: $174,500
Buyer: Jeffrey J. Gross
Seller: Martha M. Parrish
Date: 09/12/13

169 Whittum Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $142,500
Buyer: Kara A. Pelczarski
Seller: Ledoux, Florence A., (Estate)
Date: 09/12/13

83 Wollaston St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $141,144
Buyer: Deustche Bank
Seller: Pedro Ramos
Date: 09/12/13

SOUTHWICK

43 Hudson Dr.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: 43 Hudson Drive LLC
Seller: Gerald A. Mongeau
Date: 09/10/13

8 Matthews Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Devan Lewis
Seller: Michael Daigneau
Date: 09/13/13

4 Patriots Way
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $351,000
Buyer: Jeffrey D. Dunham
Seller: Michael Cerasuolo
Date: 09/18/13

16 Patriots Way
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $358,000
Buyer: Michael Daigneau
Seller: William W. Welliver
Date: 09/13/13

WESTFIELD

32 East Bartlett St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: James J. Ash
Seller: Timothy Flouton
Date: 09/17/13

39 Jessie Ln
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $293,461
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Jeffrey T. Ahern
Date: 09/13/13

142 Mullen Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $247,000
Buyer: Daniel A. Jarvis
Seller: Elaine M. Roy
Date: 09/16/13

19 Northridge Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Jessica A. Carter
Seller: Paul J. Fiorentino
Date: 09/19/13

308 Northwest Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Peter A. Ruszala
Seller: John Pitoniak
Date: 09/16/13

2 Oak Ter.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Daryl T. Alston
Seller: Suzanne C. Risko
Date: 09/18/13

24 Reed St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Aspen Properties Group LLC
Seller: Randy R. Woodis
Date: 09/19/13

91 Riverside Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $136,000
Buyer: Daniel J. Coffey
Date: 09/17/13

225 Sackett Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $220,500
Buyer: Northwest Realty LLC
Seller: Marci A. Kramer
Date: 09/16/13

13 Sackett St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Vitaliy Dubovoy
Seller: Bank Of New York Mellon
Date: 09/20/13

41 Saint Dennis St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $211,500
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Shawn Barrett
Date: 09/17/13

1134 Southampton Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $950,000
Buyer: Cumberland Farms Inc.
Seller: BDMG LLC
Date: 09/19/13

WILBRAHAM

2148 Boston Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $725,000
Buyer: F9 Properties LLC
Seller: J. P. Rentals Inc.
Date: 09/09/13

25 Brookmont Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Christopher N. Russell
Seller: Karen G. Reinhart
Date: 09/10/13

1 Cooley Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Christopher Goodrow
Seller: Paul J. Cambo
Date: 09/12/13

11 Grassy Meadow Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Miriam J. Siegel
Seller: Robert T. Sartwell
Date: 09/16/13

48 Manchonis Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $152,900
Buyer: Kyle B. Stremel
Seller: Dean K. Farrell
Date: 09/16/13

152 Manchonis Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $183,000
Buyer: Douglas S. Mellor
Seller: Jean Chouinard
Date: 09/12/13

4 Nokomis Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $176,000
Buyer: Susan D. Hucul
Seller: John E. Paull
Date: 09/13/13

551 Stony Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $176,500
Buyer: Sarah E. Rowe
Seller: Paula F. Collins
Date: 09/12/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

55 Beech Hill Road
West Springfield, MA 01030
Amount: $348,000
Buyer: Charles J. Glinski
Seller: Beech Hill Construction Inc.
Date: 09/17/13

226 Circle Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $189,900
Buyer: Patricia A. Wright
Seller: Clark, Joan V., (Estate)
Date: 09/20/13

1501 Elm St.
Amount: $405,000
Buyer: Joseph E. Stevens
Seller: Richard S. Harty
Date: 09/19/13

50 Gay Ter.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Shaban Bajrami
Seller: John J. O’Connell
Date: 09/16/13

9 Hampden St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $152,000
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Donald W. Kurtz
Date: 09/11/13

89 Janet St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Matthew A. Kirk
Seller: James L. Miller
Date: 09/16/13

555 Main St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Maher M. Awkal
Seller: International Christ Center
Date: 09/20/13

71 Pheasants Xing
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $485,000
Buyer: Marion Guzik
Seller: John D. Shea
Date: 09/20/13

1267 Riverdale St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $1,000,499
Buyer: Pride Convenience Inc.
Seller: Hall Properties Co. Inc.
Date: 09/13/13

126 Upper Beverly Hills
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $149,000
Buyer: A. L. Cebollero-Laureano
Seller: Gildersleeve, Carmilla, (Estate)
Date: 09/11/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

17 Fairfield St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Julia M. Alexander
Seller: GF&S I Allen FT
Date: 09/17/13

130 Fearing St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Yankhua Fan
Seller: KH Amherst PE LLC
Date: 09/10/13

246 Middle St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $290,000
Buyer: Shi Yin
Seller: Donald E. Catlin
Date: 09/20/13

9 Research Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $675,000
Buyer: Ronald J. Laverdiere
Seller: Stephen M. Pause
Date: 09/10/13

South East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: James W. Hoerle
Seller: Thompson, Charles, (Estate)
Date: 09/16/13

908 South East St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Margaret A. Riley
Seller: Carolyn F. Thompson
Date: 09/16/13

38 South Orchard Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $377,000
Buyer: Jason G. Lrizarry
Date: 09/13/13

173 Strong St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $288,000
Buyer: Joshua C. Klein
Seller: Warren G. Graham
Date: 09/18/13

26 Taylor St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $283,000
Buyer: Richard A. Beaudoin
Seller: Columbia University NY
Date: 09/12/13

BELCHERTOWN

21 Brandywine Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $283,000
Buyer: Godong Zhang
Seller: Kenneth J. Riley
Date: 09/17/13

35 Clark St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Kerri M. Guimond
Seller: Glenn B. Hastings
Date: 09/20/13

82 Clark St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Karma Sherab
Seller: Leslie RET
Date: 09/13/13

11 Metacomet St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $332,000
Buyer: Robert L. Buehler
Seller: Sandra L. Russell
Date: 09/13/13

16 Oakwood Dr.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $238,000
Buyer: Marian M. MacCurdy
Seller: Thomas E. Sullivan
Date: 09/09/13

210 Sabin St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Brooke R. Rose
Seller: Ronald L. Helinski
Date: 09/19/13

CHESTERFIELD

75 South St.
Chesterfield, MA 01012
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Jonathan E. Church
Seller: Audrey J. Pomeroy
Date: 09/18/13

EASTHAMPTON

21 Chapman Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Anthony F. Gleason
Seller: Mapam 1 LLC
Date: 09/11/13

12 David Richardson Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: Ian A. Michael
Seller: Mark A. Nelson
Date: 09/12/13

42 Division St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Jacob Schrader
Seller: Lynn M. Laprade
Date: 09/19/13

21 Federal St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: John Knybel
Seller: Dennis Mullen
Date: 09/18/13

112 Loudville Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $264,600
Buyer: Robert D. Marmor
Seller: Robert R. Hornbuckle
Date: 09/13/13

175 Main St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Linda S. Samano LT
Seller: Autumn Properties LLC
Date: 09/20/13

70 Maple St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Laura R. Penney
Seller: Steven R. Baer
Date: 09/20/13

16 Meadowbrook Dr.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Julie G. Parks
Seller: Gregory C. Hurlburt
Date: 09/16/13

14 Paul St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $217,500
Buyer: Stanley F. Diamond
Seller: Beth A. McGowan
Date: 09/13/13

19 Plain St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Aaron C. Scott
Seller: Leonard P. Sansoucy
Date: 09/19/13

27 Spring St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Sequoia McDowell
Seller: Yvette B. Campbell
Date: 09/20/13

GRANBY

41 High St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Matthew J. Coyle
Seller: Karen V. Tosoni
Date: 09/09/13

93 South St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $179,900
Buyer: Charisima R. Som
Seller: Marie P. Witter
Date: 09/10/13

147 Taylor St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Elizabeth K. Bishop
Seller: Normand R. Deprey
Date: 09/13/13

HADLEY

6 Maple Ave.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $223,332
Buyer: George H. Dragon
Seller: Arthur H. Dragon
Date: 09/19/13

8 Morning Star Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $355,000
Buyer: Tjomaws C. Braden
Seller: Kent A. Haake
Date: 09/20/13

HATFIELD

115 Elm St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Nan Wiegersma
Seller: Hatfield Village LLC
Date: 09/09/13

76 Elm St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $291,000
Buyer: Matthew Zerneri
Seller: Judith A. Strong
Date: 09/11/13

15 North St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Thomas J. Wickles
Seller: Francisco Fred
Date: 09/18/13

HUNTINGTON

11 Pleasant St.
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $115,479
Buyer: USA HUD
Seller: UB Properties LLC
Date: 09/10/13

NORTHAMPTON

42 Beacon St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $810,000
Buyer: Aaron H. Hexdall
Seller: Tor A. Krogius
Date: 09/11/13

60 Blackberry Lane
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Kyle R. Maurer
Seller: Syed Z. Iqbal
Date: 09/18/13

68 Blackberry Lane
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Patrick Livingston
Seller: Robert A. Callander TR
Date: 09/20/13

20 Bridge Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $591,196
Buyer: Larry S. Rankin
Seller: Bridge Road LLC
Date: 09/20/13

25 Dewey Ct.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $460,500
Buyer: Nancy W. Denig
Seller: Gross, Joan, (Estate)
Date: 09/10/13

5 Grove Ave.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Joan Anderson
Seller: Thane E. Gustafson
Date: 09/20/13

29 Howes St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $282,000
Buyer: Valerie Nelson
Seller: Helen M. Boynton RET
Date: 09/12/13

3 Mont View Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $354,000
Buyer: Carolyn T. Oppenheim
Seller: Christopher D. Golden
Date: 09/09/13

86 Moser St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $485,937
Buyer: Eric R. Loehr
Seller: Kent Pecoy & Sons Construction
Date: 09/16/13

32 Powell St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $204,000
Buyer: Caleb D. Langer
Seller: Riverbank NT
Date: 09/13/13

115 Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $223,193
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: John W. Ten
Date: 09/20/13

22 Sherman Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Robin T. King
Seller: Jerald R. Bouchard
Date: 09/13/13

11 Village Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $2,810,250
Buyer: 11 Village Hill LLC
Seller: New Harmony Props. LLC
Date: 09/18/13

PLAINFIELD

322 South Central St.
Plainfield, MA 01070
Amount: $139,000
Buyer: Peter H. Merriam
Seller: Liebe Coolidge
Date: 09/16/13

SOUTH HADLEY

12 Lexington Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Zachary P. Dennett
Seller: Philip Chmiel
Date: 09/10/13

52 Lyman St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $169,000
Buyer: Arthur L. Stoltz
Seller: Elizabeth K. Bishop
Date: 09/13/13

321 North Main St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $219,900
Buyer: Adam C. Garand
Seller: Suzanne M. Bara
Date: 09/19/13

53 Red Bridge Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $449,900
Buyer: Jacie S. Mesheau
Seller: Michael A. Girard
Date: 09/19/13

12 Spring Mdws.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $369,900
Buyer: Marcia M. Burkavage
Seller: Tamra A. Lambert
Date: 09/20/13

14 Spring St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $149,900
Buyer: Reuel E. Colon Sr.
Seller: Shannon J. Bilodeau
Date: 09/16/13

24 Viviani St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Michael T. Netkovick
Seller: Paul P. Petell
Date: 09/16/13

44 Wildwood Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $296,000
Buyer: Andrea M. Malapanis
Seller: Charles E. Hills
Date: 09/19/13

SOUTHAMPTON

30 Bissonnette Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $399,900
Buyer: Wayner R. Everett
Seller: F&G Development Corp.
Date: 09/12/13

74 Pleasant St.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $142,500
Buyer: Robert Barcomb
Seller: Michael J. Kent
Date: 09/12/13

60 Rattle Hill Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $402,500
Buyer: Joseph H. Vishaway
Seller: Julie G. Parks
Date: 09/16/13

WARE

80 Aspen St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: William Belisle
Seller: Paul A. Lavallee
Date: 09/13/13

81 Maple Ct.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $166,300
Buyer: Alissa M. Roy
Seller: James W. Hunter
Date: 09/20/13

25 Mountainview Dr.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Melissa Boudreau
Seller: Ksen, Henry J., (Estate)
Date: 09/20/13

158 North St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $123,500
Buyer: Lisa Terry-Jakshitits
Seller: Michelle R. Wojcik
Date: 09/20/13

17 Sherwin St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $117,449
Seller: Gregory Brunell
Date: 09/17/13

WESTHAMPTON

51 Loudville Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Bobbie L. Kenna
Seller: David E. Melrose
Date: 09/16/13

31 Southampton Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $520,000
Buyer: Thomas M. Cleary
Seller: Pool FT
Date: 09/17/13

WILLIAMSBURG

6 Nichols Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Michael G. O’Connell
Seller: Erica Verrillo
Date: 09/16/13

Doing Business as Certificates

By
DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of October 2013.

AGAWAM

Images & Artistry
46 Simpson Circle
Constance Bennett

The B’s Hive
289 Springfield St.
Elizabeth Atwood

Western Mass Sound System
33 Bridge St.
Oksana Mozolevskya

CHICOPEE

Exterior Construction
706 Construction St.
Anthony Hairston

Greenski Contracting
188 Irene St.
Jeremy Greene

NBC Construction
44 Baltimore Ave.
Thomas Byrnes

Shelleigh’s Handcrafted Designs
35 Stephens St.
Michelle L. Fass

Sparkle
15 School St.
Wioleta Plewa-Knurowski

White Orchid Nail Spa
1979 Memorial Ave.
Christy Le

EAST LONGMEADOW

Emeritus at East Longmeadow
741 Parker St.
ELM Care Group

Hawley’s Auto Repair
345 Shaker Road
Robert Hawley

National Camping Travelers
9 Somerset St.
David L. Fant

Party City
440 North Main St.
Stormie R. McGee

Silverson Machines Inc.
355 Chestnut St.
Harold Rothman

Smith’s Beauty Supply of Mass. Inc.
217 Shaker Road
Cheryl D. Pusateri

GREENFIELD

Allure
10 Fiske Ave.
10 Fiske Ave, LLC

Autozone
430 Federal St.
Autozone Northeast Inc.

Carol’s Shoe Design
333 Hope St.
Caroline Opiyo

Environmental Labs
5 Adams Road
Alan Rulewich

Franklin St. Barbers
97 Franklin St.
Stephen Prondecki

Loss Prevention Technologies
12 Riddell St.
Weslee Sicard

HOLYOKE

Fruity Bubble
50 Holyoke St.
Kelvin Zheng

J.C. Penney Optical
1018 Whiting Farm Road
Carmen J. Nepa III

La Barberia
153 Sargeant St.
Emmanuel Montano

O’Brien’s Auto
40 Sanderson Hill
Edward O’Brien Jr.

The Umbrella Tank
67 Lincoln St.
Raymond J. Larrow

SPRINGFIELD

Adam’s New Age Construction
101 Samuel St.
Adam Bosquet

Adjutricem Placement
184 Maple St.
Tonya L. Hall

Advance Stores Company
1100 St. James Ave.
Bonita Johnston

Affordable Airport Car
16 Malcolm Road
Ervin E. Carelock

Ahmet and Ersin Inc.
27 St. James Blvd.
Ersin Cinarlik

Ainong Lin
2946 Main St.
Ainong Lin

Amberpath
299 Carew St.
Gerald Nash

Arya Shnap
58 Crestmont St.
Arya Shnap

ATA Preservation
178 Nottingham St.
Andrew T. Allen

Bernard J. Harvey
47 Lester St.
Bernard J. Harvey

BTTR Booths
80 Teakwood Road
Jakub Lakomski

Calisasimone
160 Maple St.
Calisa S. Kennedy

Campus Convenience
463 State St.
Jason Alvarado

Pafumi State Inspection
390 Main St.
Joseph M. Pafumi

Peoples Pawn and Jewelry
363 Worthington St.
William B. Miller

Pioneer Wealth Advisors
1500 Main St.
Arthur J. Colello

R & B Communications
26 Hutchinson St.
Syed Razzaq

R.M.L. Construction
47 Elwood Dr.
Michael Lucier

Ricos Truck Repair
45 Penacook St.
Ricardo Emmanuel

Right at Home
1350 Main St.
Nicholas W. Colgin

Rockville Records
13 Akron Place
Anthony Dywane

Rodger’s Painting Services
144 Stuart St.
Rodger E. Goodhind

Sabor Pentecostal
2 Chestnut St.
Sasha L. Ramos

Shanghai Ichiban
882 Sumner Ave.
Yun Chen

Sophie A. Cieplik
259 Main St.
Sophie A. Cieplik

Sports Cut Barber Shop
1129 State St.
Miguel M. Soto

Stop-N-Save
172 White St.
Mohammed Sheikh

Stylistas Traveling Boutique
34 Leatherleaf Circle
Christine Michelle

Sunrise Grill
439 Main St.
Loan T. Champagne

Teresa Mama’s & Samms
137 State St.
Teresa A. Williams

Tip Top Nails & Spa
818 Boston Road
Trang Dam

TJ Productions
239 Ashland Ave.
Thomas J. Sliney

UPA’S Trucking Services
26 Sterling St.
Jose A. Sanchez

Varady & Associates
50 Dutchess St.
Robert S. Varady

Vibra Hospital
1400 State St.
Vibra Hospital

Waffles on Wheels
1577 Carew St.
Jeanne M. O’Brien

Well Done Maid Services
22 Eldridge St.
Jalin Mobley

Western Mass Cars
95 Laconia St.
Kevin J. Conway

WESTFIELD

Aube Interiors
12 Vincent Dr.
Sonia Aube

Davi Nails
141 Springfield St.
Nam Tran

GG’s Auto Repair Inc.
988 Southampton Road
Nicole Cruz-Cansino

Kathy’s Nails Salon & Spa
85 Main St.
Van Ly

Lorena Sienko Real Estate
24 Leaview Dr.
Lorena A. Sienko

Mitchell’s Dry Wall
16 Harrison Ave.
Bruce D. Mitchell

Olga’s Tayloring
81 Woodmont St.
Olga Bucalov

R.G.L.
329 Montgomery Road
Ruth Haley

Smart Style
141 Springfield Road
Rebecca Rheault

Tatro’s Mobile Mechanic Services Inc.
16 George St.
Gregg Tatro

That Guy Delivers
154 Little River Road
Cheyne Ordonio

Westfield Yoga Center
94 North Elm St.
Thomas J. Swochak

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Brothers Covers
239 Western Ave.
Kenneth Labelle

Designs for Everyday Living
215 Ely Ave.
Nicole A. Towsley

Distinctive Works
31 Lowell St.
Realm Mercier

ITS Service and Support
94 Janet St.
Matthew A. Raymond

Longhorn Steakhouse
1105 Riverdale St.
Rare Hospitality

RTCEU
1111 Elm St.
Jon J. Jaspensan

The Olive Garden
919 Riverdale St.
GMRI Inc.

Incorporations

By
Departments Incorporations

The following business incorporations were recorded in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties and are the latest available. They are listed by community.

AGAWAM

Frank & Luigi Realty Inc., 944 Springfield St., Agawam, MA 01001. Frank Dibenedetto, 74 Dunsany Dr., Longmeadow, MA 01106. Real estate.

AMHERST

Marknell Inc., 215 Sunset Ave., Amherst, MA 01002. Marcos Kleinerman, same. Transportation of goods of any type and nature.

CHICOPEE

I-V Associates Inc., 10 Center St., Suite 211, Chicopee, MA 01013. Brian O’Neil, same. Provide specialty nursing services.

Melkor Inc., 10 Center St., Suite 404, Chicopee, MA 01013. David Melnichuk, 74 South West St., Feeding Hills, MA 01030. Business marketing.

EAST OTIS

Linden Graphics LTD, 12 Norton Road Extension, East Otis, MA 01029. Michael Linden, same. Engage in printing.

EASTHAMPTON

Ensemble Musica Humana Inc., 283 B East Street, Easthampton, MA 01027. Lidia Chang, 1859 River St., Hyde Park, MA 02136. To provide education as to the history of early music.

HOLYOKE

Iglesia Del Dios Soberano Inc., 28 Brown Ave., Holyoke, MA 01040. Diana Pares, same. Purpose and mission is to preach the gospel.

LEE

Greenhouse Dispensary Inc., 80 Run Way, Lee, MA 01238. Michael Kulig, 563 Laurel St., Lee, MA 01238. Promote cooperative research and educational projects between scholars.

NORTHAMPTON

C Care Inc., 7 Armory St., Northampton, MA 01061. Donald Chase, 39 Timber Ridge Road, West Springfield, MA 01089. Promote and support activities for the treatment of debilitating medical conditions.

Farm House Compassionate Care Inc., 13 Trumbull Road, Northampton, MA 01060. Susan Stubbs, same. Healing and wellness.

Hampshire Health Inc., 58 Belmont Ave., Northampton, MA 01060.Brian Paul Foote, same. Activities in furtherance of medical, educational, civic, and charitable purposes.

PITTSFIELD

A N General Painting Services Inc., 202 Dewey Ave., Apt. 6, Pittsfield, MA 02101. Antonio Nascimento, same. Painting services.

Forever Xia Inc., 26 Dunham Mall, Pittsfield, MA 01201. Al Ming Pan, same. Restaurant.

SOUTH HADLEY

Ackrion Inc., 2 Linda St., South Hadley, MA 01075. Kristpher Pacunas, 121 Aldrich St., Belchertown, MA 01075. Design, manufacture, and sell external wifi communication and processes devices.

SPRINGFIELD

365 Freight Solutions Inc., 1 Florentine Gardens, Springfield, MA 01108. Cecilio Cunningham, 3543 Woodlake Road, Hephzibah, GA 30815. Transportation of goods and related services.

Ahmetandersin Inc., 27-29 St. James Blvd. Springfield, MA 01104. Ahmet Citlak, 81 Bluebird Circle, Ludlow, MA 01056. Pizza and sandwich shop.

Building In Construction Inc., 72 Washburn St., Springfield, MA 01107. Angel Alicea, same. Rehabilitation center.

Changmu Corporation, 1655 Boston Road, Springfield, MA 01129. Chang Ho Kim, Same, clothing retail.

EVA Transportation Inc., 35 Princeton St., Springfield, MA 01109. Andres Rosario, same. Transportation services for seniors and disabled.

Hampden Care Facility, 180 Orange St., Springfield, MA 01108, Springfield. Tom Gallagher, 34 Mountain View St., Springfield, MA 01108. Promote patient care, encourage medical research, and support community development.

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Dunamis Express Inc., 20 Hampden St., West Springfield, MA 01089. Elmira Usmonova, same. Transportation.

J Paier Carpentry Inc., 265 Lancaster Ave., West Springfield, MA 01089. Joseph Paier, same. Carpentry and related services.

The Super 60

By
Sections Super 60
Depth, Diversity Define the 2013 List of Top-performing Companies

Super60logoJeffrey Ciuffreda says there are a number of encouraging signs to take from this year’s roster of Super 60 companies — the 24th compilation of the region’s top-performing businesses.
For starters, there are the numbers — for both revenue and revenue growth — posted by the winners, said Ciuffreda, president of the Affiliated Chambers of Commerce of Greater Springfield, which has presented the program since 1990. He noted that companies in the first category averaged more than $35 million last year and combined for more than $1 billion. Meanwhile, one-third of the companies in the revenue-growth category averaged in excess of 50% growth over the past three years, and the average for those 30 honorees was 49%.
These figures speak to how well the area business community has rebounded from the deep and lengthy recession that began in 2008, said Ciuffreda, noting that another positive sign is the diversity represented by this year’s list, which includes everything from colleges to technology companies; healthcare facilities to manufacturers; financial-services firms to retailers.
The number of small, and in some cases very small, businesses on the list is also encouraging, he noted, adding that perhaps the most noteworthy quality when it comes to this year’s roster is the number of first-timers; there are seven, the largest group of newcomers in several years.
“To get new folks on there shows that maybe over the past few years, when people had their heads down and were just surviving, there were some businesses that were experiencing pretty good progress,” he told BusinessWest, adding that their participation in Super 60 shows a desire to tell their story. “It’s a good sign for the economy when you can get new businesses that can exhibit that kind of growth.”
Still another source of encouragement is the large number of companies — 12 in all — that qualified for both categories, said Ciuffreda, noting that this stat indicates that some larger companies have been experiencing strong growth.
The 2013 edition of the Super 60 will be feted at the program’s annual luncheon on Oct. 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Chez Josef in Agawam. The event will feature introductions of the winners and include a presentation on a unique business venture in the region — Simple Diaper and Linen, a growing enterprise that has mastered the technique of eco-friendly laundering.
Principals Angie Gregory and Jessica Montagna will detail the company’s profound growth and unique business model, and thus continue a pattern of letting emerging entrepreneurs take center stage at the Super 60 lunch. In recent years, Paul Kozub, founder of V-One Vodka, and Stanley Kowalski, founder of FloDesign, have been keynoters.
Meanwhile, for this issue, BusinessWest spotlights the 60 winners (snapshot profiles begin on page 21) in both the total-revenue and revenue-growth categories.
Topping the former is Springfield College, led by new president Mary-Beth Cooper, followed by Noonan Energy Corp., a residential heating and cooling company, and Whalley Computer Associates Inc., a Southwick-based technology-solutions firm.
Whalley is one of six companies in the category to also qualify for the revenue-growth list. The others are Gandara Mental Health, Joseph Freedman Co. Inc., Maybury Associates, Millennium Power Services Inc., and Tighe & Bond.
Topping the revenue-growth category (where there are actually 31 winners)  is Mahan Slate Roofing Co. Inc., which specializes in slate and copper roofing for residential, institutional, and commercial structures, followed by Paragus IT, the Hadley-based outsourced IT solutions firm, and Troy Industries Inc., a U.S. government contractor that designs and manufactures small-arms components and accessories.
Troy was one of six in that category to also qualify for the total-revenue list. The others are ABLE Machine Tool Sales Inc., the Futures Health Group, LLC, NUVO Bank, Specialty Bolt & Screw Inc., and Titan USA Enterprises Inc.
To be considered, companies must be based in Hampden or Hampshire counties or be a member of the ACCGS, have revenues of at least $1 million in the last fiscal year, be an independent and privately owned company, and have been in business at least three full years. Companies are selected based on their percentage of revenue growth over a full three-year period or total revenues for the latest fiscal year.
For more information regarding the Super 60 or to make reservations for the luncheon, call (413) 755-1313 or order online at www.myonlinechamber.com.  Tickets cost $50 for ACCGS members and $70 for non-members.

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]

TOTAL REVENUE

* Indicates company qualifed in both categories

1. Springfield College
263 Alden St., Springfield
(413) 748-3000
www.springfieldcollege.edu
Mary-Beth Cooper, President
Founded in 1885, Springfield College is a private, independent, coeducational, four-year college offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs with its Humanics philosophy — educating students in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service to others.

2. Noonan Energy Corp.
86 Robbins Road, Springfield
(413) 734-7396
www.noonanenergy.com
Ted Noonan, President
Founded by Timothy Noonan in 1890, the fifth-generation energy company is now led by Ted Noonan, and installs, replaces, maintains, and upgrades heating and cooling systems throughout the Pioneer Valley.

3. Whalley Computer
Associates Inc. *
One Whalley Way, Southwick
(413) 569-4200
www.wca.com
John Whalley, President
WCA is a locally owned family business that has evolved from a hardware resale and service group in the ’70s and ’80s into a company that now focuses on lowering the total cost of ownership of technology and productivity enhancement for its customers. Whalley carries name-brand computers as well as low-cost performance compatibles.

Aegis Energy Services Inc.
55 Jackson St., Holyoke
(800) 373-3411
www.aegisenergyservices.com
Lee Vardakas, Owner
Founded in 1985, Aegis Energy Services is a turn-key, full-service provider of combined heat and power systems (CHPs) that generate heat and electricity using clean, efficient, natural-gas-powered engines. These modular CHP systems reduce a facility’s dependence on expensive utility power, reduce energy costs, and reduce one’s carbon footprint.

American International College
1000 State St., Springfield
(800) 242-3142
www.aic.com
Vincent Maniaci, President
The 128-year-old private, coeducational, liberal-arts school is interracial, interfaith, and international. One of the keystones of the AIC experience is the opportunity to interact with students from many different backgrounds. The college is organized into schools of Arts, Education, and Sciences; Business Administration; Health Sciences; and Continuing Education.

Associated Electro-Mechanics Inc.
185 Rowland St., Springfield
(800) 288-4276
www.aemservices.com
Elayne Lebeau, Owner/CEO
Associated Electro-Mechanics is a diversified, one-stop industrial sales and service center servicing the New England region and beyond, with a variety of industrial repair and rebuilding services.

The Association for Community Living
220 Brookdale Dr., Springfield
(413) 732-0531
www.theassociationinc.org
Barbara Pilarcik, Executive Director
For 60 years, the Association For Community Living has been creating opportunities, building relationships, and improving lives of children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families. The agency’s caring and experienced workforce empowers individuals with developmental disabilities to live with dignity, bringing fulfillment, community, and valuable relationships into their lives.

Baystate OB/GYN Group Inc.
2 Medical Center Dr., #206, Springfield
(413) 794-8484
www.bogg.com
dr. Howard Trietsch, managing partner
Caring for patients for more than 25 years, Baystate Ob/Gyn Group Inc. offers experienced care for pregnancy, gynecology, menopause, and surgical gynecology for women from teens through the elder years at four office locations in the region.

Braman Chemical Enterprises
147 Almgren Dr., Agawam
(413) 732-9009
www.braman.biz
Gerald Lazarus, President
Braman has been serving New England since 1890, using state-of-the-art pest-elimination procedures for commercial and residential customers. The company has offices in Agawam, Worcester, and Lee, as well as Hartford and New Haven, Conn.

Bridgeport National Bindery Inc.
662 Silver St., Agawam
(413) 789-1981
www.bnbindery.com
Bruce Jacobsen, Executive Vice President
A full-service bindery with on-demand book-printing capabilities, BNB offers a wide variety of binding styles and professional rebinding services, including binding for libraries, pre-binding, textbooks, editions, and conservation. The company also offers digitization, the process of reformatting a print item into an electronic format.

Charter Oak Insurance and Financial Services Co.
330 Whitney Ave., Holyoke
(413) 374-5430
www.charteroakfinancial.com
Peter Novak, General Agent
A member of the MassMutual Financial Group, Charter Oak been servicing clients for 127 years. The team of professionals serves individuals, families, and businesses with risk-management products, business planning and protection, retirement-planning and investment services, and fee-based financial planning.

City Tire Company Inc.
25 Avocado St., Springfield
(413) 737-1419
www.city-tire.com
Peter Greenberg, President
Brothers Peter and Dan Greenberg, the third generation of a family-owned business founded in 1927, have grown the business to 11 locations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The company offers one-stop shopping for tires of all shapes and sizes and a full complement of maintenance and repair services.

Commercial Distributing Co. Inc.
46 South Broad St., Westfield
(413) 562-9691
www.commercialdist.com
Richard Placek, Chairman
Founded in 1935 by Joseph Placek, Commercial Distributing Company is a family-owned and operated business servicing more than 1,000 bars, restaurants, and clubs, as well as more than 400 package and liquor stores. Now in its third generation, the company continues to grow through the values established by its founder by building brands and offering new products as the market changes.

The Dennis Group, LLC *
1537 Main St., Springfield
(413) 746-0054
www.dennisgrp.com
Tom Dennis, CEO
The Dennis Group offers complete planning, design, architectural, engineering, and construction-management services. The firm is comprised of experienced engineering and design professionals specializing in the implementation of food-manufacturing processes and facilities.

Environmental Compliance Services Inc.
588 Silver St., Agawam
(413) 789-3530
www.ecsconsult.com
Mark Hellstein, CEO
For more than 25 years, ECS has specialized in environmental site assessments; testing for asbestos, lead, indoor air quality, and mold; drilling and subsurface investigations; and emergency-response management.

Gandara Mental Health Inc. *
147 Norman St., West Springfield
(413) 736-8329
www.gandaracenter.org
Dr. Henry East-Trou, CEO
Focusing on the Latino/Hispanic community, Gandara Center provides substance-abuse recovery, mental-health, and housing services for men, women, children, adolescents, and families throughout the Pioneer Valley.

Joseph Freedman Co. Inc. *
115 Stevens St., Springfield
(888) 677-7818
www.josephfreedmanco.com
John Freedman, President
Founded in 1891, the company provides industrial scrap-metal recycling, specializing in aluminum, copper, nickel alloys, and aircraft scrap, and has two facilities in Springfield — a 120,000-square-foot indoor ferrous facility and a 60,000-square-foot chopping operation.

Delaney Restaurant Inc. / The Log Cabin
500 Easthampton Road, Holyoke
(413) 535-5077
www.logcabin-delaney.com
Peter Rosskothen, President
The Delaney House restaurant offers 13 private-themed rooms for any special occasion, with seating for up to 260. It offers two dining options — fine dining and the more casual Mick. The Log Cabin Banquet & Meeting House offers banquet facilities for weddings, showers, anniversaries, engagement parties, bar/bat mitzvahs, business meetings, holiday parties, and other events.

Marcotte Ford Sales
1025 Main St., Holyoke
(800) 923-9810
www.marcotteford.com
Bryan Marcotte, President
The dealership sells new Ford vehicles as well as pre-owned cars, trucks, and SUVs, and features a full service department. Marcotte has achieved the President’s Award, one of the most prestigious honors given to dealerships by Ford Motor Co., on multiple occasions over the past decade.

Maybury Material Handling *
90 Denslow Road, East Longmeadow
(413) 525-4216
www.maybury.com
John Maybury, President
Since 1976, Maybury Material Handling has been designing, supplying, and servicing all types of material-handling equipment throughout New England. Maybury provides customers in a wide range of industries with solutions to move, lift, and store their parts and products.

Millennium Power Services Inc. *
79 Mainline Dr., Westfield
www.millenniumpower.net
(413) 562-5332
Michael Pellegrini, President
Founded in 2000, Millennium Power Services is a full-service valve-repair shop and manufacturer of new valve parts. With a fleet of mobile machine shops, the company offers on-site service throughout the U.S., which allows customers to monitor their jobs, and also offers emergency valve service both at customer sites and in shops located in Massachusetts, Maine, and Florida.

PC Enterprises d/b/a Entre Computer
138 Memorial Ave., West Springfield
(413) 736-2112
www.pc-enterprises.com
Norman Fiedler, CEO
Entre assists organizations with procuring, installing, troubleshooting, servicing, and maximizing the value of technology. In business since 1983, it continues to evolve and grow as a lead provider for many businesses, healthcare providers, retailers, and state, local, and education entities.

Poly-Metal Finishing Inc.
1 Allen St # 218, Springfield
(413) 781-4535
www.poly-metal.com
Jason Kudelka, President
Poly-Metal Finishing Inc. has served the metalworking industry for more than three decades and specializes in providing the aerospace, military, and com­mercial sectors with complete anodic services: sulfuric anodizing, color anodizing, chromic, hardcoat, polylube pro­cessing, chemical conversion of aluminum, and pre-bond coatings.

Rediker Software Inc.
2 Wilbraham Road, Hampden
(800) 213-9860
www.rediker.com
Richard Rediker, President
Rediker software is used by school administrators across the U.S. and in more than 100 countries, and is designed to meet the student-information-management needs of all types of schools and districts.

Rocky’s Hardware Inc.
40 Island Pond Road, Springfield
(413) 781-1650
www.rockys.com
Rocco Falcone II, President
With locations throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, the family-run business founded in 1926 is a fully stocked, convenient source for not only typical hardware-store items but also a line of goods for the home, yard, and garden.

Sarat Ford Lincoln
245 Springfield St., Agawam
(413) 789-5400
www.saratford.com
Jeff Sarat, President
Founded in 1929 by John Sarat Sr., Sarat Ford has become the largest Ford dealership in Western Mass., and today, grandson Jeff Sarat leads the company. The full-service dealership includes a state-of-the-art body-shop facility, and a new, 10,000-square-foot expansion offers a 24-bay service center that houses a $1 million parts inventory featuring Ford, Motorcraft, Motorsport, and a variety of other specialty manufacturers.

Spectrum Analytical Inc.
11 Almgren Dr., Agawam
(413) 789-9018
www.spectrum-analytical.com
Hanibal Tayeh, CEO
For more than a decade, Spectrum Analytical Inc. has provided quantitative analysis of soil, water, and, more recently, air samples, as well as petroleum products. Consulting firms, industries, municipalities, universities, and the public sector are among the constituencies that make up the client list.

Tighe & Bond Inc. *
53 Southampton Road, Westfield
(413) 562-1600
www.tighebond.com
David Pinsky, President
Launched in 1911, Tighe & Bond specializes in environmental engineering, focusing on water, wastewater, solid-waste, and hazardous-waste issues, and provides innovative engineering services to public and private clients around the country and overseas.

United Personnel Services Inc.
1331 Main St., Springfield
(413) 736-0800
www.unitedpersonnel.com
Patricia Canavan, President
United provides a full range of staffing services, including temporary staffing and full-time placement, on-site project management, and strategic recruitment in the Springfield, Hartford, and Northampton areas, specializing in administrative, professional, medical, and light-industrial staff.

W.F. Young Inc.
302 Benton Dr., East Longmeadow
(800) 628-9653
www.absorbine.com
Tyler Young, CEO
This family-run business prides itself on offering a variety of high-quality products that can effectively improve the well-being of both people and horses with its Absorbine brands.

REVENUE GROWTH

* Indicates company qualifed in both categories

1. Mahan Slate Roofing Co. Inc.
P.O. Box 2860, Springfield
(413) 394-3513
www.mahanslate.com
John Mahan, Vice President
While Mahan Slate Roofing does not install asphalt shingle roofing or commercial flat roofing, they do specialize in beautiful and lasting slate and copper roofing for residential, institutional, municipal, and commercial structures. Mahan also has a full sheet-metal shop, which allows the company to produce a wide range of copper products including custom gutters and downspouts, and it designs snow-guard systems, often a much-needed accessory for slate roofs.

2. Paragus IT
84 Russell St., Hadley
(413) 587-2666
www.paragusit.com
Delcie Bean IV, President
While still in high school, Delcie Bean founded Paragus IT in 1999, first under the name Vertical Horizons and then Valley ComputerWorks. The name Paragus, short for asparagus, one of Hadley’s most famous agricultural products, has grown dramatically as an outsourced IT solution for area clients. From information technology solutions to CMR-17 compliance to EMR implementation, the Paragus experts in computer systems and information technology provide business computer service, computer consulting, information-technology support, and other proactive services to small and medium-sized businesses.

3. Troy Industries Inc. *
151 Capital Dr., West Springfield
(413) 788-4288; (866) 788-6412
www.troyind.com
Steve Troy, CEO
Troy Industries was founded on the principle of making reliable, innovative, over-engineered products that function without question when lives are on the line. All products are American-made and designed to perform flawlessly under intense battle conditions. The choice of special ops, law enforcement, and war fighters worldwide, Troy Industries is a leading U.S. government contractor that designs and manufactures innovative, top-quality small-arms components and accessories and complete weapon upgrades.

ABLE Machine Tool Sales Inc. *
800 Silver St., Agawam
(413) 786-4662
www.ablemts.com
Alan Lockery, President
ABLE Machine Tool Sales distributes some of the world’s finest machine tools, but it also offers clients the Able Metrology Tech Center, providing measurement tools to suit manufacturing-inspection requirements. ABLE’s experienced sales staff and service technicians are given extensive training, and the company is factory-authorized to assist with mechanical and electrical repairs, preventive maintenance programs, and employee-training programs.

Adam Quenneville Roofing and Siding
160 Old Lyman Road, South Hadley
(413) 536-5955
www.1800newroof.net
Adam Quenneville, CEO
Adam Quenneville offers a wide range of residential and commercial services, including new roofs, retrofitting, roof repair, roof cleaning, vinyl siding, replacement windows, and the no-clog Gutter Shutter system. The company earned the 2010 BBB Torch Award for trust, performance, and integrity.

Advance Welding
47 Allston Ave., West Springfield
(413) 734-4544
www.theperfectweld.com
Christopher Kielb, President
Since 1978, Advance Welding has served its clients with high-quality welding, brazing, and metal fabrication with state-of-the-art facilities and more than 100 years of combined welding experience. The company recently added 6,000 square feet of new facilities and actively participates as role models to young people who may someday seek a career in welding, by showing that the manufacturing industry still thrives in America.

Aegenco Inc.
55 Jackson St., Springfield
(413) 746-3242
Spiro Vardakas, President
Aegenco, an energy-conservation consulting firm, has grown steadily since its inception in 2005.

REVENUE GROWTH
* Indicates company qualifed in both categories

1. Mahan Slate Roofing Co. Inc.
P.O. Box 2860, Springfield
(413) 394-3513
www.mahanslate.com
John Mahan, Vice President
While Mahan Slate Roofing does not install asphalt shingle roofing or commercial flat roofing, they do specialize in beautiful and lasting slate and copper roofing for residential, institutional, municipal, and commercial structures. Mahan also has a full sheet-metal shop, which allows the company to produce a wide range of copper products including custom gutters and downspouts, and it designs snow-guard systems, often a much-needed accessory for slate roofs.

2. Paragus IT
84 Russell St., Hadley
(413) 587-2666
www.paragusit.com
Delcie Bean IV, President
While still in high school, Delcie Bean founded Paragus IT in 1999, first under the name Vertical Horizons and then Valley ComputerWorks. The name Paragus, short for asparagus, one of Hadley’s most famous agricultural products, has grown dramatically as an outsourced IT solution for area clients. From information technology solutions to CMR-17 compliance to EMR implementation, the Paragus experts in computer systems and information technology provide business computer service, computer consulting, information-technology support, and other proactive services to small and medium-sized businesses.

3. Troy Industries Inc. *
151 Capital Dr., West Springfield
(413) 788-4288; (866) 788-6412
www.troyind.com
Steve Troy, CEO
Troy Industries was founded on the principle of making reliable, innovative, over-engineered products that function without question when lives are on the line. All products are American-made and designed to perform flawlessly under intense battle conditions. The choice of special ops, law enforcement, and war fighters worldwide, Troy Industries is a leading U.S. government contractor that designs and manufactures innovative, top-quality small-arms components and accessories and complete weapon upgrades.

ABLE Machine Tool Sales Inc. *
800 Silver St., Agawam
(413) 786-4662
www.ablemts.com
Alan Lockery, President
ABLE Machine Tool Sales distributes some of the world’s finest machine tools, but it also offers clients the Able Metrology Tech Center, providing measurement tools to suit manufacturing-inspection requirements. ABLE’s experienced sales staff and service technicians are given extensive training, and the company is factory-authorized to assist with mechanical and electrical repairs, preventive maintenance programs, and employee-training programs.

Adam Quenneville Roofing and Siding
160 Old Lyman Road, South Hadley
(413) 525-0025
www.1800newroof.net
Adam Quenneville, CEO
Adam Quenneville offers a wide range of residential and commercial services, including new roofs, retrofitting, roof repair, roof cleaning, vinyl siding, replacement windows, and the no-clog Gutter Shutter system. The company earned the 2010 BBB Torch Award for trust, performance, and integrity.

Advance Welding
47 Allston Ave., West Springfield
(413) 734-4544
www.theperfectweld.com
Christopher Kielb, President
Since 1978, Advance Welding has served its clients with high-quality welding, brazing, and metal fabrication with state-of-the-art facilities and more than 100 years of combined welding experience. The company recently added 6,000 square feet of new facilities and actively participates as role models to young people who may someday seek a career in welding, by showing that the manufacturing industry still thrives in America.

Aegenco Inc.
55 Jackson St., Springfield
(413) 746-3242
Spiro Vardakas, President
Aegenco, an energy-conservation consulting firm, has grown steadily since its inception in 2005.

American Pest Solutions Inc.
169 William St., Springfield
(413) 781-0044
www.413pestfree.com
Robert Russell, President
For nearly 100 years, American Pest Solutions has been taking care of families and business owners to keep their properties free from ants, bedbugs, rodents, roaches, termites, and other harmful pest infestations. By utilizing products and pest-treatment solutions designed to minimize impacts on the surrounding environment, American takes an ecologically sensitive approach to pest control for the environmentally concerned client.

Axia Insurance & Affiliates
933 East Columbus Ave., Springfield
(413) 788-9000
www.axiagroup.net
Michael Long, CEO
“AXiA” translates from Greek to mean ‘value, capability, merit, and worthiness’; it’s Axia Insurance’s philosophy of doing business. Representing several carriers for commercial clients, Axia also represents other personal-insurance companies specifically for MassMutual employee services, but can service to anyone for personal lines.

Con-Test Analytical Laboratory
39 Spruce St., East Longmeadow
(413) 525-2332
www.contestlabs.com
Thomas Veratti Sr., Founder
Established in 1984, Con-Test provides environmental consulting and testing services to a variety of clients throughout Western Mass. The laboratory-testing division originally focused on industrial hygiene analysis, but rapidly expanded to include numerous techniques in air analysis, classical (wet) chemistry, metals, and organics, and has the capability for analyzing nearly all water, air, soil, and solid materials.

Dynamic Dock & Door Inc.
64 Lowell St., West Springfield
(413) 731-1114
www.dynamic-dock-door.com
Bret Leveillee, Vice President
Dynamic Dock and Door is a complete materials-handling company specializing in loading-dock equipment, overhead doors, storage systems, and energy conservation. Providing companies across New England and New Jersey for more than 20 years with quality overhead door and loading-dock equipment, installation, and service, the company has recently added installation, sales, and service of traditional commercial man doors to its product and service mix.

FIT Solutions
25 Bremen St., Springfield
(413) 733-6466
www.fitsolutions.us
Jackie Fallon, President
Since 2004, FIT Solutions has been partnering with clients, from small-business owners who have only a few IT needs to large companies that have small IT departments, to provide the best candidates for a variety of IT positions. Meeting with the hiring manager, FIT Solutions determines the exact qualifications and skills needed, as well as the personality traits desired in order to find candidates that fit an array of technology-based positions. FIT Solutions now serves both the Massachusetts and Connecticut markets.

Fletcher Sewer & Drain Inc.
824a Perimeter Road, Ludlow
(413) 547-8180
www.fletcherseweranddrain.com
Teri Marinello, President
Since 1985, Fletcher Sewer & Drain has provided service to homeowners as well as municipalities and construction companies for large pipeline jobs from Western Mass. to Southern Conn. From unblocking kitchen sinks to replacing sewer lines, this woman-owned company keeps up-to-date with all the latest technology, from high-pressure sewer jetters to the newest camera-inspection equipment.

The Futures Health Group, LLC *
136 Williams St., Springfield
(800) 218-9280
Peter Bittel, CEO
The Futures Health Group provides special-education and clinical services and management to 25,000 students and individuals. Bittel has more than 35 years of clinical and executive leadership experience in the areas of special education, rehabilitation, and developmental disabilities.

The Gaudreau Group
1984 Boston Road, Wilbraham
(413) 543-3534
www.gaudreaugroup.com
Jules Gaudreau, President
A multi-line insurance and financial-service agency established in 1921, the Gaudreau Group combines the traditional service philosophy of an agency with the talents of a dynamic marketing organization. With the expertise and resources that enable clients to respond to an ever-changing economic environment, the agency offers a broad range of insurance and financial products from basic life, home, and auto insurance to complex corporate services, employee benefits, and retirement plans.

GMH Fence Co. Inc.
15 Benton Dr., East Longmeadow
(413) 525-3361
www.gmhfence.com
Glenn Hastie, Owner
Serving the Western Mass. area for more than over 20 years, GMH Fence Co. is one of largest and most respected fence companies in the region. The fencing contractor offers quality service and fence installations from a selection of wood, aluminum, steel, and vinyl fencing that are durable and virtually trouble-free for residential, commercial, and industrial fencing requests.

Janice Yanni, DDS, PC
180 Westfield St., West Springfield
(413) 739-4400
www.yanniorthodontics.com
Dr. Janice Yanni, Owner
It’s never too early or too late to think about improving a smile, and Yanni Orthodontics has a mission to make all their patients smile. Dr. Janice Yanni specializes in orthodontic treatment for children, teens, and adults with offices in West Springfield as well as Tolland, Conn., using the latest in technology and a variety of treatment options, including Invisalign, Invisalign Express, Incognito, Six Month Smiles, and traditional braces.

Lattitude
1338 Memorial Ave., West Springfield
(413) 241-8888
www.lattitude1338.com
Jeff Daigneau, Owner
Executive chef and owner Jeff Daigneau opened Lattitude in 2007 and offers a unique, continually changing menu, based on local, seasonal product and his own classically trained talent for inimitable cuisine. The recent addition of a large outdoor patio-bar area for dining and live music will complement new interior expansions, including a new, 80-seat banquet room. Lattitude offers private, on-site events as well as off-site catering for 10 to several hundred people.

Market Mentors, LLC
1680 Riverdale St., West Springfield
(413) 787-1133
www.marketmentors.com
Michelle Abdow, Principal
A full-service marketing firm, Market Mentors handles all forms of marketing, including advertising in all mediums, media buying, graphic design, public relations, and event planning.

NetLogix Inc.
181 Notre Dame St., Westfield
(413) 586-2777
www.netlgx.com
Marco Liquori, President
NetLogix offers a wide range of IT services, including equipment sales; managed network services and remote monitoring; network design, installation, and management; network security and firewalls; disaster-recovery and business-continuity services; VoIP; wi-fi; and more.

NUVO Bank & Trust Co. *
1500 Main St., Springfield
(413) 787-2700
www.nuvobank.com
M. Dale Janes, CEO
Chartered in 2007, NUVO is an independent, locally owned bank that provides deposits, residential and commercial loans, and cash-management services for both personal-banking and business-banking needs.

O’Connell Professional Nurse Service Inc.
14 Bobala Road, Suite 1B, Holyoke
(413) 533-1030
www.opns.com
Francis O’Connell, President
For more than two decades, O’Connell Professional Nurse Service Inc., (O’Connell Care at Home and Healthcare Staffing) has grown to deliver a range of home-health and staffing services across the Pioneer Valley. Services range from nursing care and geriatric healthcare management to advocacy and transportation.

Powervestors, LLC
55 Jackson St., Holyoke
(413) 536-1156
www.aegisenergyservices.com
Spiro Vardakas, Owner
Powervestors provides services in power-generating equipment installation throughout the region.

R & R Industries Inc.
195 Rocus St., Springfield
(413) 733-2118
www.randrind.com
Bruce Robinovitz, President
Family-owned and operated since 1957, R & R Industries is a full-service metal and auto recycler serving Western Mass. and Northern Conn., providing recycling and container services to commercial, industrial, and residential customers.   The company also purchases all ferrous and non-ferrous metals at market prices and supplies hard-to-find auto parts for older models.

Robert F. Scott Co. Inc.
467 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow
(413) 567-7089
Leonard Rising III, President
Robert F. Scott Co. Inc. (known as Longmeadow Garage) is a locally owned and operated, full-service gasoline and automotive service station. Its staff includes ASE-certified technicians well-versed in all makes and models.

Specialty Bolt & Screw Inc. *
235 Bowles Road, Agawam
(413) 789-6700
www.specialtybolt.com
Alan Crosby, CEO
Founded in 1977, Specialty Bolt & Screw Inc. is a distributor of innovative fastener solutions. The company has engineering resources on staff to help determine the optimum fastener for each application, and utilizes state-of-the-art technology along with more than 30 years of experience to help clients achieve their objectives.

Titan USA Enterprises Inc. *
140 Baldwin St., West Springfield
(888) 482-6872
www.titanman.com
Ralph Colby, CEO
For almost four decades, Titan USA Enterprises has served industrial distributors as a manufacturer of premium-quality, solid-carbide, high-speed steel and cobalt cutting tools.

United Industrial Services Inc.
120 Almgren Dr., Agawam
(413) 789-0896
www.unitedindustrialinc.com
Tony Reopel, Vice President
From the simplest hand truck to the most sophisticated conveyor systems and in-plant racking layouts, United Industrial Services has been providing material handling solutions for every size of business for more than 30 years. The company supports sales, leasing, rentals, parts, and services for all forms of industrial mechanical needs, and offers OSHA experts to provide guidelines for safe operation of every machine sold.

Universal Plastics Corp. *
75 Whiting Farms Road, Holyoke
(800) 553-0120
www.universalplastics.com
Joseph Peters, CEO
Since 1965, Universal Plastics has been a leading force in the custom thermoforming industry. It specializes in precision custom thermoforming, a plastic-manufacturing process that converts a sheet of plastic into a highly detailed finished product with less tooling investment than other plastic molding processes.

Whalley Precision Inc.
28 Hudson Dr., Southwick
www.whalleyprecision.com
DAVID WHALLEY, PRESIDENT
Whalley Precision Inc. is a family-owned small business and full-service manufacturing company/FAA repair station founded in 1990. The company performs general fabrication, machining, and assembly. Its services include CNC/manual milling and turning; ID, OD, and surface grinding; jig boring; honing; MIG and TIG welding; metal forming; and robotic welding and assembly. In addition to carbon steel, the company routinely works with stainless steel, aluminum, space-age alloys and plastics, and materials such as Inconel and Kovar, as well as various other hardened materials.

Wright Architectural Millwork Corp.
115 Industrial Dr., Northampton
(413) 586-3528
www.wrightmw.com
Walt Price, President
Wright Architectural Millwork embraces current technology, blending digital technology and traditional craftsmanship for the highest quality of millwork solutions, which can be found in the facilities of some of the world’s best-known companies and institutions. The firm procures and works with non-wood materials (such as stone, glass, leather, fabrics, and architectural metals), integrating them into quality woodwork for complete, customized designs.vv
American Pest Solutions Inc.
169 William St., Springfield
(413) 781-0044
www.413pestfree.com
Robert Russell, President
For nearly 100 years, American Pest Solutions has been taking care of families and business owners to keep their properties free from ants, bedbugs, rodents, roaches, termites, and other harmful pest infestations. By utilizing products and pest-treatment solutions designed to minimize impacts on the surrounding environment, American takes an ecologically sensitive approach to pest control for the environmentally concerned client.

Axia Insurance & Affiliates
933 East Columbus Ave., Springfield
(413) 788-9000
www.axiagroup.net
Michael Long, CEO
“AXiA” translates from Greek to mean ‘value, capability, merit, and worthiness’; it’s Axia Insurance’s philosophy of doing business. Representing several carriers for commercial clients, Axia also represents other personal-insurance companies specifically for MassMutual employee services, but can service to anyone for personal lines.

Con-Test Analytical Laboratory
39 Spruce St., East Longmeadow
(413) 525-2332
www.contestlabs.com
Thomas Veratti Sr., Founder
Established in 1984, Con-Test provides environmental consulting and testing services to a variety of clients throughout Western Mass. The laboratory-testing division originally focused on industrial hygiene analysis, but rapidly expanded to include numerous techniques in air analysis, classical (wet) chemistry, metals, and organics, and has the capability for analyzing nearly all water, air, soil, and solid materials.

Dynamic Dock & Door Inc.
64 Lowell St., West Springfield
(413) 731-1114
www.dynamic-dock-door.com
Bret Leveillee, Vice President
Dynamic Dock and Door is a complete materials-handling company specializing in loading-dock equipment, overhead doors, storage systems, and energy conservation. Providing companies across New England and New Jersey for more than 20 years with quality overhead door and loading-dock equipment, installation, and service, the company has recently added installation, sales, and service of traditional commercial man doors to its product and service mix.

FIT Solutions
25 Bremen St., Springfield
(413) 733-6466
www.fitsolutions.us
Jackie Fallon, President
Since 2004, FIT Solutions has been partnering with clients, from small-business owners who have only a few IT needs to large companies that have small IT departments, to provide the best candidates for a variety of IT positions. Meeting with the hiring manager, FIT Solutions determines the exact qualifications and skills needed, as well as the personality traits desired in order to find candidates that fit an array of technology-based positions. FIT Solutions now serves both the Massachusetts and Connecticut markets.

Fletcher Sewer & Drain Inc.
824a Perimeter Road, Ludlow
(413) 547-8180
www.fletcherseweranddrain.com
Teri Marinello, President
Since 1985, Fletcher Sewer & Drain has provided service to homeowners as well as municipalities and construction companies for large pipeline jobs from Western Mass. to Southern Conn. From unblocking kitchen sinks to replacing sewer lines, this woman-owned company keeps up-to-date with all the latest technology, from high-pressure sewer jetters to the newest camera-inspection equipment.

The Futures Health Group, LLC *
136 Williams St., Springfield
(800) 218-9280
Peter Bittel, CEO
The Futures Health Group provides special-education and clinical services and management to 25,000 students and individuals. Bittel has more than 35 years of clinical and executive leadership experience in the areas of special education, rehabilitation, and developmental disabilities.

The Gaudreau Group
1984 Boston Road, Wilbraham
(413) 543-3534
www.gaudreaugroup.com
Jules Gaudreau, President
A multi-line insurance and financial-service agency established in 1921, the Gaudreau Group combines the traditional service philosophy of an agency with the talents of a dynamic marketing organization. With the expertise and resources that enable clients to respond to an ever-changing economic environment, the agency offers a broad range of insurance and financial products from basic life, home, and auto insurance to complex corporate services, employee benefits, and retirement plans.

GMH Fence Co. Inc.
15 Benton Dr., East Longmeadow
(413) 525-3361
www.gmhfence.com
Glenn Hastie, Owner
Serving the Western Mass. area for more than over 20 years, GMH Fence Co. is one of largest and most respected fence companies in the region. The fencing contractor offers quality service and fence installations from a selection of wood, aluminum, steel, and vinyl fencing that are durable and virtually trouble-free for residential, commercial, and industrial fencing requests.

Janice Yanni, DDS, PC
180 Westfield St., West Springfield
(413) 739-4400
www.yanniorthodontics.com
Dr. Janice Yanni, Owner
It’s never too early or too late to think about improving a smile, and Yanni Orthodontics has a mission to make all their patients smile. Dr. Janice Yanni specializes in orthodontic treatment for children, teens, and adults with offices in West Springfield as well as Tolland, Conn., using the latest in technology and a variety of treatment options, including Invisalign, Invisalign Express, Incognito, Six Month Smiles, and traditional braces.

Lattitude
1338 Memorial Ave., West Springfield
(413) 241-8888
www.lattitude1338.com
Jeff Daigneau, Owner
Executive chef and owner Jeff Daigneau opened Lattitude in 2007 and offers a unique, continually changing menu, based on local, seasonal product and his own classically trained talent for inimitable cuisine. The recent addition of a large outdoor patio-bar area for dining and live music will complement new interior expansions, including a new, 80-seat banquet room. Lattitude offers private, on-site events as well as off-site catering for 10 to several hundred people.

Market Mentors, LLC
1680 Riverdale St., West Springfield
(413) 787-1133
www.marketmentors.com
Michelle Abdow, Principal
A full-service marketing firm, Market Mentors handles all forms of marketing, including advertising in all mediums, media buying, graphic design, public relations, and event planning.

NetLogix Inc.
181 Notre Dame St., Westfield
(413) 586-2777
www.netlgx.com
Marco Liquori, President
NetLogix offers a wide range of IT services, including equipment sales; managed network services and remote monitoring; network design, installation, and management; network security and firewalls; disaster-recovery and business-continuity services; VoIP; wi-fi; and more.

NUVO Bank & Trust Co. *
1500 Main St., Springfield
(413) 787-2700
www.nuvobank.com
M. Dale Janes, CEO
Chartered in 2007, NUVO is an independent, locally owned bank that provides deposits, residential and commercial loans, and cash-management services for both personal-banking and business-banking needs.

O’Connell Professional Nurse Service Inc.
14 Bobala Road, Suite 1B, Holyoke
(413) 533-1030
www.opns.com
Francis O’Connell, President
For more than two decades, O’Connell Professional Nurse Service Inc., (O’Connell Care at Home and Healthcare Staffing) has grown to deliver a range of home-health and staffing services across the Pioneer Valley. Services range from nursing care and geriatric healthcare management to advocacy and transportation.

Powervestors, LLC
55 Jackson St., Holyoke
(413) 536-1156
www.aegisenergyservices.com
Spiro Vardakas, Owner
Powervestors provides services in power-generating equipment installation throughout the region.

R & R Industries Inc.
195 Rocus St., Springfield
(413) 733-2118
www.randrind.com
Bruce Robinovitz, President
Family-owned and operated since 1957, R & R Industries is a full-service metal and auto recycler serving Western Mass. and Northern Conn., providing recycling and container services to commercial, industrial, and residential customers.   The company also purchases all ferrous and non-ferrous metals at market prices and supplies hard-to-find auto parts for older models.

Robert F. Scott Co. Inc.
467 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow
(413) 567-7089
Leonard Rising III, President
Robert F. Scott Co. Inc. (known as Longmeadow Garage) is a locally owned and operated, full-service gasoline and automotive service station. Its staff includes ASE-certified technicians well-versed in all makes and models.

Specialty Bolt & Screw Inc. *
235 Bowles Road, Agawam
(413) 789-6700
www.specialtybolt.com
Alan Crosby, CEO
Founded in 1977, Specialty Bolt & Screw Inc. is a distributor of innovative fastener solutions. The company has engineering resources on staff to help determine the optimum fastener for each application, and utilizes state-of-the-art technology along with more than 30 years of experience to help clients achieve their objectives.

Titan USA Enterprises Inc. *
140 Baldwin St., West Springfield
(888) 482-6872
www.titanman.com
Ralph Colby, CEO
For almost four decades, Titan USA Enterprises has served industrial distributors as a manufacturer of premium-quality, solid-carbide, high-speed steel and cobalt cutting tools.

United Industrial Services Inc.
120 Almgren Dr., Agawam
(413) 789-0896
www.unitedindustrialinc.com
Tony Reopel, Vice President
From the simplest hand truck to the most sophisticated conveyor systems and in-plant racking layouts, United Industrial Services has been providing material handling solutions for every size of business for more than 30 years. The company supports sales, leasing, rentals, parts, and services for all forms of industrial mechanical needs, and offers OSHA experts to provide guidelines for safe operation of every machine sold.

Universal Plastics Corp. *
75 Whiting Farms Road, Holyoke
(800) 553-0120
www.universalplastics.com
Joseph Peters, CEO
Since 1965, Universal Plastics has been a leading force in the custom thermoforming industry. It specializes in precision custom thermoforming, a plastic-manufacturing process that converts a sheet of plastic into a highly detailed finished product with less tooling investment than other plastic molding processes.

Whalley Precision Inc.
28 Hudson Dr., Southwick
www.whalleyprecision.com
DAVID WHALLEY, PRESIDENT
Whalley Precision Inc. is a family-owned small business and full-service manufacturing company/FAA repair station founded in 1990. The company performs general fabrication, machining, and assembly. Its services include CNC/manual milling and turning; ID, OD, and surface grinding; jig boring; honing; MIG and TIG welding; metal forming; and robotic welding and assembly. In addition to carbon steel, the company routinely works with stainless steel, aluminum, space-age alloys and plastics, and materials such as Inconel and Kovar, as well as various other hardened materials.

Wright Architectural Millwork Corp.
115 Industrial Dr., Northampton
(413) 586-3528
www.wrightmw.com
Walt Price, President
Wright Architectural Millwork embraces current technology, blending digital technology and traditional craftsmanship for the highest quality of millwork solutions, which can be found in the facilities of some of the world’s best-known companies and institutions. The firm procures and works with non-wood materials (such as stone, glass, leather, fabrics, and architectural metals), integrating them into quality woodwork for complete, customized designs.vv

Community Profile: Enfield, Conn.

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Community Profile Features
Enfield Enjoys Vibrant Business Development

EnfieldCommunityMapLast year, Jeannette Norman and her husband, Lou Masachi, purchased the former Friendly’s restaurant at 86 Enfield St. in Enfield, Conn. “The building had sat empty for several years and was an eyesore,” Norman said.
But they were intrigued by the location — right off of I-91 and almost in front of MassMutual — and after gutting and renovating the building and cleaning up the property, they opened the doors to the Backyard Bar and Grill on July 2, 2012.
Although the couple hoped the eatery would do well with a broad clientele — it boasts a full bar as well as a children’s menu and a good environment for families — its popularity has been greater than they imagined. “Business has been excellent, even better than we expected,” Norman said.
She cites Enfield as an ideal spot to own and operate a business. “It has a lot of diversity in terms of demographics, a lot of commercial opportunity, and a good mix of residents and businesses,” Norman told BusinessWest, adding they opened an outdoor patio in May, which has also proved to be a draw.
Town officials say the success the couple has experienced mirrors the experience of many business owners as Enfield has undergone an unprecedented amount of growth in the last few years. “In the past year alone, we have issued more than $100 million in building permits, which is more than the town has ever done in its history,” said Town Manager Matthew Coppler.
The upswing is remarkable, considering a number of serious setbacks that occurred in 2007 and 2008. “Westvaco closed, and Lego downsized from 800 to 300 employees,” Coppler said, adding that the cutback resulted in 1 million square feet of empty distribution and manufacturing space.
Circuit City and Bernie’s also went out of business, along with a number of other retail stores. “Things were very bleak at one point, and we had one of the highest vacancy rates of retail space in the state. It was very bad for about two and a half years,” Coppler said.
But in 2009, Enfield’s economy began to rebound, and in the ensuing years the town saw rapid growth. “What has come out of the setbacks we suffered is far greater than what we had here before,” he said.
Lego’s Enfield warehouse and offices have undergone a $10 million renovation, which transformed it from a manufacturing facility into offices for white-collar workers. Phase 1 is finished, another expansion is planned, and when it is complete, the number of jobs regained will be close to those that were eliminated. The toymaker’s distribution and manufacturing space has also been filled, including square footage leased by Coca-Cola and Advanced Auto.
In addition, Westvaco’s property was purchased by Data Warehouse Co., while the former Bernie’s store became home to Underwriter’s Laboratories when the company relocated to Enfield.
The German biomedical equipment maker Eppendorf Manufacturing Co. has also expanded twice in less than 10 years, and last spring, the firm began a $25 million expansion to its production plant, in addition to buying land from the town.
Growth also occurred at MassMutual. The company tackled a $15 million renovation of its Enfield campus after purchasing the Hartford’s Retirement Services division. “They are finishing the exterior of the building right now,” Coppler said, adding that the acquisition brought about 300 new jobs to Enfield.
Yankee Castings is also expanding, with a 5,000-square-foot addition. “And the second phase of their addition will add another 40,000 square feet,” he noted.
The retail arena has also improved considerably, and the former home of Circuit City is now occupied by P.T. Richards. Meanwhile, storefronts in Enfield Mall that sat empty are now occupied. “We have gained back more than we lost,” Coppler said. “Things have happened very quickly, especially on the commercial side.”

Winning Combination

Matthew Coppler, left, and Peter Bryanton

Matthew Coppler, left, and Peter Bryanton say Enfield businesses are thriving, and more space is available.

Coppler said four factors have played a major role in Enfield’s economic boom, the first being its location. “It’s very conveniently situated off of I-91 with proximity to Bradley International Airport and two large metropolitan areas with different and diverse characteristics, and businesses can also tap into two different pools of employees in Hartford and Springfield.”
The large anchor industries in town, which include Lego, Hallmark, MassMutual, and Eppendorf, have also helped to keep the economy strong. “And Brooks Brothers is consolidating all of its operations to Enfield,” Coppler said, adding that, during the past two years, partnerships have formed between these cornerstone businesses and the town’s schools, leading to internships and externships for students. “One of our goals is to keep our youth here.”
The third draw is the affordability of housing and rental space. “It provides a lot of opportunity for people who want to live and work in our town,” he said.
Peter Bryanton agreed. “Enfield has every available service people need. It’s all right here,” said the town’s director of Community Development. “We have seven plazas and an enclosed mall, and in the last 18 months, Aspen Dental and Moe’s restaurant have opened up in Enfield Commons, and on Hazard Avenue, the site of the former Bickford’s has become home to Chipotle, Supercuts, and a wireless store.
“Plus,” he continued, “Hartford Hospital has several satellite medical facilities in Enfield, and St. Francis Hospital recently established health facilities here. These are all building blocks to the future we are trying to create.”
A fourth attraction is the active role citizens play in the town’s government. “The people who live here want the best for their community and believe in living up to their responsibility. They want to be part of town committees,” Coppler said. Recently, 50 residents applied for 13 spots on the high-school building committee. It’s a quality that stretches back to World War II, when Enfield had the highest per-capita enlistment rate in the U.S., he noted.
But although the town has experienced tremendous growth in the past few years, officials say they continue to work to keep Enfield vital. “We are trying to live up to our reputation of creating an environment that makes people want to live here,” Coppler said, citing infrastructure improvements that include $60 million spent on sidewalks and roads over the last 15 years.
Town leaders have also adopted measures to streamline the permitting process. “In the past, Enfield was seen as creating barriers to growth. But that has changed,” he said, explaining that officials made a concerted effort to meet with business owners to get feedback about how they could improve the system, then implemented their suggestions.
He cited the exterior renovation of MassMutual, which is nearing completion, as an example of that success. “They came to us with their plan on June 26, and within a month, they had all of the approvals they needed, including those for wetlands,” he said, adding that the wetlands presented a challenge for the town, “but our land-use board holds special meetings when things need to get done.”
The town also took a proactive stance in 2008 and 2009 by building a Hampton Inn on the edge of the industrial park. It contained a pad for a restaurant, and a Longhorn’s Steakhouse is set to open there soon.

Dedicated Initiative
Enfield is made up of a number of neighborhoods or small villages, which include Hazardville, Scitico, Shaker Pines, Southwood Acres, and Thompsonville.
Once home to manufacturing mills, Thompsonville is today the focus of a revitalization plan aimed at bringing new life to the area that was once considered downtown when the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co. was thriving and an untold number of homes were built to accommodate workers.
But the town’s center of activity moved when Enfield Mall was constructed. The neighborhood took another hit when Bigelow closed its doors, and “Thompsonville was left in the dust,” Coppler said.
Bryanton agreed, saying the village is now “an urban center with a lot of absentee landlords.” But plans have been put in place to rejuvenate the area. A $3.5 million intermodal transportation center is being built to accommodate travelers on the planned Thompsonville stop of the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield commuter rail line.
“It will be multimodal and will include rail and bus service and a pedestrian/bike path that will link Enfield Street to the Connecticut River as part of the Connecticut River Access Project,” he told BusinessWest.
The downtown is dense, and although there are numerous vacancies, “we know that transit helps bring about economic development,” Bryanton said. “We have also put in new streets and sidewalks and done a large pond-restoration project.”
In addition, the nonprofit Enfield Community Development Corp. has been tasked with granting $180,000 in microloans for startup businesses and expansions in Thompsonville. A tax-abatement process for improvements and new construction in the area is also in place, and town officials are in the process of completing a zoning study to ensure that space is available for new businesses that fit in with the natural surroundings, he added.
As for Coppler, he believes the town is filled with vitality and has experienced tremendous growth, but has not yet realized its full potential.
“Today, our vacancy rate is the second-lowest in the state,” he said. “There is money to be made here, and we can show that we have worked to help businesses come to Enfield or expand here.”

Real Estate Transactions

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Departments Real Estate

The following real estate transactions (latest avail­able) were compiled by Banker & Tradesman and are published as they were received. Only transactions exceeding $115,000 are listed. Buyer and seller fields contain only the first name listed on the deed.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

BUCKLAND

24 Conway St
Buckland,  MA  01338
Amount:  $240,000
Buyer:  Juliana M West
Seller:  Vitaly Dzhenzherukha
Date:  09/05/13

Crittenden Hill Rd
Buckland,  MA  01338
Amount:  $125,000
Buyer:  Robert S Grignaffini
Seller:  Amy S Reiser
Date:  08/26/13

Orcutt Hill Rd #1
Buckland,  MA  01338
Amount:  $115,000
Buyer:  Huong C Chow
Seller:  Mark A Amstein
Date:  08/26/13

10 Sears St
Buckland,  MA  01338
Amount:  $125,000
Buyer:  Walter B Earle
Seller:  Robert R Jackson
Date:  08/30/13

25 Stone Rd
Buckland,  MA  01338
Amount:  $245,000
Buyer:  Davin G Ojala
Seller:  Susan J Shauger
Date:  08/27/13

COLRAIN

214 Call Rd
Colrain,  MA  01340
Amount:  $342,000
Buyer:  Brenda L Mozdzierz
Seller:  Leslie Ann Brooks RET
Date:  08/30/13

DEERFIELD

115 Lee Rd
Deerfield,  MA  01373
Amount:  $245,000
Buyer:  Michelle L Kofler
Seller:  Nicole Bernier
Date:  08/29/13

85 Mill Village Rd
Deerfield,  MA  01373
Amount:  $347,000
Buyer:  Anthony J Furnari
Seller:  Jason J Paadam
Date:  09/04/13

ERVING

6 North St
Erving,  MA  01344
Amount:  $170,000
Buyer:  Debra A Lapinski
Seller:  Rita Dubay
Date:  08/30/13

GILL

32 Mountain Rd
Gill,  MA  01354
Amount:  $130,000
Buyer:  New Perspective Dev
Date:  08/30/13

GREENFIELD

345 Chapman St
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $170,000
Buyer:  Joyce A Barber
Seller:  Tiffany Q Xie
Date:  08/30/13

4 Coolidge Ave
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $228,000
Buyer:  Se H Ahn
Seller:  Haigis, Eleanor V Est
Date:  08/30/13

145 Federal St
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $190,000
Buyer:  Zip Zoo LLC
Seller:  Christene M Libbares RET
Date:  08/27/13

11 Grand Ave
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $139,000
Buyer:  Justin D Streeter
Seller:  Quintana, Minnie J Est
Date:  09/06/13

36 James St
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $190,900
Buyer:  A P Shallers
Seller:  Felicity M Pool
Date:  08/26/13

22 King Rd
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $185,000
Buyer:  Shawn P Stone
Seller:  Kim M Stone
Date:  09/06/13

95 Laurel St
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $2,938,953
Buyer:  NHI Reit Of Northeast LLC
Seller:  CFM Buckley N LLC
Date:  09/06/13

155 Leyden Rd
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $160,000
Buyer:  Susanne E Gunnard
Seller:  Nathan W Jackman
Date:  08/30/13

375 Leyden Rd
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $200,500
Buyer:  Brian A Coppola
Seller:  Baker, Carolyn A Est
Date:  08/30/13

448 Mohawk Trl
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $165,500
Buyer:  Graham Russin
Seller:  Audley Robinson
Date:  08/30/13

94 Oakland St
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $160,000
Buyer:  Meredith C Leach
Seller:  Michael W Leach
Date:  08/30/13

49 Silver St
Greenfield,  MA  01301
Amount:  $165,000
Buyer:  Victor S Placinta
Seller:  Peter J Sullivan
Date:  08/30/13

LEYDEN

752 Greenfield Rd
Leyden,  MA  01301
Amount:  $327,000
Buyer:  Ginger S Robinson
Seller:  Jeanne M Breeden
Date:  08/30/13

MONTAGUE

19 Bulkley St
Montague,  MA  01376
Amount:  $165,000
Buyer:  William J Oneill
Seller:  John V Tessier
Date:  08/30/13

74 Dry Hill Rd
Montague,  MA  01351
Amount:  $175,000
Buyer:  Bryna R Zioliver
Seller:  Gregory R Haas
Date:  09/05/13

NORTHFIELD

15 Mountain Rd
Northfield,  MA  01360
Amount:  $158,000
Buyer:  Frank A Penny
Seller:  Gail E Clair
Date:  08/30/13

ORANGE

170 Wheeler Ave
Orange,  MA  01364
Amount:  $345,000
Buyer:  Gary E Haueisen
Seller:  170 Wheeler Avenue T
Date:  08/26/13

SHELBURNE

Frankton Rd
Shelburne,  MA  01370
Amount:  $342,000
Buyer:  Brenda L Mozdzierz
Seller:  Leslie Ann Brooks RET
Date:  08/30/13

271 Patten Rd
Shelburne,  MA  01370
Amount:  $270,000
Buyer:  Paul Stmartin
Seller:  Rita Dubay
Date:  08/30/13

3 Pleasant St
Shelburne,  MA  01370
Amount:  $330,000
Buyer:  Lauri S Marder
Seller:  Abigail Wolfson
Date:  08/26/13

SHUTESBURY

218 Baker Rd
Shutesbury,  MA  01072
Amount:  $400,000
Buyer:  Ethan T Whitehill
Seller:  George R Milne
Date:  09/05/13

SUNDERLAND

242 Russell St
Sunderland,  MA  01375
Amount:  $235,000
Buyer:  Steele RET
Seller:  Laura J McPheters
Date:  08/27/13

WHATELY

62 Christian Ln
Whately,  MA  01093
Amount:  $650,000
Buyer:  Full Bloom Market Garden LLC
Seller:  Christian Lane LLC
Date:  09/04/13

14 Westbrook Rd
Whately,  MA  01373
Amount:  $375,000
Buyer:  Henry M Frechette
Seller:  David B Champoux
Date:  08/28/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

6 Frank St
Agawam,  MA  01001
Amount:  $139,000
Buyer:  Jason Bryant
Seller:  Brian M Johnson
Date:  08/30/13

115 Lancaster Dr
Agawam,  MA  01001
Amount:  $318,000
Buyer:  Avinash S Bharvirkar
Seller:  Thomas G Gonet
Date:  08/29/13

45 North Westfield St
Agawam,  MA  01030
Amount:  $291,000
Buyer:  Michael P Murphy
Seller:  Timothy M Guay
Date:  09/04/13

22 Parkview Dr
Agawam,  MA  01030
Amount:  $225,500
Buyer:  Edward R Heim
Seller:  Poplar Development LLC
Date:  08/30/13

180 Silver Lake Dr
Agawam,  MA  01001
Amount:  $321,950
Buyer:  Michael A Sarnelli
Seller:  Dennis A Letendre
Date:  08/26/13

1162 Springfield St
Agawam,  MA  01030
Amount:  $1,450,000
Buyer:  1162-1172 Springfield St. RT
Seller:  1162-1172 Springfield St. RT
Date:  08/30/13

45 Zacks Way
Agawam,  MA  01001
Amount:  $370,000
Buyer:  Scott A Main
Seller:  T Russo Construction Corp.
Date:  08/28/13

BRIMFIELD

112 East Brimfield Holland
Brimfield,  MA  01010
Amount:  $125,000
Buyer:  Richard W Swett
Seller:  Aris Group LLC
Date:  08/28/13

CHESTER

216 Blandford Rd
Chester,  MA  01223
Amount:  $209,000
Buyer:  Christopher M Merenda
Seller:  Timothy Dawson-Townsend
Date:  08/27/13

430 East River Rd
Chester,  MA  01050
Amount:  $497,530
Buyer:  Eric D Braaten
Seller:  Steven M Thompson
Date:  09/03/13

CHICOPEE

16 Boylston St
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $140,000
Buyer:  Robert E Desmarais
Seller:  Desmarais, Helen S Est
Date:  09/04/13

263 Britton St
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $127,500
Buyer:  Debra J Malinowski
Seller:  Dollie H Aiello
Date:  08/30/13

30 Butler Ave
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $179,000
Buyer:  Michael J Vieu
Seller:  Lawrence A White
Date:  08/30/13

14 Hajec Cir
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $229,500
Buyer:  Richard Dombek
Seller:  Scott A Main
Date:  08/27/13

55 Hyde Ave
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $165,000
Buyer:  Kenneth R Labrie
Seller:  Thomas J Robak
Date:  08/30/13

69 Kaveney St
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $260,000
Buyer:  Kim Pham
Seller:  Ruslan Kuzmenko
Date:  08/30/13

57 Leo Dr
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $230,000
Buyer:  Albert T Luzietti
Seller:  Sharon A Dussault
Date:  08/30/13

90 Marlborough St
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $199,000
Buyer:  Ricky T Javier
Date:  08/26/13

137 Mayflower Ave
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $267,000
Buyer:  Ronald H Boulanger
Seller:  Premier Home Builders Inc
Date:  08/30/13

35 Munger Rd
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $140,000
Buyer:  Derrick M Patruno
Seller:  Rudolph P Ciecko
Date:  08/27/13

53 Old Lyman Rd
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $214,000
Buyer:  Geoffrey C Gagnon
Seller:  Benjamin Smith
Date:  08/29/13

64 Rzasa Dr
Chicopee,  MA  01013
Amount:  $170,000
Buyer:  Joanna Kuta
Seller:  Thomas J Noga
Date:  09/04/13

45 Simonich St
Chicopee,  MA  01013
Amount:  $149,500
Buyer:  Lisa M Lomas
Seller:  Helen A Swierad
Date:  08/26/13

96 Sunflower Ave
Chicopee,  MA  01013
Amount:  $157,000
Buyer:  William R Hernandez
Seller:  Ronald H Boulanger
Date:  08/30/13

236 Tolpa Cir
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $275,000
Buyer:  Theresa L Laframboise
Seller:  Jennifer L Donais
Date:  08/30/13

73 Waite Ave
Chicopee,  MA  01020
Amount:  $164,591
Buyer:  Green Tree Serving LLC
Seller:  Michael J Wilk
Date:  09/05/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

152 Brookhaven Dr
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $270,000
Buyer:  Julie A Makris
Seller:  Lawrence F Marquis
Date:  08/29/13

183 Chestnut St
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $220,900
Buyer:  Gregory D Forbes
Seller:  John Tsongalis
Date:  08/30/13

449 Dwight Rd
East Longmeadow, MA  01108
Amount:  $141,000
Buyer:  Catherine L Landry
Seller:  Chris Hall
Date:  08/28/13

74 Hanward Hill
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $179,900
Buyer:  Michael Sacristan
Seller:  Richard C Lyons
Date:  08/30/13

30 Heritage Cir
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $495,500
Buyer:  Michael A Zwirko
Seller:  William M Farkos
Date:  08/30/13

21 Lynwood Rd
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $274,287
Buyer:  Freedom Mortgage Corp
Seller:  Michael P Godin
Date:  09/05/13

170 Mapleshade Ave
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $174,000
Buyer:  Paul L Oldenburg T
Seller:  Edward R Matulewicz
Date:  08/29/13

604 North Main St
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $200,000
Buyer:  MPSA LLC
Seller:  Island Realty Inc
Date:  08/27/13

678 Parker St
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $145,000
Buyer:  Derrick J Mclaughlin
Seller:  Neils Amelia C Est
Date:  09/04/13

20 Rollins Dr
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $425,000
Buyer:  Vincenzo E Amore
Seller:  Derek J Caparoso
Date:  08/28/13

110 Westwood Ave
East Longmeadow, MA  01028
Amount:  $219,000
Buyer:  US Bank NA
Seller:  Jeffrey C Mccorkindale
Date:  09/04/13

GRANVILLE

62 Cross Rd
Granville,  MA  01034
Amount:  $207,000
Buyer:  John P Yeakley
Seller:  Clary, Serena E Est
Date:  08/30/13

399 Main Rd
Granville,  MA  01034
Amount:  $150,400
Buyer:  Reilly E Humason
Seller:  J D Thomas
Date:  09/04/13

HAMPDEN

52 Kelly Ln
Hampden,  MA  01036
Amount:  $330,000
Buyer:  James E Cormier
Seller:  Allison J Flahery
Date:  08/30/13

36 Ridge Rd
Hampden,  MA  01036
Amount:  $505,000
Buyer:  Mark S Howland
Seller:  Donna J Collins
Date:  08/30/13

69 Woodland Dr
Hampden,  MA  01036
Amount:  $165,000
Buyer:  Averi S Purchas
Seller:  Marilyn J Jordan
Date:  08/30/13

HOLLAND

38 Island Rd
Holland,  MA  01521
Amount:  $250,000
Buyer:  Matthew S Vuelta
Seller:  Eliezer Bonilla
Date:  08/27/13

HOLYOKE

95 Brook St
Holyoke,  MA  01040
Amount:  $127,500
Buyer:  Lucien A Rivera
Seller:  Roger T Dore
Date:  08/26/13

33 Brookline Ave
Holyoke,  MA  01040
Amount:  $150,775
Buyer:  Alberto C Rivera
Seller:  Carlos L Flores
Date:  08/29/13

179 Chestnut St
Holyoke,  MA  01040
Amount:  $286,000
Buyer:  179-185 Chestnut LLC
Seller:  Chestnut Street LLC
Date:  09/04/13

74 Eastern Promenade St
Holyoke,  MA  01040
Amount:  $239,000
Buyer:  Julia Ortiz
Seller:  Lisa Giroux
Date:  09/05/13

68 Lynch Dr
Holyoke,  MA  01040
Amount:  $169,900
Buyer:  Amanda Wellman
Seller:  Anne M Hart
Date:  08/29/13

33 Moss Ave
Holyoke,  MA  01040
Amount:  $145,000
Buyer:  Gary W Romanovicz
Seller:  Robert G Klopfer
Date:  08/30/13

1050 Northampton St
Holyoke,  MA  01040
Amount:  $339,900
Buyer:  Todd M Osullivan
Seller:  Radner Sidney H Est
Date:  08/30/13

39 Ridgewood Ave
Holyoke,  MA  01040
Amount:  $188,250
Buyer:  Tracie L Lacasse
Seller:  Sean P Fitzgerald
Date:  08/30/13

LONGMEADOW

104 Ardsley Rd
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $560,000
Buyer:  Kasia Novak
Seller:  Oded Rencus
Date:  08/30/13

22 Cambridge Cir
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $302,000
Buyer:  Robert A Stamand
Seller:  Thomas J Kucab
Date:  08/30/13

83 Ely Way
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $705,000
Buyer:  Mae M Mirabelli
Seller:  Nancy M Westermann
Date:  08/30/13

163 Englewood Rd
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $561,000
Buyer:  Brian W Breed
Seller:  Kirk E Merriam
Date:  08/28/13

8 Grassy Gutter Rd
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $359,900
Buyer:  Celine A Gaudreau
Seller:  Vincent B Santaniello
Date:  08/29/13

25 Massachusetts Ave
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $203,500
Buyer:  Anthony S Guardione
Seller:  Catherine K Dunn
Date:  08/30/13

221 Meadowlark Dr
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $237,000
Buyer:  Lawrence F Marquis
Seller:  Lu J Pan
Date:  08/29/13

52 Oakwood Dr
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $245,500
Buyer:  Vincent A Guardione
Seller:  Ellen D Heye
Date:  09/03/13

195 Prynnwood Rd
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $425,500
Buyer:  Xuan Li
Seller:  Peter A Byler
Date:  08/26/13

289 Tanglewood Dr
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $442,500
Buyer:  Theodore K Mlapah
Seller:  Olga I Andreyeva
Date:  08/30/13

119 Warren Ter
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $210,000
Buyer:  Gail A Thomas
Seller:  Carolyn J Brown
Date:  09/04/13

97 Western Dr
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $392,000
Buyer:  Brian E Leverock
Seller:  Nancy R Quartz
Date:  08/28/13

963 Williams St
Longmeadow,  MA  01106
Amount:  $277,500
Buyer:  Vincent B Santaniello
Seller:  Setnor Jules R Est
Date:  08/29/13

LUDLOW

12 Chestnut St
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $125,000
Buyer:  Stevens Senior Hsng Ludl
Seller:  Ludlow Town Of
Date:  08/26/13

184 East St
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $141,500
Buyer:  James H Taylor
Seller:  Nicole R Parker
Date:  08/28/13

194 Highland Ave
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $133,500
Buyer:  Ashleigh M Ouimette
Seller:  Donald J Couture
Date:  08/28/13

37 Hill Ter
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $277,000
Buyer:  Matthew M Hoar
Seller:  Jason A Barroso
Date:  08/27/13

219 Moody St
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $700,000
Buyer:  Gilmar Realty LLC
Seller:  Tassinari James R Est
Date:  08/29/13

101 Motyka St
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $150,000
Buyer:  Armando F Tereso
Seller:  Paulo A Tereso
Date:  09/04/13

56 Oakwood Dr
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $315,000
Buyer:  Daniel P Demars
Seller:  Dinis Baltazar
Date:  08/30/13

Parker Ln
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $126,500
Buyer:  FJFB RT
Seller:  Whitetail Wreks LLC
Date:  09/05/13

54 Reynolds St
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $197,000
Buyer:  Barbara Brehaut
Seller:  Daniel Jarvis
Date:  08/30/13

156 Simonds St
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $130,000
Buyer:  Norman Ladue
Seller:  Patricia A Bousquet
Date:  08/26/13

153 West Ave
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $164,000
Buyer:  Cristina D Ribeiro
Seller:  Antonio V Aleixo
Date:  08/27/13

MONSON

107 Bogan Rd
Monson,  MA  01057
Amount:  $187,600
Buyer:  Adam Hageman
Seller:  Benjamin P Goodwin
Date:  08/29/13

226 Bumstead Rd
Monson,  MA  01057
Amount:  $245,000
Buyer:  Patrick G Renna
Seller:  Jason E Stratton
Date:  08/28/13

PALMER

3 Homestead St
Palmer,  MA  01069
Amount:  $270,000
Buyer:  Deidre L Cadieux
Seller:  Norman B Flebotte
Date:  08/29/13

68 Jim Ash Rd
Palmer,  MA  01069
Amount:  $216,000
Buyer:  Stacey Vogel
Seller:  Matthew D Cadieux
Date:  08/29/13

1426 Park St
Palmer,  MA  01069
Amount:  $143,000
Buyer:  Randall G Ketterman
Seller:  Laurel C Dickson
Date:  08/30/13

54 Reynolds St
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $197,000
Buyer:  Barbara Brehaut
Seller:  Daniel Jarvis
Date:  08/30/13

156 Simonds St
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $130,000
Buyer:  Norman Ladue
Seller:  Patricia A Bousquet
Date:  08/26/13

153 West Ave
Ludlow,  MA  01056
Amount:  $164,000
Buyer:  Cristina D Ribeiro
Seller:  Antonio V Aleixo
Date:  08/27/13

MONSON

107 Bogan Rd
Monson,  MA  01057
Amount:  $187,600
Buyer:  Adam Hageman
Seller:  Benjamin P Goodwin
Date:  08/29/13

226 Bumstead Rd
Monson,  MA  01057
Amount:  $245,000
Buyer:  Patrick G Renna
Seller:  Jason E Stratton
Date:  08/28/13

PALMER

3 Homestead St
Palmer,  MA  01069
Amount:  $270,000
Buyer:  Deidre L Cadieux
Seller:  Norman B Flebotte
Date:  08/29/13

68 Jim Ash Rd
Palmer,  MA  01069
Amount:  $216,000
Buyer:  Stacey Vogel
Seller:  Matthew D Cadieux
Date:  08/29/13

1426 Park St
Palmer,  MA  01069
Amount:  $143,000
Buyer:  Randall G Ketterman
Seller:  Laurel C Dickson
Date:  08/30/13

SOUTHWICK

247 Granville Rd
Southwick,  MA  01077
Amount:  $178,000
Buyer:  Marissa B Magni
Seller:  Donald M Prifti
Date:  08/26/13

SPRINGFIELD

100 Appleton St
Springfield,  MA  01108
Amount:  $126,500
Buyer:  Julio A Dejesus
Seller:  Global Home Properties
Date:  08/30/13

39 Bartels St
Springfield,  MA  01128
Amount:  $198,500
Buyer:  Andrew J Wurszt
Seller:  Frank J Stearns
Date:  08/27/13

22 Belvidere St
Springfield,  MA  01108
Amount:  $138,900
Buyer:  Gabriel J Martinez
Seller:  Alice M Auclair
Date:  08/26/13

14 Buick St
Springfield,  MA  01118
Amount:  $165,000
Buyer:  Brendan Broderick
Seller:  Morgan Marjorie V Est
Date:  08/30/13

36 Burns Ave
Springfield,  MA  01119
Amount:  $172,000
Buyer:  Dhara Desai
Seller:  Pavel Kulyak
Date:  08/29/13

85 Castle St
Springfield,  MA  01118
Amount:  $170,900
Buyer:  Carlton J Banks
Seller:  Jeffrey J Hebert
Date:  08/30/13

64 Cherry St
Springfield,  MA  01105
Amount:  $131,000
Buyer:  Leslie A Nater
Seller:  Monty LLC
Date:  08/30/13

92 Corona St
Springfield,  MA  01104
Amount:  $125,000
Buyer:  Mirta T Deperez
Seller:  Richard L Voltz
Date:  09/03/13

154 Darling St
Springfield,  MA  01151
Amount:  $120,000
Buyer:  Johaim Santiago-Ayala
Seller:  Mirella Mcdonough
Date:  08/26/13

201 Durant St
Springfield,  MA  01129
Amount:  $140,000
Buyer:  Joshua Oneil
Seller:  Juan A Rosario
Date:  08/30/13

101 Fair Oak Rd
Springfield,  MA  01128
Amount:  $134,900
Buyer:  Tricia A Calkins
Seller:  James E Cormier
Date:  08/30/13

288 Fountain St
Springfield,  MA  01108
Amount:  $130,000
Buyer:  Angie H Tao
Seller:  Brian K Witman
Date:  08/29/13

109 Gilman St
Springfield,  MA  01118
Amount:  $122,000
Buyer:  Richard Mccarthy
Seller:  Mitchell H Singer
Date:  08/30/13

93 Goodwin St
Springfield,  MA  01151
Amount:  $128,750
Buyer:  Ana Pereira
Seller:  David Heffernan
Date:  08/29/13

55 Gralia Dr
Springfield,  MA  01128
Amount:  $171,322
Buyer:  Jessica Bigelow
Seller:  Joshua S Darling
Date:  08/30/13

33 Hillside Dr
Springfield,  MA  01118
Amount:  $150,000
Buyer:  Margaret A Sheehan
Seller:  Sheila M Sheehan
Date:  08/28/13

157 Jardine St
Springfield,  MA  01107
Amount:  $127,376
Buyer:  US Bank NA Tr
Seller:  Sonia N Gonzalez
Date:  08/30/13

96 Kirk Dr
Springfield,  MA  01109
Amount:  $126,900
Buyer:  Lloyd Chadbourne
Seller:  Joseph Plomaritis
Date:  08/29/13

26 Marmon Ct
Springfield,  MA  01129
Amount:  $165,000
Buyer:  Rachel L Tilli
Seller:  Philip A Sterner
Date:  09/03/13

237 Marmon St
Springfield,  MA  01129
Amount:  $137,500
Buyer:  Michael Perez
Seller:  Harriet F Cupero
Date:  08/30/13

N/A
Springfield,  MA  01128
Amount:  $122,500
Buyer:  Lisandra Nieves
Seller:  Richard S Harty
Date:  09/03/13

76 Norman St
Springfield,  MA  01104
Amount:  $130,000
Buyer:  Brenda L Flores
Seller:  James Morgan
Date:  08/30/13

147 Nottingham St
Springfield,  MA  01104
Amount:  $129,800
Buyer:  PHH Mortgage Corp
Seller:  Charles J Chisholm
Date:  09/05/13

145 Performance Blvd
Springfield,  MA  01101
Amount:  $440,000
Buyer:  Domanico&Schoellkopf
Seller:  RAM Construction LLC
Date:  08/28/13

153 Plainfield St
Springfield,  MA  01104
Amount:  $440,000
Buyer:  RAM Construction LLC
Seller:  Domanico&Schoellkopf
Date:  08/28/13

1321 Plumtree Rd
Springfield,  MA  01119
Amount:  $205,000
Buyer:  Kara M James
Seller:  Peter M Haley
Date:  08/30/13

227 Senator St
Springfield,  MA  01129
Amount:  $151,000
Buyer:  Amanda M Wickett
Seller:  Ronald Sherman
Date:  08/30/13

117 Shady Brook Ln
Springfield,  MA  01118
Amount:  $127,213
Buyer:  Ada Torres
Seller:  Kaitlyn M Matarazzo
Date:  08/27/13

17 Sherbrooke St
Springfield,  MA  01104
Amount:  $119,900
Buyer:  Scott Morin
Seller:  A Plus Enterprises Inc
Date:  08/28/13

170 Switzer Ave #4
Springfield,  MA  01109
Amount:  $135,000
Buyer:  Greylock Group LLC
Seller:  LA LLC
Date:  09/05/13

128 Tallyho Dr
Springfield,  MA  01118
Amount:  $160,000
Buyer:  Helena N Davis
Seller:  Daniel J Dillon
Date:  08/30/13

956 Wilbraham Rd
Springfield,  MA  01109
Amount:  $133,500
Buyer:  Melvin E Cosme
Seller:  Lillian B Akers
Date:  09/03/13

873 Worthington St
Springfield,  MA  01105
Amount:  $126,000
Buyer:  Josue Velney
Seller:  JD Powers Property Mgmt
Date:  08/30/13

167 Wrentham Rd
Springfield,  MA  01119
Amount:  $205,930
Buyer:  Freedom Mortgage Corp
Seller:  Ross A Henke
Date:  08/29/13

WALES

50 Monson Rd
Wales,  MA  01081
Amount:  $169,701
Buyer:  FNMA
Seller:  Nancy E Blackburn
Date:  08/26/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

53 Beech Hill Rd
West Springfield,  MA  01030
Amount:  $324,900
Buyer:  John H Chwalek
Seller:  Beech Hill Construction
Date:  08/30/13

80 Butternut Hollow Rd
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $170,000
Buyer:  Scott E Steglinski
Seller:  Joseph L Fitzpatrick
Date:  09/04/13

N/A
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $229,500
Buyer:  Danielle L Lamagna
Seller:  Emilien L Larochelle
Date:  08/30/13

55 Elm Cir
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $149,204
Buyer:  FNMA
Seller:  John R Landry
Date:  08/26/13

49 Lyman St
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $155,000
Buyer:  Pavel Mashnitski
Seller:  Donna M Vuilleumier
Date:  08/30/13

1164 Morgan Rd
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $213,000
Buyer:  Mary A Bilodeau
Seller:  Eldred J Baker
Date:  08/30/13

429 Morgan Rd
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $450,000
Buyer:  West Springfield Town Of
Seller:  Westfield W Springfd Ldge
Date:  08/27/13

94 Overlook Dr
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $233,500
Buyer:  Lynn A Laplante
Seller:  William S Mullett
Date:  08/30/13

30 Piper Rd
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $157,000
Buyer:  Fidel A Prudencio
Seller:  Stahelski, Francis A Est
Date:  08/28/13

1311 Westfield St
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $525,000
Buyer:  Salmar Realty LLC
Date:  09/03/13

2019 Westfield St
West Springfield,  MA  01089
Amount:  $180,000
Buyer:  Robert Schmidt
Seller:  FNMA
Date:  08/30/13

WESTFIELD

27 East Bartlett St
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $172,000
Buyer:  Theodore J Kopyscinski
Seller:  Dennis Paroline
Date:  08/28/13

11 Hayre St
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $122,500
Buyer:  JRP Realty LLC
Seller:  Liberty, Richard H Est
Date:  08/27/13

187 Joseph Ave
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $294,500
Buyer:  Cathleen R Hutkoski
Seller:  Robin L Deaton
Date:  08/30/13

293 Loomis St
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $170,000
Buyer:  Lisa Gagnon
Seller:  Marie Mercure
Date:  08/30/13

143 Rachael Ter
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $374,000
Buyer:  Thomas J Robak
Seller:  Kevin D Matheny
Date:  08/30/13

33 Russell Rd
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $151,000
Buyer:  Ziblim Abukari
Seller:  Gregory M Ramos
Date:  08/26/13

302 Russell Rd
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $169,000
Buyer:  Jeremiah Z Hoffman
Seller:  Amanda L Craven
Date:  09/04/13

171 Wildflower Cir
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $515,000
Seller:  George Phillips
Date:  08/30/13

104 Woodside Ter
Westfield,  MA  01085
Amount:  $137,000
Buyer:  Zachery Demers
Seller:  Danielle E Bowen
Date:  08/29/13

WILBRAHAM

3 Brainard Rd
Wilbraham,  MA  01095
Amount:  $245,000
Buyer:  Eric M True
Seller:  Natalie M True
Date:  08/30/13

883 Glendale Rd
Wilbraham,  MA  01095
Amount:  $189,000
Buyer:  Christopher Ladue
Seller:  Marion E Oliver
Date:  08/30/13

15 Glenn Dr
Wilbraham,  MA  01095
Amount:  $265,000
Buyer:  Rebecca R Before
Seller:  Bruce E Gaudette
Date:  08/30/13

8 Horseshoe Ln
Wilbraham,  MA  01095
Amount:  $244,900
Buyer:  Jessica M Pace
Seller:  Wilk James E Est
Date:  08/26/13

5 Patriot Ridge Ln
Wilbraham,  MA  01095
Amount:  $429,900
Buyer:  Rakeshkumar V Patel
Seller:  Denise R Tessier
Date:  08/30/13

12 Peak Rd
Wilbraham,  MA  01095
Amount:  $280,000
Buyer:  Carl R Jahn
Seller:  Ronald E Teece
Date:  08/28/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

11 Foxglove Ln
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $509,500
Buyer:  Nina R Tetenbaum
Seller:  Hedy S Wermer
Date:  09/04/13

747 Main St
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $475,000
Buyer:  DNB Properties LLC
Seller:  Onesta Properties Inc
Date:  09/06/13

81 McClellan St
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $450,000
Buyer:  Alan E Giessen
Seller:  Thomas M Scriver
Date:  08/26/13

10 North East St
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $324,500
Buyer:  Andrew B Desiervo
Seller:  Virginia Weimer
Date:  08/26/13

226 Pine St
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $215,000
Buyer:  Burlin Barr
Seller:  Carolyn J Thomas
Date:  08/28/13

659 South East St
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $240,000
Buyer:  Kathryn E Marciano
Seller:  Michael D Olkin
Date:  08/30/13

445 Shays St
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $488,000
Buyer:  Brian D Bowden
Seller:  Fawkner, Margaret B Est
Date:  08/30/13

201 Stanley St
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $331,000
Buyer:  LOC LLC
Seller:  Michael F Strong
Date:  08/27/13

12 Sunset Ct
Amherst,  MA  01002
Amount:  $429,000
Buyer:  DNB Properties LLC
Seller:  Onesta Properties Inc
Date:  09/06/13

BELCHERTOWN

85 Bay Rd
Belchertown,  MA  01007
Amount:  $185,000
Buyer:  Elizabeth A Meaux
Seller:  Patrick J Mignault
Date:  09/04/13

63 Gold St 74 Clark St
Belchertown,  MA  01007
Amount:  $260,000
Buyer:  Jeffrey M Matthews
Seller:  Dennis Gendron
Date:  08/28/13

241 Daniel Shays Hwy
Belchertown,  MA  01007
Amount:  $275,000
Buyer:  Jacob Sobasko
Seller:  Paul M Roberge
Date:  08/30/13

Belchertown,  MA  01007
Amount:  $150,000
Buyer:  Nathaniel W Roberts
Seller:  Randall E Roberts
Date:  09/06/13

56 North Main St
Belchertown,  MA  01007
Amount:  $170,000
Buyer:  Umass Five College FCU
Seller:  Steven A Syriac
Date:  09/04/13

149 Turkey Hill Rd
Belchertown,  MA  01007
Amount:  $225,000
Buyer:  Jonathan A Lawall
Seller:  James P O’Connor
Date:  09/03/13

CHESTERFIELD

115 Old Chesterfield Rd
Chesterfield,  MA  01096
Amount:  $187,500
Buyer:  Geoffery Gougeon
Seller:  Jack Gougeon
Date:  09/04/13

EASTHAMPTON

21 Ballard St
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $185,000
Buyer:  Tsering Choedon
Seller:  Autumn Priperties LLC
Date:  08/29/13

22 Bayberry Dr
Amount:  $189,000
Buyer:  Mary Redmond
Seller:  Mary Redmond
Date:  08/26/13

35 Briggs St
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $335,000
Buyer:  Benjamin F Chandler
Seller:  Kevin C Netto
Date:  08/28/13

114 Line St
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $216,000
Buyer:  Jason P Graham
Seller:  Cathleen R Hutkowski
Date:  08/30/13

223 Loudville Rd
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $185,000
Buyer:  Gabriel J Grygorcewicz
Seller:  Joseph P Loftus
Date:  08/28/13

3 Mutter St
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $194,500
Buyer:  Margaret J Shar
Seller:  Darla D Ledger
Date:  08/30/13

55 Northampton St
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $270,000
Buyer:  Jennifer M Dragon
Seller:  Marc A Gauvin RET
Date:  08/28/13

28 Pepin Ave
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $232,500
Buyer:  Barbara Kelly-Kinney
Seller:  David J Strong
Date:  09/05/13

10 Pine Hill Rd
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $310,000
Buyer:  James R Pellegrino
Seller:  Walter J Bourque
Date:  08/30/13

17 River Valley Way
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $125,000
Buyer:  Jenna B Higgins
Seller:  EH Honeownership LLC
Date:  08/28/13

7 Union Ct
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $150,000
Buyer:  Joseph C Ryan
Seller:  Union Court LLC
Date:  08/28/13

11 West Green St
Easthampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $124,015
Buyer:  US Bank NA
Seller:  Michael J Pelissier
Date:  08/27/13

GOSHEN

29 Lake Dr
Goshen,  MA  01096
Amount:  $205,000
Buyer:  Dorothy A Clayton
Seller:  Fred M Sliwa
Date:  08/30/13

GRANBY

34 Amherst St
Granby,  MA  01033
Amount:  $318,000
Buyer:  Celso A Correia
Seller:  Mikhail Ashlaban
Date:  09/05/13

30 Circle Dr
Granby,  MA  01033
Amount:  $224,900
Buyer:  Scott J Lougham
Seller:  Kevin R Gendreau
Date:  08/27/13

230 East St
Granby,  MA  01033
Amount:  $200,000
Buyer:  Westover Metropolitan Dev
Seller:  Thomas C Labrie
Date:  09/05/13

9 Greenmeadow Ln
Granby,  MA  01033
Amount:  $185,000
Buyer:  David A Strycharz
Seller:  Linda T Messenger
Date:  08/30/13

37 New Ludlow Rd
Granby,  MA  01033
Amount:  $156,000
Buyer:  Candice Rosado-Cuoco
Seller:  Mark T Halon
Date:  08/30/13

64 West St
Granby,  MA  01033
Amount:  $135,000
Buyer:  Careena R Henry
Seller:  Diana J Blanchard
Date:  08/28/13

HADLEY

7 Edgewood Ter
Hadley,  MA  01035
Amount:  $370,000
Buyer:  Linda M Ziegenbein
Seller:  Patricia A Szumowski
Date:  09/06/13

1 Laurana Ln
Hadley,  MA  01035
Amount:  $334,000
Buyer:  Aaron T Soules
Seller:  Paul R Miller
Date:  08/30/13

211 Russell St
Hadley,  MA  01035
Amount:  $185,000
Buyer:  Huong C Chow
Seller:  Patricia J Zumbruski
Date:  08/27/13

HATFIELD

11 Cronin Hill Rd
Hatfield,  MA  01038
Amount:  $210,000
Buyer:  Mary P Flannery
Seller:  Kenneth R Griswold
Date:  08/30/13

112 Linseed Rd
Hatfield,  MA  01088
Amount:  $419,000
Buyer:  Sally Morgan
Seller:  Shawn R Adams
Date:  08/26/13

35 Plain Rd
Hatfield,  MA  01038
Amount:  $374,000
Buyer:  Sean M Brady
Seller:  Robert P Anderson
Date:  08/30/13

58 School St
Hatfield,  MA  01038
Amount:  $280,000
Buyer:  Morgan Sheehan-Bubla
Seller:  Janet Grenzke
Date:  09/06/13

240 Straits Rd
Hatfield,  MA  01038
Amount:  $235,000
Buyer:  Andrea K Moroney
Seller:  Audrey Weston
Date:  08/30/13

HUNTINGTON

11 Pleasant St
Huntington,  MA  01050
Amount:  $115,479
Buyer:  UB Properties LLC
Seller:  United Bank
Date:  09/05/13

NORTHAMPTON

8 Arch St
Northampton,  MA  01053
Amount:  $245,000
Buyer:  Elizabeth K Harrington
Seller:  Susan A Eilenberg
Date:  08/27/13

41 Avis Cir
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $384,000
Buyer:  Daniel C Rochon
Seller:  Gregory J Zakrzewski
Date:  08/26/13

326 Chesterfield Rd
Northampton,  MA  01053
Amount:  $305,000
Buyer:  Susan A Elienberg
Seller:  Ernest J Heon
Date:  08/27/13

264 Chestnut St
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $374,000
Buyer:  Denise L Callaway
Seller:  George C Eastman
Date:  08/30/13

35 Ellington Rd
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $214,000
Buyer:  Michael R Wolk
Seller:  John A Favaro
Date:  09/06/13

335 Florence Rd
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $317,000
Buyer:  Lauren Schwartz
Seller:  Jessica L Diemand
Date:  08/30/13

717 Florence Rd
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $225,000
Buyer:  David S Smokler
Seller:  Joseph T Tortoriello
Date:  08/30/13

48 Fort St
Northampton,  MA  01060
Amount:  $395,000
Buyer:  Steven T Hoffman
Seller:  William J Conz
Date:  09/03/13

67 Fort St
Northampton,  MA  01060
Amount:  $600,000
Buyer:  Amanda Barnhart
Seller:  Louise F Vera
Date:  08/29/13

99 Lake St
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $309,000
Buyer:  Eugene B Ferrari
Seller:  Linda M Ziegenbein
Date:  09/06/13

111 Old Ferry Rd
Northampton,  MA  01060
Amount:  $245,000
Buyer:  Jillian M Niedzwiecki
Seller:  James B Frutkin
Date:  09/06/13

20 Rick Dr
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $200,000
Buyer:  Ethan C Meyers
Seller:  Janeth C Smith
Date:  08/27/13

245 South St
Northampton,  MA  01060
Amount:  $325,000
Buyer:  DNB Properties LLC
Seller:  Pipeline Properties Inc
Date:  09/06/13

250 South St
Northampton,  MA  01060
Amount:  $510,000
Buyer:  Michael C Jacques
Seller:  Timothy J Flynn
Date:  09/05/13

38 Spruce Hill Ave
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $230,000
Buyer:  Carol A Heon
Seller:  Steele RET
Date:  08/27/13

38 Stilson Ave
Northampton,  MA  01062
Amount:  $250,000
Buyer:  David B Champoux
Seller:  Scott E Purcell
Date:  08/28/13

17 Union St
Northampton,  MA  01060
Amount:  $499,000
Buyer:  Brian P Mcdermott
Seller:  Lisa C Gustavsen
Date:  09/06/13

93 Vernon St
Northampton,  MA  01060
Amount:  $287,500
Buyer:  Mahammed A Mack
Seller:  Arthur P Fugere
Date:  08/28/13

6 Wright Ave
Northampton,  MA  01060
Amount:  $140,000
Buyer:  John W Kowalski
Seller:  Weeks, Russell C Est
Date:  08/26/13

PELHAM

11 Bray Ct
Pelham,  MA  01002
Amount:  $230,000
Buyer:  Shawn R Adams
Seller:  Daniel C Rose
Date:  08/26/13

PLAINFIELD

8 Old South St
Plainfield,  MA  01070
Amount:  $249,900
Seller:  Edgar J Drake
Date:  08/30/13

SOUTH HADLEY

518 Amherst Rd
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $199,900
Buyer:  Jose G Guaregua
Seller:  Daniel C Rochon
Date:  08/26/13

50 Brigham Rd
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $187,000
Buyer:  Kristin L Will
Seller:  Will Kathryn B Est
Date:  08/28/13

15 Cedar Rdg
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $362,500
Buyer:  Susannah E Gregory
Seller:  Wayne J Konrad
Date:  08/30/13

35 Chapel Hill Dr
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $259,000
Buyer:  Raeann L Pelletier
Seller:  Paul R Gallagher
Date:  09/03/13

6 Dale St
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $143,000
Buyer:  John E Cole
Seller:  StSauveur Lillian V Est
Date:  09/06/13

280 Granby Rd
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $575,000
Buyer:  33 Granby Road LLC
Seller:  Robert Bolduc
Date:  08/30/13

21 Hillside Ave
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $242,000
Buyer:  Kevin M Sawula
Seller:  Carolyn L Bessette
Date:  09/05/13

20 Meadowood Dr
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $266,388
Buyer:  Vincent Muto
Seller:  Carolanne Bright
Date:  08/30/13

149 North Main St
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $180,500
Buyer:  Michael L Thomas
Seller:  Mark Morsbach
Date:  08/30/13

25 North Sycamore Knls
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $250,000
Buyer:  Thomas R Reidy
Seller:  Rorke Glenna F Est
Date:  08/28/13

154 South Main St
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $174,000
Buyer:  Frank R Sousa
Seller:  Matthew L Gomberg
Date:  09/03/13

1 West Summit St
South Hadley,  MA  01075
Amount:  $193,000
Buyer:  Michael F Willard
Seller:  Jose C Larouco
Date:  08/29/13

SOUTHAMPTON

31 Bissonnette Cir
Southampton,  MA  01073
Amount:  $375,000
Buyer:  James J Fitzgibbon
Seller:  F&G Development Corp
Date:  09/06/13

170 County Rd
Southampton,  MA  01073
Amount:  $236,300
Buyer:  Jessica L Diemand
Seller:  Kevin M Kuehner
Date:  08/30/13

15 Edward Ave
Southampton,  MA  01073
Amount:  $332,000
Buyer:  Paul J Murray
Seller:  James L Podolak
Date:  08/28/13

124 Fomer Rd
Southampton,  MA  01073
Amount:  $239,000
Buyer:  Bernard J Martin
Seller:  Joshua R Donovan
Date:  08/30/13

77 Glendale Rd
Southampton,  MA  01073
Amount:  $336,900
Buyer:  Jennifer L Donais
Seller:  Karen A Ciejek
Date:  08/30/13

53 Middle Rd
Southampton,  MA  01073
Amount:  $253,000
Buyer:  Ashley J Alexander
Seller:  Christopher J Graham
Date:  08/30/13

25 Montgomery Rd
Southampton,  MA  01073
Amount:  $265,000
Buyer:  Richard R Paul
Seller:  Jeffrey C Barry
Date:  08/27/13

N/A
Southampton,  MA  01073
Amount:  $389,000
Buyer:  Sean P Fitzgerald
Seller:  F&G Development Corp
Date:  08/30/13

WARE

24 Berkshire Dr
Ware,  MA  01082
Amount:  $195,000
Buyer:  Andre M Fernades
Seller:  Elena L Simmoneau
Date:  08/30/13

71 Greenwich Rd
Ware,  MA  01082
Amount:  $160,000
Buyer:  Carolyn Bessette
Seller:  Provencal NT
Date:  09/05/13

WESTHAMPTON

296 Main Rd
Westhampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $125,000
Buyer:  Tammies Warriner
Seller:  Francis J Cote
Date:  09/05/13

61 Stage Rd
Westhampton,  MA  01027
Amount:  $150,000
Buyer:  Robin Smilie
Date:  08/27/13

WILLIAMSBURG

16 Nash Hill Rd
Williamsburg,  MA  01096
Amount:  $375,000
Buyer:  Mark R Chrabascz
Seller:  Peter R Trechartin
Date:  08/29/13

WORTHINGTON

1104 Old North Rd
Worthington,  MA  01098
Amount:  $195,000
Buyer:  Michael E Stevenson
Seller:  Matthew J White
Date:  09/03/13

335 Old Post Rd
Worthington,  MA  01098
Amount:  $570,000
Buyer:  Taylor FT
Seller:  Robert W Fondakowski
Date:  09/03/13

Sprouting Event

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Holiday Party Planner Sections
Explosive Growth Fuels a Building Boom at Lattitude

Jeff Daigneau

Jeff Daigneau says creativity and hard work have helped Lattitude grow, to the point where the restaurant thrives even during the challenging Big E weeks.

Jeff Daigneau doesn’t know how many times he’s told the story. But he does know that it never gets old.
He was referring to what has become local culinary legend of sorts, the saga of how the most unlikely, but now the most popular, item on the menu at his restaurant, Lattitude, came to be.
“I messed up during the Big E in 2008 and dropped a bunch of brussels sprouts in the frialator,” said Daigneau, owner and chef at the establishment on Memorial Avenue in West Springfield, directly across from the fairgrounds. He put what came out of the frialator on the bar for consumption — and they didn’t last long.
“Now, they’re the hottest thing going — everybody’s serving them,” he told BusinessWest, adding that the vegetable that so many people love to hate has become his eatery’s signature appetizer — and an unofficial logo of sorts.
Indeed, the vegetable now adorns the back of his business card and the company’s letterhead, and it will soon be on T-shirts to be worn by the staff.
No one calls Lattitude the ‘house that Brussels sprouts built,’ but they might as well — it’s not much of an exaggeration. But the house was actually built by creativity, patience, and perseverance, and because all three have been exhibited in abundance, the house is getting bigger.
Much bigger.
The restaurant, which sits in the middle of what was a large, multi-tenant building that Daigneau now owns, is expanding in several directions within that complex. An outdoor patio bar featuring live music was added this summer on the west side of the property. Meanwhile, an 80-seat banquet facility will open in formerly vacant space on the east side of building in mid-November, and a new, much larger bar area, to be created in space formerly occupied by Memo’s restaurant on the west side of the building, is in the design phase. In the original restaurant, space is being reconfigured, and private meeting rooms are being expanded.
The ambitious series of undertakings, highlighted by the recent installation of a new ‘Lattitude’ sign made of brushed copper, could be called a testimony to the power of fried brussels sprouts. But it’s more of an indication of how the restaurant has become a fixture only a few years after barely surviving its first fall in the shadow of the Big E (more on that later).
“It’s really flattering that people think that much of us,” he said, noting that his experiences to date have been a giant learning curve. “I’ve been doing this since I was 13 years old; I’m 36 now, and every single day I learn something new.”
For this issue and its focus on holiday party planning, BusinessWest looks at what Daigneau’s learned, and how he’s applied those lessons effectively enough to make Lattitude one of the region’s more intriguing business success stories.

Keep the Party Going

Lattitude added an outdoor patio bar this year

Lattitude added an outdoor patio bar this year, where patrons can enjoy live music.

Retelling another story he’s related often, Daigneau said that, during his first fall on Memorial Avenue, he decided to stay open during the 17-day Big E when most all other restaurants in that area shut things down.
They close because the exposition has a tendency to drain traffic from such establishments rather than create it. Many long-time patrons of those eateries also decide they’re not going to fight Big E traffic and dine elsewhere instead.
Daigneau’s decision nearly put him out of business, by his calculation, but the experience provided an important lesson. Today, instead of trying to compete with, or simply survive, the Big E, he is effectively partnering with it. At least that’s the term he uses.
Elaborating, he said he’s learned how to cater his menu and his entertainment to the two primary constituencies at the Big E — visitors to the show and the vendors who often arrive days before it opens and are still packing up long after it ends.
The key to mastering the Big E, said Daigneau, has been a combination of offering a more relaxed atmosphere during fair weeks, especially for vendors, and offering a variety of live bands, food and drink specials, and promo nights, as an extension of what’s already going on over at the Big E.
“I’m not going to get everybody, so I put posters in the windows for events we’re going to have,” he explained. “I try to do things that would bring people in the door.
“I’m not stepping on anybody’s toes,” he went on. “The vendors just want a place to get out and get something to eat, because otherwise, they’re cooking in their campers.”
This imaginative approach to navigating through late September is just one element in Daigneau’s success quotient. And it’s part of a larger operating philosophy of listening to customers and potential customers and giving them want they want — even if, in the case of those Brussels sprouts, they didn’t know they wanted it.
And in recent years, what he consistently heard from patrons is that they want more — as in more space, more options, and more venues for different types of events.
The elaborate renovations and new building initiatives are designed to meet all those needs.
As a lessee, Daigneau had to look at the unattractive yellow stucco plaster on the outside of the building, but now the contemporary-style improvements have made the choppy architecture look like a cohesive city block, he said, which matches the elegance and creative quality of what’s happening inside.
The entire east side of the building is being renovated for banquets; the bathrooms are moving to the west side, the dining room will be expanded to accommodate 120 people, and two new rooms, for up to 12 and 30 patrons, respectively, are ready, or will be, for the holidays. The small, cramped kitchen was expanded recently, and a new catering kitchen is under construction.
“Our off-site catering is going to explode with that new kitchen,” said Daigneau, noting that what started as a few scattered requests for Lattitude menu items has morphed into a solid business opportunity with enormous potential.
The same could be said for banquet, or large-party, business, said Jamie Cardoza, Daigneau’s event specialist. “People were asking for larger venues, and we had to essentially turn business away,” she said.
Daigneau said there were enough of these requests to inspire the new banquet facility. “We had guest requests for parties of 50, 80, or 100,” he noted. “And it just grew into, ‘well, I own the building now; what do we want to do?’”
Plans for the rest of the building, specifically the old Memo’s area, are in the process of being designed. Daigneau said the second floor of the building will remain his office area and won’t be leased out.
While Daigneau’s original plan was to do all the work at once, he ultimately opted to phase it in, a decision that, in retrospect, has worked out well because disruption has been controlled and the impact on the overall business has been minimized.
And in a way, the new look and feel of Lattitude is consistent with Daigneau’s philosophy of continuously changing and reinventing to keep things fresh.
Indeed, while other restaurant owners and managers are loath to remove an item from the menu, Daigneau is fearful of letting his menu get stale.
He said the typical response from his staff when he changes up the menu is, ‘are you out of your mind?’
“But if you’re not moving and shaking and you’re not changing things up, people are going to get bored, and things are going to get stale,” he explained. “The menu has to change, and the staff has to stay fresh, or there are a million opportunities for our customers to go somewhere else.”
One dish that has to make a seasonal appearance every year is his pumpkin ravioli with seared scallops and walnut sage cream sauce.
“It’s the most popular dish we’ve ever done, and it’s one of those things I just can’t take off, and if I do, I get threatened,” he said with a sardonic smile.
It’s the same look he gives his staff when he tells them what he has in mind for his popular dinner series on the third Monday of every month, an event that offers a five-course dinner, with a different cocktail paired with each course.

Room For Dessert
Late last month, Daigneau served as the ‘celebrity professional judge’ for a Big E bread and dessert contest featuring creations fashioned from Fleischmann’s yeast.
That assignment speaks not only to his new outlook on the Big E as partner, not competitor, but also to just how far he has come in five years — from a chef with a dream to an entrepreneur with a dining destination in the midst of exploding growth.
The brussels sprouts on his business card have become a symbol of that success, and so has the new sign over his door.
“It’s finally gotten to the point where I can look up to that sign and say, ‘you know what? I did OK.’”
Actually, much better than OK.

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected].

Court Dockets

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The following is a compilation of recent lawsuits involving area businesses and organizations. These are strictly allegations that have yet to be proven in a court of law. Readers are advised to contact the parties listed, or the court, for more information concerning the individual claims.

CHICOPEE DISTRICT COURT
Diane Bynum v. Metro Auto Sales, d/b/a Metro Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram
Allegation: Deceptive and unfair practices: $24,000
Filed: 8/20/13

FRANKLIN SUPERIOR COURT
Eliza Greene Smith v. Farm Table Inc. and Brent Menke
Allegation: Plaintiff seeks restitution for full share of proceeds from tips earned: $25,000+
Filed: 8/2/13

Vermont Mutual Insurance Co., as subrogee of Derek Berkquist v. Frigidaire, Inc.
Allegation: Subrogation action where a defective water valve in a new washing machine caused substantial property damage: $40,635.26
Filed: 7/11/13

GREENFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Freedom Credit Union v. Woods and Lawns Inc. and William A. Woods
Allegation: Default on promissory note: $9,712.74
Filed: 8/16/13

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Absolute Construction, LLC v. G.M. Crisalli & Associates, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and W/S Westfield Properties Inc.
Allegation: Construction claim and mechanics lien: $221,548.80
Filed: 9/12/13

Batesville Casket Co. Inc. v. Robert E. Cusack Funeral Home Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract and failure to pay on promissory note: $24,530.95
Filed: 8/22/13

Connecticut Pie Inc. v. Connecticut Packaging Inc.
Allegation: Breach of contract by providing plaintiff with defective product: $750,000
Filed: 8/27/13

Cypress Financial Recoveries, LLC, as subrogee of Wells Fargo Bank v. Watson Building/Remodeling and Prescott Watson
Allegation: Breach of credit agreement: $32,544.78
Filed: 7/22/13

People’s United Bank v. Connecticut Valley Block Co. Inc., James L. Delgrego, and Hubert White
Allegation: Failure to pay promissory note: $451,638.76
Filed: 8/6/13

Rebecca Budd v. Mary Kay Cosmetics
Allegation: Plaintiff seeks relief for injuries sustained while using a defective product: $105,000
Filed: 9/13/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Beacon Sales Co. v. TLC Exterior, LLC and Thomas J. Leonard
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $5,492.92
Filed: 8/1/13

Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. New England Plumbing & Heating Inc.
Allegation: Non-payment of workers’ compensation policy: $8,540.34
Filed: 8/27/13

Universal Recycling Technologies, LLC v. Marc A. Brown, d/b/a Total Tech Recycling Co.
Allegation: Non-payment of services rendered, unjust enrichment, and account annexed: $17,085.25
Filed: 8/27/13

WESTFIELD DISTRICT COURT
HIBU Inc. f/k/a Yellow Book Sales and Distribution Inc. v. Gold Star Restorations Inc.
Allegation: Money due for previous judgment: $66,789.46
Filed: 8/12/13

Community Profile: Deerfield

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Deerfield Touts Tourism, Agriculture, Business

Deerfield, MassBela Breslau opened Bela’s Bed and Breakfast in June, and the Deerfield entrepreneur has already had guests from as far away as Korea.
“I’ve met the nicest people. They have come here from New York City for a wedding and for events such as school graduations,” she said, adding that her business has done well and she has received support from area residents. “The town officials here are positive to work with, and everyone has been very thoughtful because they want you to succeed.
“Deerfield is a really good place to do business,” she added, explaining that she and her husband, Stephen Bliss, also own and operate a martial-arts school on their property, where they teach the Japanese body movement known as shin tai do.
The couple moved to Deerfield from San Rafael, Calif. in 2004, and they love the town. “It’s a beautiful place with a lot to do and see,” Breslau said.
Carolynn Shores Ness, who was on the town’s Planning Board for 21 years, has had a seat on the Board of Selectman for 11 years, and is chair of the Board of Health, says the Breslaus’ story has been repeated many times in this community, and location is one of many reasons why.
“A lot of traffic comes through town, and we have a lot of tourist attractions,” she said, noting that Deerfield is a crossroads for Interstate 91, Routes 5 and 10, and Route 116.
Max Hartshorne agrees. “We really do promote Deerfield as a tourist destination,” said the former owner of GoNomad Café, who now owns a travel publishing business he operates from his Deerfield home. “Tourism here is strong. Yankee Candle is the number-two destination in the state, Historic Deerfield is legendary, and Deerfield Academy is really pretty.”

Gideon Porth

Gideon Porth says Deerfield’s access to highways and land availability are two factors that make it an attractive location for agricultural businesses.

Shores Ness said that, while the town has but 5,100 residents, 2 million people visit Yankee Candle each year. She also cites Historic Deerfield, which includes the Memorial Hall Museum and Flynt Center of Early New England Life, which feature constantly changing exhibits and workshops; Magic Wings Butterfly Conservatory and Gallery; and Mount Sugarloaf Park in South Deerfield, “which has absolutely wonderful views and allows people to walk the length of Pocumtuck Ridge,” as other popular tourist attractions.
In addition, there are the annual Old Deerfield Craft Fairs, which take place every spring and fall and draw between 30,000 and 50,000 visitors, along with the town’s Music in Deerfield chamber series and its gun clubs.
“The Franklin County League of Sportsman’s Club is here, and the South Deerfield Rod and Gun Club are also important to the community,” said Shores Ness, adding that the latter holds fishing events and turkey shoots. “There are also a lot of cultural activities that happen here year-round. And we have three boarding schools with a lot of activity, as well as many nonprofits.”

Room for Growth
Many of the town’s businesses have expanded over the past few years, and an expedited permitting process for a town-owned, 16-acre tract of land with sewer and water hookups has been approved for commercial or industrial use.
Opportunity also exists in a variety of other areas. “There are empty buildings downtown, and plenty of space is available,” Hartshorne said. “Although it’s a very sleepy downtown, a lot of traffic passes through it.”
He added that Mosaic Café is set to open this month at the site of the former, well-known Elm Farm Bakery, while Hillside Creamery, which sells ice cream and food, also opened on Elm Street. In addition, there is a new empty building across the street, which would make a great store, he said. “It has post-and-beam construction and a large parking lot.
“Plus, the Bank of America branch on Sugarloaf Street also closed recently, which has a vault and drive-through and would make a great location for another bank,” Hartshorne continued. “Permitting here is really easy, and people are friendly and helpful. It’s a crossroads town, taxes are really low, and the town officials are interested in helping new businesses grow.”
Shores Ness said space and buildings are also available in the town’s industrial park.
And although the tourist business makes up a large part of the town’s economy, the East Railroad Yard has undergone tremendous growth.
The town’s agricultural base has always has been strong, and Hartshorne said town officials are looking to the future. “Some farmers have approached them about growing marijuana, and their response has been positive.”
Shores Ness added that UMass has active agricultural and turf programs in town. “They have really ramped up, and there are a lot of experimental fields and classroom research being done in Deerfield,” she told BusinessWest.
Gideon Porth agrees. In 2004, he purchased three acres of farmland in Deerfield and began an enterprise known as Atlas Farm. It has doubled in size every year, and Porth recently purchased an additional 45 acres and opened a year-round farm stand that sells the organic produce grown on his 95-acre property, along with other local products.
“Business has been good, and we have definitely exceeded our sales estimate,” he said, adding that the town’s access to highways and resulting proximity to metropolitan markets such as Boston, where he does a lot of wholesale business, makes it an even more attractive place to establish a farm.
“The town is very supportive of agriculture, and this is one of the few spots in New England with prime land and soil for growing vegetables,” said Porth, who came to the area from Boston when he was a graduate student at UMass Amherst.
In addition, the town takes a proactive stance on capital improvements. Current projects include the replacement and relining of sewer lines as well as streetscape planning being done for the village of South Deerfield.

Keeping Pace
Shores Ness noted that Deerfield is a green community and has signed up with the Hampshire Power Municipal Aggregation group, which will eventually allow the town to buy power at a discounted rate. In addition, a stretch energy code was approved during a recent town meeting; it requires the use of energy-efficient measures in renovations and new construction. “We also encourage conservation throughout the town,” she said.
Measures have also been taken to mitigate the effects of weather emergencies, such as Tropical Storm Irene in 2011 and the freak Halloween snowstorm the same year, which had an adverse effect on land and property in Deerfield.
Town officials have applied for grants to do restoration work along the Deerfield River. “And we’re working with FEMA and MEMA to become a more resilient community so we won’t be as affected by weather events. We also offer a free, drive-through flu clinic on Oct. 6 at Yankee Candle,” Shores Ness said, adding that several hundred volunteers work with the town’s medical disaster-response team.
Laurie Nivison, director of marketing for Historic Deerfield, said Champney’s Restaurant inside the Deerfield Inn reopened in April after being closed for 18 months as a result of flooding from Tropical Storm Irene.
“The restaurant and inn underwent extensive renovations and restorations. We expanded the tavern area from 10 to 20 seats, have a new menu, and are farm to table. We have partnerships with local farms and get our pork and beef from Yazwinski Farm in Deerfield,” she said, adding that they also serve beverages made at Berkshire Brewing in Deerfield as well as other local breweries.
“Even though Deerfield may seem like it’s off the beaten path, people come here year-round,” she continued. “Historic Deerfield gets about 15,000 tourists each year, and it’s a really vibrant community; people don’t realize how much there is to see and do in town. It’s a great place to come and spend the day.”
Hartshorne said the fall is a busy season in town, but winter is also fruitful because people drive through Deerfield or pass by on their way to ski areas in Vermont.
“There are also events such as a bike ride known as D2R2, which attracts about 1,000 cyclists every year,” he said, adding that cyclists have their choice of an 80- or 100-mile route.
In fact, there is so much to see and do that, in 2008, Hartshorne worked with the tourist attractions in town and created the website deerfieldattractions.com to allow people to find out about the fairs, shopping, dining, recreation, museums, and other activities that take place in Deerfield throughout the year. He also coordinated an annual Tag Sale Day that takes place the first Saturday in October.
“We try to get everyone in town who is holding a tag sale to do it on that day,” he explained. “We create a Google map on the website every year so people can find where the sales are.”

Vibrant Economy
Shores Ness says many businesses in Deerfield have formed strong partnerships with the town, and it’s a reciprocal arrangement, as officials do all they can to help them.
“People here communicate well with each other, which is something we have encouraged,” she said. “There is a constant stream of really interesting and exciting things that are always happening in Deerfield. It’s just a wonderful place to live and work, and we welcome new neighbors and want to keep and encourage the businesses that have made a long-term commitment here.”

Charting Progress

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Demand for Architectural Services Grows in Private Sector

Siegfried Porth

Siegfried Porth says he has seen an upswing this year in additions, renovations, and new homes.

John Kuhn says the number of projects on his firm’s books has increased over the past year. However, “I don’t expect to go back to the glory days,” added the president of Kuhn Riddle Architects in Amherst, adding that clients today are more cost-conscious, conservative, and careful than they were prior to the economic downturn in 2008. “But, lately, business has been good.”
Walter Cudnohufsky of Walter Cudnohufsky Associates Inc. in Ashfield agrees, and describes the upturn in business as noticeable and positive. “We have a number of new residential projects,” he said, noting that the jobs are significant because work in real estate dried up for a long period of time. “Things began to pick up last year and have gotten better this year, and our work now also includes municipal and industrial projects.”
After weathering a difficult period, Tom Douglas of Thomas Douglas Architects Inc. in Northampton is also busy again. “Things started to even out about six months ago and really improve, and we have more work now than we can handle,” he said. “People are more willing to spend, and it seems as if access to money has become easier. It takes longer to get funding in place, but people are doing it. We’ve done design work for a lot of restaurants, and there has also been a significant increase in residential work.”
Siegfried Porth of Porth Architects in Easthampton concurred. “Right now I am straight out,” he said. “There has definitely been a big upturn in demand in the last year for new residences, additions, and reconstructions. And some of the jobs I have are major — $300,000 or $400,000 home additions. Ultimately, it’s cheaper to add on if you like where you live and have enough land.”
Bruce Coldham said that, although housing has always been his firm’s mainstay, jobs at local colleges have helped sustain the workflow over the last year. There have also been renovations of homes and office space, as well as projects requested by institutional investors who own multi-family dwellings and want to improve energy efficiency or stay in compliance with changing building codes.
“They are not all poster projects,” said the principal of Coldham & Hartman Architects in Amherst. “But business has been improving slowly and steadily, and we keep getting clients. Some of our colleagues were hit harder than we were, and many architects have had to move from one firm to another.”
Kuhn agrees. “Some people were hit worse than others,” he noted. “We felt the effects of the downturn, but not that severely. Work has been steady, but it’s very competitive.”

Staying Solvent
Indeed, the uptick in project volume hasn’t come about overnight. Several years ago, Porth said, there was so little work that 60% of the architects in Boston were laid off, and many firms went out of business.
And Douglas referred to 2009 and 2010 as “pretty lean times. We had to lay off one person and reduce some employees to part-time, but we had enough work to make ends meet. We were fortunate to get a few new jobs back then.”
One project, involving the renovation of three buildings in Greenfield, was made possible due to historic and new-markets tax credits. Others combined volunteer labor and paid work, including Northampton’s Academy of Music and Forbes Library. “I helped them raise money,” Douglas said.
His firm has also done much work at Smith College, although those jobs dwindled in 2009 and 2010. But the situation wasn’t disastrous, as Douglas used the time to renovate the building he purchased in 2009 that houses his business today.
In 2010, he was hired to design a renovation of the Garden Theater in downtown Greenfield. “Unfortunately, they were unable to pay the bulk of the fee,” Douglas recalled. “It was a very difficult year.”
The picture was similar across the board.
“It was like being on a rollercoaster,” said Douglas. “We would have an incredibly heavy workload for six months, then spend six months not knowing if we would get work. It was very, very difficult to project further than four to six months out.”
There were also an untold number of architects seeking employment. “They were willing to work part-time, and there was a lot of great talent out there. But it was very difficult to project how much work you would have,” Douglas said.
Cudnohufsky also suffered. He had to let several employees go and said it took “heroic efforts” to save his company.
Kuhn said the entire construction industry was hit, and in addition to the loss of any work in certain sectors, many projects were put on hold.

Tom Douglas

Tom Douglas says business is increasing, and so is the diversity of projects his firm is tackling.

Coldham said he is happy that he was able to retain employees, thanks to programs that allowed them to collect partial unemployment benefits. “It meant we could keep everyone until work resumed,” he said, adding that the extra time off allowed at least one employee to complete a graduate degree, and once things improved, he was able to add two people to his staff.
And although the outlook is brighter, many architects feel it is too early to project whether demand will continue to rise.
“But people are building and investing in their properties again,” Porth said. “Things didn’t look very good last Christmas, but this has ended up being a very fine year. Business has been slowly picking up, and right now I have 40 jobs in process.”
Douglas agreed. “The work is slowly starting to pick up,” he said, adding that his firm is now doing a lot of design work for restaurants and hotels.
Still, there are no guarantees. “There has been a definite improvement, but it is not meteoritic by any means,” Coldham said.
Kuhn concurred. “When people take a big hit, it takes years for confidence to come back,” he said.
“Everyone is a little more gun shy.”

Varied Workplace
Today, architectural services are being sought for diverse projects, another trend that bodes well for an industry that saw many sectors fall back or nearly shut down during the recession.
“We just bid on a renovation in North Adams for a group of railroad warehouses,” Douglas said. “We’ve also done three or four restaurant interiors in the past six months, and are wrapping up a new conference-center building in Hadley. We designed a new restaurant in Worcester, and are working on the renovation of a conference center for Smith College and a project for Northampton Arts Trust, which will include a new theater, performance space, and galleries in a building they are purchasing.”
Porth’s working portfolio includes projects in Holyoke and the conversion of an Easthampton tractor-trailer building into a multi-use structure. “We’re also converting an old warehouse into multi-use space and renovating a five-story factory building for commercial purposes,” he said, adding that the projects are large and include new walls, electrical, heating, and other improvements.
Porth is also the architect for the Eastworks Mill in Easthampton. “Half the residential units on the top floor are rented, and we’re starting phase 2,” he said, explaining that the units were designed as live/work spaces so entrepreneurs can operate home-based businesses in them.
Porth is also involved with ongoing projects for Open Square in Holyoke and has four major residential projects — additions and renovations — on the books as well.
“A lot of people are adding in-law apartments or family rooms, and we’re building a huge wine cellar in one home,” he said. “Plus, we just got work today on a new office building in Easthampton. There will be offices on the first floor and residential space on the second floor.”
Other jobs include designing a 160-by-120-foot metal building in Holyoke that will be used to service trucks and a new, two story office building in Florence.
Cudnohufsky is also busy. He began work on Main Street in Great Barrington in 2009, and that project has been ongoing. Other large regional projects include Monument Mills in Housatonic, which consists of several buildings totaling 250,000 square feet, and the design of a major structure in Fitchburg. He also has jobs in New York and Boston. “We have a whole range of work on historic properties, which gives us a really nice mix.”
Markets that have undergone a revival include the restaurant business. “We’ve seen a real upswing in people wanting to put money into them recently,” Douglas said.
And other sectors are growing as well, Porth said. “People are buying commercial buildings in Northampton, Westfield — everywhere in the Valley. Holyoke is up and coming, and people are buying mill buildings in Easthampton, so there is a lot of ongoing activity.”
Coldham’s firm tends to work with clients creating spaces heavily populated by people, such as schools, libraries, and offices. “If people like the space they are in, they tend to stay at their jobs longer and are more productive, which are benefits that come from high-performance buildings,” he said.
His company’s projects range from a new development with more than 20 homes to the transformation of a 100-year-old, five-story mill building in Lawrence into 60 residential units.

Moving Forward
Designs today almost always involve green-building concepts, and one noteworthy trend is the demand for reasonably sized, energy-efficient homes.
“The new generation wants to be green, and we are drawing a lot of smaller houses, due to the cost,” Porth said. “We used to design McMansions that were 5,000 or 6,000 square feet, but today the trend is to go smaller. People want energy-efficient homes that are no larger than 2,500 square feet.”
Cudnohofsky founded and ran the Conway School of Landscaping Design for 20 years and says his firm has always been at the forefront of sustainable ideas and projects. He told BusinessWest that green building has been fueled by revisions in building codes that keep the technology moving forward.
Douglas agreed, adding that salespeople tout how much recycled material their products contain or where their furniture was made. “Material suppliers volunteer the information. You don’t even have to ask about it.”
Kuhn said the combination of new stretch codes and people’s sensitivity to energy conservation has resulted in a new norm. “The standards keep getting much more stringent,” he said, adding that new developments have gone from LEED to net-zero building to the Living Building Challenge, which encompasses the most rigid green-energy initiatives that can be put into place. However, few projects that meet those standards have been done locally, because the work is complex and not financially feasible for most clients.
Coldham & Hartman has completed several co-housing projects and earned recognition for innovative work across the nation. It is one of the only local firms that has built zero-net-energy homes, which generate as much energy as they use. “We’ve done four or five of them,” Coldham said.
However, some jobs continue to be expansive as Baby Boomers seek modifications to their homes. For example, Porth designed a 2,000-square-foot addition for an aging couple who wanted a master bedroom on their first floor. “People are also putting in elevators so they can stay in their homes,” he said, noting that some families are selling their parents’ homes and creating space for them via renovations or additions.

Changing Climate
Kuhn believes changing trends will continue to shape the architectural industry. They include a focus on building within walking distance of downtowns, which has occurred in communities and cities such as Amherst and Northampton. “It’s a more green way to develop,” he said.
It’s also one that promises ongoing work for architects who have weathered the storm of the past few years and are now reaping the rewards for their perseverance and resourcefulness.
For a sector that feels the swings in the economy perhaps more than any other, times are better, and the arrow is pointing up — and firms are intent on making the most of their opportunities.

Building on a Legacy

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Juster Pope Frazier Has Designs on Continued Growth

Kevin Chrobak

Kevin Chrobak says the name Juster Pope Frazier is a brand that resonates within many sectors of the economy.

Kevin Chrobak joined the then-Shelburne Falls-based architecture firm Juster Pope Frazier in 1983, after a short stint with rival Architects Inc. and just a few years after graduating from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
He would stay with the company, eventually buying out the men whose names appeared on the letterhead — Norton Juster, Earl Pope, and Jack Frazier — as each one eased into retirement, and in 2006, he assumed the title of principal architect.
While this is now truly Chrobak’s company, he says he’s never thought of changing its name or even adding his name to it. And he gets rather philosophical when explaining why.
“This is a brand — in some sense it’s like Xerox,” the Palmer native said with a laugh, while explaining how and especially why he believes the name Juster Pope Frazier, or JPF, as it’s also called, resonates within the industry and certain sectors of the economy, such as education. “I never felt the need to have my name on the door.”
But Chrobak is doing more than keeping the firm’s signage consistent. He’s also working hard to “extend the culture,” as he put it, of the first-generation partners, and incorporate their values into the company.
“Jack, Earl, and Norton established this business under the notion of doing very good work for very good clients — and also keeping their own lives in mind, their employees’ lives in mind, and keeping things reasonable,” he said. “They were kind, caring people, and very creative. I’ve tried to maintain that same point of view.”
That culture he described is now embedded in the company’s mission statement. Written on the backs of the company’s T-shirts — and on the home page of the firm’s website as well — it has three simple tenets: ‘live inspired, do good, and create beauty.’
“Norton’s the ‘live inspired’ aspect — he wrote The Phantom Tollbooth,” said Chroback, referring to Juster’s children’s adventure novel, published in 1961. “Jack was ‘do good’ — he was always very cognizant of giving back — and Earl was ‘create beauty.’ So that mission statement really guides the practice and how we behave with each other and with our clients, but it also reminds us of culture; maintaining that continuity is important.”
Still, while paying homage to the past, Chrobak and his staff of eight are obviously focused on the present and future. They’re consistently adding new projects to a diverse portfolio that includes everything from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst to the headquarters for the Channing L. Beete Corp. in Deerfield; from the fire station in Longmeadow to the new science building nearing completion on the campus of Elms College in Chicopee.
That brand Chrobak mentioned earlier has certainly helped the firm win a succession of projects at Nichols College in Dudley, St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury, and the Holyoke Health Center, among many other clients, most of which are repeat customers.
But a bigger factor, and one that helped the firm ride atop the destructive wave otherwise known as the Great Recession, has been its ability to work with clients to create a vision and then take it off the drawing board, he said.
This is a process, he said repeatedly, and one that can be challenging at times, but is generally rewarding for those on both sides of the table.
“It’s fascinating work, and clients really enjoy the process — they feel excited by it,” he explained, adding that he expresses that emotion himself. “It can be a very creative collaboration, and I think it’s something that’s very unique to their lives in many instances.”
For this issue and its focus on architecture, BusinessWest talked at length with Chrobak about his firm’s history, relationship-building efforts, and designs on continued growth.

Lines of Work
As he discussed the many nuances of his chosen field of architecture, Chrobak contrived a few analogies to describe the all-important relationship between the firm and the client — and the process for making a vision become reality.
“I like to think of architects as the director of a movie,” he explained, while relaying one of his often-repeated views on how a successful collaboration works. “The client is the producer, they create the story, but we’re the director that helps them realize their vision.
“Another analogy I use is that we’re translating French, or any other foreign language, into English,” he went on. “We’ll interpret something in their language and put it into our language. We’ll take their words and create a building with three-dimensional form.”
He even compared what goes on between a client and an architect to a long-term relationship, noting that, from the start of design talks to the end of construction, a firm can be on a specific job for three or four years or more.
Summing all this up, he said architecture is as much about design as it is about discussions between the firm and the client about what’s important to the latter and how they identify what Chrobak called the “icons of their site.”
“We view clients as being two things — a physical entity and a site,” he told BusinessWest. “In our thinking, the site is as much a client as the actual [business]client. You try to draw influence from what people are telling you, but you’re also drawing influence from where you’re building as well.”
As examples, he cited two local projects: the Eric Carle Museum, which was designed after a good deal of dialogue and collaboration between the firm and the picture-book artist whose name is on the building, and the nearby Wesley United Methodist Church in Hadley, which has a look borrowed from the tobacco barns that helped give that community its identity.
“It’s based on classical Christian basilica form,” Chrobak said of the church, “but it’s detailed in a manner that’s evocative of the classic Connecticut Valley tobacco barns. You might be tempted to say that a church and a tobacco barn don’t go together, but within that context, it makes all the sense in the world.”
By mastering the art of translating clients’ words and carrying out the role of director, Juster, Pope, Frazier, and, yes, Chrobak were able to build and refine that brand the principal architect described earlier.
Its standing in the market not only helped enable the firm to ride out a recession that nearly crippled many firms, but has positioned it to thrive at a time of stern competition for both public- and private-sector work.
Juster Pope Frazier once did quite a bit of both, said Chrobak, noting that, in the former category, the firm has designed a number of schools, fire stations, and other municipal facilities. But in recent years, as competition has intensified and margins have become razor-thin, the firm has focused its energies almost exclusively on the private sector.
And this strategic move was a big factor in JPF’s ability to essentially avoid the whitewater of the recession and stand today as a larger company, revenue-wise, than when the slide began.
“We didn’t really experience the downturn that everyone else did,” he explained. “We always had a client base that wanted to build because costs were down during those times; contractors were aggressively seeking work, and so their numbers came down dramatically.”
One of the clients looking to take advantage of those circumstances was Nichols College, he said, adding that the institution has become JPF’s biggest customer. The firm has undertaken a number of projects for the school over the past decade, and is essentially redesigning the core of the campus.
Initiatives have included two new suite-style dormitories, a new, 30,000-square-foot student center, an academic building, a dorm renovation, landscape improvements, and other work, with more likely in the future as the school continues an aggressive building program.
Nichols is a prime example of how the firm has been able to gain repeat business from clients, said Chrobak, adding that several institutions fall into this category, including St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury — JPF did work there 15 years ago and is currently designing an arts and academic building for that campus — and Elms College.
The new science building at the Elms will be dedicated this fall, he noted, adding that its design reflects and respects the architecture that defines the campus and especially its signature building, Berkmans Hall.
“That’s a classic, beautiful building built in the middle of the Great Depression,” he said. “We built adjacent to it, and because it’s such a distinctive and beautiful piece of architecture, we felt we needed to be somewhat reverent of that work and not impose our own look.”
This brings him back to the notion of relationships, collaboration, and those analogies he created to describe how a firm and its clients should work together to create something meaningful and that works at the site in question.
“I’m particularly in tune with this because I grew up locally,” he said, referring to the importance of designing a building that works for the client and the location. “It’s a privilege to create buildings that are going to be there for years in a place where you grew up; it’s not something I take lightly.”

Blueprint for Success
That sentiment also applies to the culture — and the brand — established by the first generation of ownership at JPF, said Chrobak.
The name over the company’s door — figuratively, because it’s not there literally — represents more than the three original partners, he told BusinessWest. It reflects a way to do business and live a life.
And so does the mission statement.
More than words on a T-shirt or copy on a website, that statement shows how determined this firm is to recognizing its legacy and, more importantly, building on it.

George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]

Run of the Mill

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Commercial Real Estate Sections
Former Tambrands Complex Becomes Home to an Eclectic Mix of Businesses

the Palmer Technology Center

On the banks of the Chicopee River, the Palmer Technology Center hasn’t exactly lived up to its name, but it has become home to a wide array of businesses — and jobs.

Having grown up in Palmer, Lisa Murray lived in the shadow of the massive Tambrands plant, built in 1872.
It was the epicenter of economic development since as far back as she can remember. It kept the downtown of Three Rivers, one of four villages in Palmer, buzzing, especially at lunchtime. But when the plant closed for good in 1997, a few years of vacancy and stillness prevailed on Main Street, and the mill became another symbol of what once was in this blue-collar region.
Today, however, the sprawling, 325,000-square-foot complex is a different kind of economic driver, and small-business owners like Murray have become the face of the landmark — even if their faces are not seen by many people.
Several years ago, Murray’s company, Transportation Advisors, which offers nationwide consulting for trucking-industry compliance through Federal Department of Transportation regulations — specifically drug and alcohol testing — needed accessible, affordable space in which to grow.
She found all that and more at what is now called the Palmer Technology Center, a name that is somewhat of a misnomer — there are not many technology-related businesses in the complex — but that speaks to how the reinvention of the old mill has been a slow, steady battle that hasn’t exactly gone according to script.
Indeed, the original plan for the mill, said John Morrison, a former employee at Tambrands who later started his own construction and landscaping business and then acquired the mill, was to attract the technology-related businesses that were emerging in huge numbers with the dot-com boom. But while these intentions were good, the timing and location were not.
The Technology Park at Springfield Technical Community College was opening at the same time (1999), and it and other properties in urban centers such as Boston and Worcester were proving to be much more attractive locations than the former manufacturing town off exit 8 of the Turnpike.
Palmer native Lisa Murray

Palmer native Lisa Murray has made her growing transportation business part of the revival of the PTC.

So Morrison and his team widened their sights, and, over the past 15 years, the mill has become home to everything from a library-relocation service to a business selling caskets and urns to a chocolatier. And, for the most part, there is a decidedly local flavor — figuratively, and in at least one, literally — to this mix of ventures.
“It’s a great old building, and I’m a Palmer girl, so I like to keep it local,” said Murray, who became one of the first tenants on the fifth floor of the main manufacturing building and still lives in town. “There’s not a lot of industry left in the area, so if you have a business and you can hire people and house your company locally, it’s good.”
At present, there are 22 businesses in the mill that together employ more than 200 people, said Morrison, noting that, while this number represents a fraction of the workforce at Tambrands at the height of that operation, it is significant to a community that needs jobs, as well as a spark to support other service- and hospitality-related businesses in the community.
And the mill has become just that, said Lenny Weake, who wears two hats, one as the executive director for the Quaboag Hills Chamber of Commerce and the other as the owner of Alternative Options, Affordable Caskets and Urns in the PTC. He said the center has become a hub of economic development that is successful, even if it isn’t visible to many in the community.
“Because there isn’t a lot of retail here, the average person doesn’t even know all that’s going on, because you can’t see the parking lot from the road,” he explained, adding that the vibrancy at the mill has translated into new opportunities for Palmer and especially its rebounding downtown.
With less than 8,000 square feet of office space and 30,000 square feet of light warehouse space left to be leased, Morrison said, the mill complex is close to 90% occupied. That means the PTC has become a success story on a number of levels, especially when it comes to the property being referred to in the present and future tenses, instead of the past.
“We’re finally getting people to stop calling it the ‘old Tambrands building,’” he said with a laugh, noting that while ‘Palmer Technology Center’ doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, it is gaining traction.
For this issue and its focus on commercial real estate, BusinessWest goes inside the PTC to chronicle the progress made there, and also to learn how this eclectic mix of business ventures has come together to create a unique success story.

Time and Space
Known originally as the Otis Mills, which processed cotton, the complex on the bank of the Chicopee River was home to Tambrands for 50 years, producing cotton products of a very different sort: tampons.
Procter & Gamble (P&G), Tambrand’s main competitor, purchased the corporation in 1992, ceasing the manufacturing operations, but converting the plant to its technical research and development center, which was eventually shut down in 1996.
“During Tambrand’s heyday, a woman could buy a box of tampons anywhere in the world, and it would say ‘manufactured in Three Rivers, Mass.,’” said Morrison. At that time, Tambrands had $662 million in global sales and just under 50% of the U.S. market.
Morrison’s knowledge of the building and the company’s history is understandable — they’ve both played a big part in his life, and his family’s. Not only did both of his parents work all their lives at Tambrands, but Morrison himself worked in the shipping department 25 years ago, before launching his landscaping company. He secured contracts with Tambrands for mowing, snow plowing, and scrap-metal collection, eventually evolving into a commercial and residential construction company.
It was that entrepreneurial spirit that caught the attention of P&G’s in-house broker; soon, Morrison was acting as the on-site broker for the corporation, showing potential buyers the mill complex.
And while he took a number of parties on tours, the building failed to generate much interest, despite roughly $20 million in renovations that were undertaken in the late ’80s. Frustrated by their inability to move the property at anything approaching their requested price of $3 million, P&G officials eventually reached out to Morrison and asked if he would be interested.
“I was just a landscaper, and I never say no to business, so I told him, ‘I’ll see what I can do,’” Morrison recalled, adding that he and some partners — Sid Covitch (now deceased), Len Jolles, and members of Covitch family — scraped together the capital to buy the complex for $685,000.
The original plan, as noted earlier, was to ride the tech wave sweeping through the nation and especially the Bay State. The thinking was that Palmer would be an ideal location because it was halfway between Springfield and Worcester. In reality, it turned out to be a little too far from both.
Meanwhile, the Technology Park at STCC had become a very visible, and formidable, competitor for the attention of tech companies.
“We had several come and look at the building because there was a lot of lab space, but they all had their eyes on either Worcester, Boston, or Springfield, and the STCC park was our main competition,” said Morrison. “We were trying to get the overflow from that, but people were very committed to Springfield at the time.”
So Morrison started keying in on more local businesses from a host of industry sectors. The common denominator was a need for accessible, affordable space, and, in many cases, large amounts of it. In meeting such needs, Morrison has been creative in putting specific facilities at the Tambrands plant to new uses.
For instance, the old kitchen of the Tambrands cafeteria is now occupied by Rogue Chocolatier, a small, award-winning cocoa-bean-to-bar manufacturer. Meanwhile, Alternative Options, Affordable Caskets and Urns is in the old computer-lab area, which has ramps that enable heavy caskets to be delivered and then shipped out.
Morrison’s two largest tenants are Mustang Motorcycle Products, which produces after-market motorcycle seats for all brands of motorcycles (it’s the second-largest venture of its kind in the world), and Wing Memorial Hospital’s Wing VNA and Hospice, specifically its billing department and file-storage facilities.
Filling the mill was a slow, sometimes frustrating process, said Morrison, who noted that confidence in his business plan eventually paid off.

John Morrison

When technology companies opted for Boston and Springfield, John Morrison said he targeted local businesses that would best fit the unique spaces in the old Tambrands mill.

“At one time, my partners didn’t have a lot of faith in it, but when I landed Mustang, things started to change,” he said, noting that the company recently moved its corporate headquarters from Connecticut to the PTC, signing a lease for the next seven years.
Other tenants include Tony Valley Entertainment, DJ services and guitar lessons; Halpern Titanium, precision manufacturers of titanium cutlery and other metal products; Palmer Monson Family Network, a nonprofit counseling network; the Learning Factory, a children’s day-care center; Stan-Allen Co., a steel-rule die maker for cutting plywood for board games; National Library Relocations, full-service movers; and Sunshine Village, adult day care for the mentally challenged.
That nonprofit’s clientele has recently doubled due to the closing of the nearby Monson State Hospital, and now occupies almost 13,000 square feet.
“You would think, with so many different types of businesses, it would be more difficult to manage the property,” said Morrison. “But it all works together.”

Milling About
One of the newest tenants at the PTC, Weake said he landed there for one reason.
“I looked all over the place, and in all honesty, it’s the price,” said Weake. “John had the best price for the space that I could find anywhere.”
Currently, Weake’s casket and urn business is on the second floor, and while he’d rather have the frontage of a first-floor Main Street location, his showroom and reasonable rent offers the low overhead he needs to grow a business that was spawned by what he perceived as a recognized need within the community.
“I had a death in the family, and I was stunned to see the prices for all the funeral costs,” said Weake.  “So I got into this business because I found that you don’t have to purchase directly from the funeral home; there is a Federal Trade Commission law that states that consumers have the right to shop for caskets and urns competitively.”
And while Weake is impressed with the success story unfolding within the old mill, he said the influence of those businesses extends beyond those walls and out onto Main Street and beyond.
“It’s very important from the chamber’s standpoint,” he said of the mill’s revival . “Palmer has a neat little downtown with New England charm. People are out and about, and if you think about it, in its heyday, 500 people were down here.”
Another unique business, EP Floors — which applies industrial seamless flooring for food-processing plants across the country, like National Fish & Seafood and King Cove Alaska — and its sister company, EPF Polymer Floors Electro Static Dissipating (ESD), which installs anti-static floor coatings for manufacturers of electronic items on concrete flooring, sought space in the mill for similar reasons.
“A dozen years ago, when it was pretty much empty, the office space drew us in because it was very affordable,” said Sean Mitchell, EP Floors and ESD operations manager. “And then there was the convenience of putting our shop here. We now have four offices and 5,000 square feet of shop space downstairs.”
Price and location were also paramount for Jim Hoag, president of Floormart Inc., a full-service flooring and installation business that was the first full-time business in the former mill. Now occupying 3,800 square feet, more than double the original footprint, Hoag cites the location, his family roots in the area, and the low overhead that the business and his headquarters afford him as reasons for his success.
“Word of mouth is a big thing in Palmer; people want to buy locally and not gravitate towards the big-box stores,” said Hoag. “I have a great local following and repeat customers.”
Morrison sticks to the ‘buy local’ theme by hiring as many of his tenants, like Hoag, as possible to provide their products and services to the PTC.
“To run the building, they use in-house people, and I do all the flooring here,” Hoag told BusinessWest. “He’s not going out and getting other contractors, and essentially that pays for my rent here; one hand washes the other.”

Room with a View
Like many of the repurposed mills in Western Mass., the PTC has not made people forget about the past. Indeed, this will still be the ‘old Tambrands plant’ to many, despite Morrison’s claims of putting that phrase to pasture.
And the businesses inside will likely never be able to match the employment activity at the former mill, which provided good jobs at good wages for generations of Palmer-area families, like Morrison’s.
But the technology center has brought a large dose of vibrancy back to an area that had lost thousands of manufacturing jobs and badly needed a spark. Murray summed up the development succinctly.
“Isn’t it wonderful that a building that was designed for one particular use back in the day to support the manufacturing of Tambrands has been recycled, and has all these great uses, and it’s really helping to revive the area?” she said. “Having grown up here and seeing all the empty buildings and manufacturing that has left, it’s nice that there’s something to replace it all with.”

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]

Court Dockets

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Court Dockets Departments

The following is a compilation of recent lawsuits involving area businesses and organizations. These are strictly allegations that have yet to be proven in a court of law. Readers are advised to contact the parties listed, or the court, for more information concerning the individual claims.

CHICOPEE DISTRICT COURT
Lancer Insurance Co. a/s/o GB Express Inc. v. Jasmine International Corp. and Robert E. Smith Jr.
Allegation: Trespass of property and negligence resulting in property damage to plaintiff’s trailer: $14,500
Filed: 7/17/13

HAMPDEN SUPERIOR COURT
Amy Hollowell v. C&S Wholesale Groceries and Hector Rivera
Allegation: Employment discrimination: $25,000
Filed: 6/21/13

KV Mechanical Construction and Restoration Co. v. Built Inc., Polymer Corp., and Manchem, LLC
Allegation: Non-payment of goods and services provided: $79,545
Filed: 7/10/13

Stephen A. Denoia v. Sears Holding Corp.
Allegation: Product liability. Stationary bike collapsed causing injury: $11,243.28
Filed: 7/17/13

HAMPSHIRE SUPERIOR COURT
Carrie Lagoy v. Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Allegation: Employment discrimination: $ 25,000+
Filed: 8/6/13

Derick Campbell v. Northampton Housing Authority
Allegation: Negligent maintenance of property causing slip and fall: $45,000
Filed: 8/9/13

NORTHAMPTON DISTRICT COURT
Integrys Energy Services Inc. v. William M. Collins, II d/b/a Spoleto Restaurant Group
Allegation: Breach of agreement, services rendered, unjust enrichment, and account annexed: $15,907.62
Filed: 8/13/13

PALMER DISTRICT COURT
Maple Crane Realty Inc. v Dorothy Fleishman d/b/a What’s Cooking Kids
Allegation: Unpaid commercial rent: $60,000
Filed: 7/11/13

SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT COURT
Ball Publishing Co. Inc. v. Joseph Hickson Jr. and Katherine Hickson d/b/a Private Garden Greenhouse
Allegation: Non-payment of advertising services rendered: $14,263.20
Filed: 7/17/13

Daniel Austin v. Pride Convenience Inc.
Allegation: Failure to pay wages: $25,000
Filed: 6/27/13

Reinhart Food Service v. George Eskander d/b/a/ Franklin Pizza
Allegation: Non-payment of goods sold and delivered: $6,860.01
Filed: 7/11/13

TBF Financial Inc. v. Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Allegation: Breach of lease agreement: $6,628.64
Filed: 6/27/13

Timothy Scott v. Vonage America Inc.
Allegation: Defendant breached contract without prior notice: $24,000
Filed: 7/27/13

Western Mass Electric Co. v. Safety Insurance Co. and Bryan Pasco
Allegation: Repair and replace electrical facilities: $7,376.78
Filed: 7/16/13

Bankruptcies

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Bankruptcies Departments

The following bankruptcy petitions were recently filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Readers should confirm all information with the court.

Abysalh, Jason G.
Abysalh, Carrie E.
94 Fairview Park Road
Sturbridge, MA 01566
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/28/13

Arce, Elizabeth T.
34 Maple St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Baribeau, Robert R.
25 Norma St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/26/13

Bourgeois, Florence Joan
281 Chauncey Walker St.
Lot 341
Belchertown, MA 01007
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Colon, Luis R.
25 Warner St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/28/13

Corkum, Robert L.
82 Pequoig Ave.
Athol, MA 01331
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/29/13

Corriveau, Mary A.
73 Hendrick St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Depson, Craig Francis
31 Albermarle Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/19/13

DiCarlo, Judith E.
40 Woods Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

DiPenta, Kimberly Ann
a/k/a Cormier, Kimberly Ann
PO Box 60083
Florence, MA 01062
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/28/13

Dobson, Robin A.
38 Hubbard Ave.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Garrant, Buffie A.
38 Converse St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/26/13

Goodwin A/K/A Rodriguez, Carmen Delia
80 Pheasant Hill Dr.
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/20/13

Greenleaf, Kathleen M.
9 Lakewood Dr.
Lake Onota Village
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Hamel, John J.
Hamel, Susan J.
201 West State St.
Granby, MA 01033
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Harris, Eileen M.
236 Sunrise Terrace
Springfield, MA 01119
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/30/13

Hartnett, Richard B.
199 Meadow St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Jacobs, Angela J.
a/k/a Hall, Angela J.
234 Main St., Apt A
Monson, MA 01057
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Josefiak, Deborah M.
110 Towne St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Joubert, Jessica L.
10 Harwich Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Keating, Wayne W.
Keating, Linda A.
a/k/a Barnard, Linda A.
184 North St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/28/13

Kibbie, Kimberley J.
a/k/a Pajak, Kimberley J.
a/k/a Wright, Kimberley J.
34 Hearthstone Terrace
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Lariviere, Russell J.
19 Parkin St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/22/13

Lonczak, Daniel W.
Lonczak, Lisa M.
73 Bonneville Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/29/13

Lukasik Construction
Lukasik, Timothy R.
Lukasik, Melissa J.
a/k/a Richard, Melissa J.
12 Spence St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/26/13

Lynde-Williamson, Rebecca M.
a/k/a Rushford, Rebecca M.
a/k/a Tactuk, Rebecca M.
66 Montague City Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Maciolek, Kevin R.
40 Conrad St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/26/13

Marcoux, Laura A.
162 Mallard Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Martineau, Jason G.
80 Irving St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Marvici, Anthony D.
89 Kensington St.
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/22/13

McCarthy, Steven R.
McCarthy, Debra E.
a/k/a Soulier, Debra E.
1241 East St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/30/13

Mead, Brian J.
106 Plunkett St.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/29/13

Mleczko, Edward Joseph
Parks-Mleczko, Nancy Ellen
20 Walnut St.
Turners Falls, MA 01376
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/21/13

Monczka, Robert W.
Monczka, Faye L.
1545 East Mountain Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/18/13

Noyes, Eric R.
Noyes, Denise M.
65 Broz Terrace
Feeding Hills, MA 01030
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Petroff, Suanne
73 Mill Village Road
South Deerfield, MA 01373
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/30/13

Pietras, Richard A.
53 Cabot St., Apt. 2B
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Polite, Maurice
1281 Plumtree Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

R & S Service Enterprises
Family Asset Holdings, Inc.
Three S Realty Trust, LLC
The Brass Tap
Laurin, Richard R.
24 Roosevelt Ave., 3rd Fl.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/30/13

Reeves, Kelly L.
44 Larkspur St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/23/13

Rule Transportation
Rule, Thomas M.
Rule, Joan D.
a/k/a McCormick, Joan D.
5 Everett St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/21/13

Sanchez, Isidoro R.
Sanchez, Francisca A.
53 White St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Chapter: 13
Filing Date: 08/24/13

Sheremet, Lyubov
28 Worcester St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/22/13

Simons, Scott M.
Simons, Mary L.
1016 Fred Snow Road
Becket, MA 01223
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Stark, Margaret J.
55 Kittredge Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/27/13

Steiner, Arnold F.
28 Chestnut St.
Turners Falls, MA 01376
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/28/13

Sulisz, Diane M.
73 Strong St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/28/13

Sullivan, Colleen A.
a/k/a Lippiello, Colleen A.
1471 Northampton St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/26/13

Szulc, Renata A.
20 Donlyn Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/28/13

Tatro, Josh R.
60 Willow Lane
Wales, MA 01081
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/22/13

Thibodeau, Edward
78 Oak St.
Indian Orchard, MA 01151
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/25/13

Walker, Charlene R.
2284 Main St.
Three Rivers, MA 01080
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/26/13

Warrington, Robert H.
Warrington, Margaret A.
44 Squier St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Chapter: 7
Filing Date: 08/20/13

Real Estate Transactions

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Departments Real Estate

The following real estate transactions (latest avail­able) were compiled by Banker & Tradesman and are published as they were received. Only transactions exceeding $115,000 are listed. Buyer and seller fields contain only the first name listed on the deed.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

ASHFIELD

646 Plainfield Road
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $183,000
Buyer: Robert Petrizzi
Seller: Richard B. Colby
Date: 08/22/13

228 Steady Lane
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Theodore Walls
Seller: Tammy L. Graves
Date: 08/23/13

1277 Williamsburg Road
Ashfield, MA 01330
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Deborah A. Reed
Seller: Anna J. MacNeish
Date: 08/23/13

BERNARDSTON

12 Bald Mountain Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $218,900
Buyer: Steven S. Hean
Seller: Laurie Fox
Date: 08/12/13

32 Depot St.
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $130,635
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank TR
Seller: Dwight S. Barrows
Date: 08/22/13

BUCKLAND

29 Avery Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $181,000
Buyer: Lisa L. Rubeck
Seller: Linda M. Vight
Date: 08/22/13

27 School St.
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $195,500
Buyer: Seth Wynne
Seller: Dale R. Macleod
Date: 08/21/13

CHARLEMONT

399 Legate Hill Road
Charlemont, MA 01339
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Carrie H. Ferretti
Seller: Lori A. Shulda-Merrigan
Date: 08/19/13

DEERFIELD

14 King Philip Ave.
Deerfield, MA 01373
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Tatiana A. Goclowski
Date: 08/23/13

ERVING

34 Prospect St.
Erving, MA 01344
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Scott D. Nicholas
Seller: Eric A. Johnson
Date: 08/23/13

GREENFIELD

740 Bernardston Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Mary P. Watson
Seller: Elliottr Smolensky
Date: 08/19/13

879 Bernardston Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Aaron E. Maxam
Seller: Elise A. Rice IRT
Date: 08/13/13

9 Grinnell St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Mary M. McManus
Seller: Mary M. McManus
Date: 08/14/13

72 Harrison Ave.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Charles Herbert
Seller: Bunker IRT
Date: 08/14/13

109 High St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $234,500
Buyer: Marjorie D. Sobil
Seller: Jay E. Karetnick
Date: 08/23/13

Lampblack Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $119,000
Buyer: James R. Schramel
Seller: Donna R. Proven
Date: 08/23/13

41 Old Albany Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Steven P. Koblinski
Seller: Judith C. Anderson
Date: 08/16/13

LEYDEN

780 Greenfield Road
Leyden, MA 01301
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Paul R. Fleischman RET
Seller: Mary A. Blackstone
Date: 08/19/13

MONTAGUE

7 Highland Circle
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $189,000
Buyer: Heidi M. Graves
Seller: Louise E. Traceski
Date: 08/12/13

75 Millers Falls Road
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Karen White
Seller: Michael A. Sevene
Date: 08/16/13

56 Turners Falls Road
Montague, MA 01301
Amount: $198,000
Buyer: Bryan T. Niedbala
Seller: Alfred M. Broga
Date: 08/16/13

NORTHFIELD

225 Main St.
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: HL Investments LLC
Seller: Northfield Mt. Hermon School
Date: 08/15/13

276 Old Wendell Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $228,000
Buyer: Julia A. Blyth
Seller: Pamela J. Veith
Date: 08/12/13

SHUTESBURY

366 Leverett Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Elizabeth A. Loving
Seller: Diane Jacoby
Date: 08/14/13

SUNDERLAND

124 North Silver Lane
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Sean G. McCallen
Seller: R. B. Trainor
Date: 08/19/13

232 Russell St.
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $285,500
Buyer: Krisha J. Gile
Seller: Larry D. Honeyman
Date: 08/16/13

WHATELY

122 Christian Lane
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Katelyn Hallowell
Seller: Karen R. Milch
Date: 08/16/13

251 Long Plain Road
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Heidi L. Canalizo
Seller: Neil D. Stairmand
Date: 08/16/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

49 Barney St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Christopher Malloy
Seller: Kevin Malloy
Date: 08/16/13

597 Barry St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Scott R. Pospolita
Date: 08/13/13

60 Beverly Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Richard J. Gamelli
Seller: Raymond E. Berthiaume
Date: 08/15/13

11 Bradford Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $199,900
Buyer: Darren Morace
Seller: Kevin J. Gaffney
Date: 08/16/13

80 Burlington Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $515,000
Buyer: Shaun M. Dwyer
Seller: Ivan Siryk
Date: 08/16/13

13 Campbell Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $167,500
Buyer: Patrick S. O’Hare
Seller: Robert Dyl
Date: 08/16/13

31 Cedar Knoll Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $369,000
Buyer: Michael J. Hutchinson
Seller: Alan L. Ferrigno
Date: 08/19/13

39 Chapin St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Buyer: Greg J. Hammerle
Seller: Christopher M. Izzo
Date: 08/23/13

47 Elm St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $167,000
Buyer: Geraldo V. Perez
Seller: Janice E. Reynolds
Date: 08/19/13

107 Fairview St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Andrea J. Fusick
Seller: Michael G. Fusick
Date: 08/15/13

76 Katherine Dr.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $305,000
Buyer: Marcos Ramirez
Seller: Kevin T. O’Keefe
Date: 08/19/13

132 Liberty St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Danny M. Marsili
Seller: Desiree Gribi
Date: 08/12/13

20 Marlene Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $281,000
Buyer: Pamela Camerlin
Seller: Thomas P. Reilly
Date: 08/14/13

214 Maynard St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $329,000
Buyer: Daniel J. Dangelo
Seller: Steven E. Rovithis
Date: 08/21/13

739 Mill St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Jackuline Robinson
Seller: Mary E. Rosati
Date: 08/22/13

30 Pembroke Lane
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Santino U. Valentino
Seller: Kenneth J. Askins
Date: 08/15/13

44 Riverview Ave.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $210,000
Buyer: Stanislav Gvinter
Seller: Langone Realty Corp.
Date: 08/12/13

BLANDFORD

4 Beulah Land Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: John C. Zalot
Seller: Stephen C. Poteat
Date: 08/16/13

166 Chester Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Marjorie C. McNeill
Seller: Melanie Curran
Date: 08/15/13

Crooks Road
Blandford, MA 01008
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Donna M. Gamble
Seller: Donna M. Gamble
Date: 08/20/13

CHESTER

9 Lynes Road
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $272,000
Buyer: Jerry L. Paquette
Seller: Kenneth R. Tessier
Date: 08/23/13

CHICOPEE

31 Alvord Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Edythe M. Ambroz
Seller: Lisa M. Labrie
Date: 08/15/13

44 Alvord Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank
Seller: David J. Fitz
Date: 08/19/13

54 Cambridge St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Ivan Litvac
Seller: Cabott Realty LLC
Date: 08/16/13

147 Grape St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: College Of Our Lady of the Elms
Seller: River Valley Counseling
Date: 08/20/13

1213 Grattan St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: Nathan H. Leitl
Seller: Richard Lavallee
Date: 08/20/13

37 Hajec Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $183,000
Buyer: Roman Catholic Bishop Of Springfield
Seller: Lucy I. Klaus
Date: 08/12/13

37 Harrington Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $139,900
Buyer: Brandon A. Staszko
Seller: Joyce A. Provoda
Date: 08/20/13

393 Irene St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $162,000
Buyer: Grazyna Pielecha
Seller: Larry E. Harris
Date: 08/20/13

402 Irene St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Laura E. Lanier
Seller: Irving I. Farber
Date: 08/23/13

193 Loomis Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Jennifer L. Fortuna
Seller: Thomas J. Maciolek
Date: 08/14/13

151 Mayflower Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Raymond P. Authier
Seller: Premier Home Builders Inc.
Date: 08/13/13

913 McKinstry Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $166,500
Buyer: Aaliyah Harris
Seller: Kenneth C. Boutin
Date: 08/21/13

186 Murphy Lane
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Timothy E. Coyle
Seller: Janice B. Bridgman
Date: 08/15/13

469 Oldfield Road
Amount: $122,500
Buyer: Mayte L. Davila
Seller: Robert M. Hastings
Date: 08/13/13

66 Paradise St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $148,000
Buyer: Diane M. Borek
Seller: Richard P. Goncalves
Date: 08/20/13

125 Ruskin St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $224,600
Buyer: Wheeler RET
Seller: First Central Baptist Church
Date: 08/15/13

29 Sherbrooke St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $117,000
Buyer: Luke A. Donahue
Seller: Virginia J. Stasiowski
Date: 08/15/13

1 Tanglewood St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $144,800
Buyer: Jeremy Lambert
Seller: Joseph A. Brosseau
Date: 08/23/13

201 Woodcrest Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Brian Fernandez
Seller: Robert Shattuck
Date: 08/23/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

12 Canterbury Circle
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $362,000
Buyer: Ryan P. Lynch
Seller: Ian Dalton
Date: 08/14/13

Capri Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $139,900
Buyer: Kent Pecoy & Sons Construction
Seller: Bella Vista Land Holdings
Date: 08/12/13

183 Mapleshade Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Steve Marangoudakis
Seller: Donald K. Fricchione
Date: 08/16/13

251 Mapleshade Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $217,000
Buyer: Christopher J. McMahon
Seller: William T. Carabine
Date: 08/22/13

51 Pilgrim Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Christopher M. Gates
Seller: Huan Vanhuynh
Date: 08/22/13

321 Porter Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $146,000
Buyer: Aimee C. Bihler
Seller: Bianca P. Norton
Date: 08/12/13

76 Redin Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Stephen M. Extine
Seller: Carol A. Stone
Date: 08/14/13

22 Rogers Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Marcy C. Racicot
Seller: Mary L. Haley
Date: 08/12/13

HOLLAND

3 Pine Tree Dr.
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $264,000
Buyer: Douglas C. Curving
Seller: Dianne B. Snieder
Date: 08/13/13

HOLYOKE

29 Magnolia Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $159,000
Buyer: Kenneth A. Voorhees
Seller: Agnes M. Connell
Date: 08/21/13

19 Raymond Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $127,900
Buyer: Michael R. Patenaude
Seller: Florence Savings Bank
Date: 08/23/13

35 Richard Eger Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Eric S. Wood
Seller: Coarnelius R. Dreger
Date: 08/16/13

25 Shawmut Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $500,000
Buyer: Donald Pelletier
Seller: Desrosiers, Leona G., (Estate)
Date: 08/22/13

30 Sunset Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Gerald Connell
Seller: Aldona Cebulak
Date: 08/21/13

LONGMEADOW

939 Converse St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Jeffrey Kuselias
Seller: Louis J. Concotilli
Date: 08/21/13

99 Deepwoods Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Rick G. Cianfaglione
Seller: E. P. Wagner
Date: 08/22/13

65 Forest Glen Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $396,250
Buyer: Hans J. Vonnahme
Seller: Todd E. Butler
Date: 08/16/13

144 Franklin Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $258,000
Buyer: Timber Development LLC
Seller: S. W. Goddard
Date: 08/22/13

120 Greenacre Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Lindsay B. Burns-Maloni
Seller: Rich G. Cianfaglione
Date: 08/22/13

1656 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Anthony E. English
Seller: Mary A. Downey
Date: 08/15/13

17 Merriweather Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Joseph L. Fontaine
Seller: Neil J. Maloney
Date: 08/23/13

157 Pleasantview Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $367,500
Buyer: Patricia A. Clark
Seller: Glenn S. Anderson
Date: 08/12/13

58 Shady Side Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $399,000
Buyer: Kim D. Tanzer
Seller: Michael A. Zwirko
Date: 08/21/13

LUDLOW

776 Alden St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $237,000
Buyer: William B. Crawford
Seller: Shawn D. Asselin
Date: 08/14/13

37 Bristol St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $131,500
Buyer: Stephen Sarrasin
Seller: Acasio Almeida
Date: 08/15/13

597 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $357,000
Buyer: Joao A. Dias
Seller: John E. Ryan
Date: 08/14/13

25 Dale St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $232,000
Buyer: Brian H. Martins
Seller: Domingos Joao
Date: 08/12/13

364 East St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Zapgo LLC
Seller: Robin Wdowiak
Date: 08/14/13

50 King St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $195,900
Buyer: Ian Premo
Seller: Antonio Carvalho
Date: 08/13/13

721 Moore St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Stephen W. Ricardi
Seller: Joseph P. Cardaropoli
Date: 08/23/13

92 Parkview St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Edward H. Fillion
Seller: Judith G. Landers
Date: 08/23/13

10 Paul Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Diane H. Zina
Seller: Shirley H. Casimiro
Date: 08/12/13

MONSON

4 Country Club Dr.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $173,250
Buyer: Jeremy Bailey
Seller: Eric M. True
Date: 08/16/13

23 Green St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $134,300
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Michael P. Sousa
Date: 08/16/13

62 Palmer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Thomas C. Sandomierski
Seller: Sergey Savonin
Date: 08/12/13

MONTGOMERY

3 Birch Bluff Road
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Robert A. Doyle
Seller: Joseph L. Fontaine
Date: 08/23/13

N/A
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $700,000
Buyer: Scarfo Construction Inc.
Seller: Flynn, Eileen T., (Estate)
Date: 08/16/13

Southampton Road
Montgomery, MA 01085
Amount: $140,000
Seller: Scarfo Construction Inc.
Date: 08/16/13

PALMER

4253 Church St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $217,500
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: David Chamberlain
Date: 08/14/13

2015 East St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $170,584
Buyer: Wells Fargo Financial
Seller: Patricia A. Narreau
Date: 08/19/13

4415 High St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Margaret A. Mileskie
Seller: Eric H. Niergarth
Date: 08/14/13

132 Shearer St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $198,777
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Gary E. Hilton
Date: 08/22/13

RUSSELL

570 Pine Hill Road
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Shane C. Cekovsky
Seller: Anthony J. Palazzo
Date: 08/22/13

SPRINGFIELD

44 Ashland Ave. #9
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Ya J. Chen
Seller: Kevin J. Czaplicki
Date: 08/14/13

142 Avery St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $144,282
Buyer: Pati RE Holdings LLC
Seller: Christopher Tiso
Date: 08/14/13

162 Bowles Park
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $132,000
Buyer: Jennifer A. Bertolasio
Seller: Courtines, Velma L., (Estate)
Date: 08/22/13

63 Bridle Path Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Jess P. Wainscott
Seller: David S. Burnett
Date: 08/19/13

158 Bridle Path Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Brian D. Coelho
Seller: Sarah E. Bryson
Date: 08/15/13

102 Chalmers St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Neslie R. Pryce
Seller: Norman C. Michaels
Date: 08/20/13

274 Christopher Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $186,900
Buyer: Aminah M. Sallu-Lukulay
Seller: 50 By 50 REO 3 LLC
Date: 08/23/13

650 Cooley St.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $117,500
Buyer: Sarai Andrades
Seller: Richard S. Harty
Date: 08/16/13

41 Copeland St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $164,936
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: William J. Sullivan
Date: 08/12/13

14 Fairfield St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $169,900
Buyer: Kaelan A. Rhiannon
Seller: Thomas J. Rowland
Date: 08/12/13

38 Granger St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $234,000
Buyer: Kiyota Woods
Seller: Luke E. Hunter
Date: 08/19/13

116 Hampden St.
Springfield, MA 01151
Amount: $159,397
Buyer: MHFA
Seller: Luis A. Feliciano
Date: 08/21/13

96 Kensington Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $900,000
Buyer: Hung T. Tu
Seller: Long K. Le
Date: 08/23/13

1091 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01103
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: 1095 Main Street IRT
Seller: NEC Family Enterprises 2
Date: 08/20/13

N/A
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $172,300
Buyer: Emily K. Herring
Seller: Daniel A. Britt
Date: 08/16/13

5 Nokomis St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Craig A. Belanger
Seller: Earl H. Thibodeau
Date: 08/16/13

55 Oak St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Jose L. Pedro
Seller: Maria R. Fortunato
Date: 08/23/13

30 Prentice St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $136,900
Buyer: Brenda S. Davis
Seller: Carlos L. Melendez
Date: 08/16/13

33 Rathbun St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Luis Cotto
Seller: Deborah L. Scharmann
Date: 08/23/13

23 Slater Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Travis R. Vaz
Seller: James M. Lage
Date: 08/14/13

16 Sunapee St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $169,000
Buyer: Lissette Martinez
Seller: William Raleigh
Date: 08/20/13

253 Sunrise Terrace
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Raymond Masso
Seller: Rosa Jusino
Date: 08/20/13

64 Treetop Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $195,125
Buyer: HSBC Mortgage Svcs. Inc.
Seller: Anthony L. Perry
Date: 08/21/13

36 Village Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Dawn M. Chaffee
Seller: Andrew C. Bordoni
Date: 08/20/13

19 Warner St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $218,000
Buyer: Luxiana Property LLC
Seller: Marie C. Rigaud
Date: 08/22/13

30 Wells St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Christopher Edge
Seller: Courtside Of Springfield
Date: 08/15/13

1425 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Alfred P. Cola
Seller: Robert L. Craig
Date: 08/16/13

201 Windemere St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Crystal L. Roy
Seller: Teresa A. Klein
Date: 08/23/13

107 Winton St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $142,500
Buyer: Cynthia R. Carbonneau
Seller: Robert J. Bousquet
Date: 08/23/13

178 Wollaston St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $136,000
Buyer: JV Properties Inc.
Seller: Martin A. Derrick
Date: 08/23/13

5 Woodland Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $237,000
Buyer: Nathaniel J. Gilmore
Seller: My Ron A. Hatchett
Date: 08/16/13

SOUTHWICK

7 Deer Run
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $443,946
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Richard E. Tersavich
Date: 08/16/13

16 Foster Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Jaydub LLC
Seller: Russell L. Ramah
Date: 08/23/13

313 Granville Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Joseph M. Lemoine
Seller: Louise R. Lamountain
Date: 08/15/13

5 Revere Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Christina L. Abbondanza
Seller: Ronald A. Teal
Date: 08/15/13

18 Sterrett Dr.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $365,900
Buyer: Christopher R. Foreman
Seller: Ronald A. Nadeau
Date: 08/14/13

WALES

11 Main St.
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $139,000
Buyer: Robert B. MacDonald
Seller: Paul Vessio
Date: 08/13/13

WESTFIELD

45 Apple Blossom Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $221,000
Buyer: Brian R. Broderick
Seller: Sheila A. Lambert
Date: 08/16/13

41 Bailey Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Melissa A. Glynn
Seller: Scarfo Construction Inc.
Date: 08/21/13

90 City View Blvd
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Brian C. Miller
Seller: Paul P. Nowak
Date: 08/23/13

19 Eastview Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $126,500
Buyer: SSMG LLC
Seller: Thomas R. Webster
Date: 08/23/13

6 Fowler St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Rafael R. Maldonado
Seller: Ashlea R. Miller
Date: 08/23/13

78 Granville Road #8
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $326,298
Buyer: Karen M. Regan
Seller: Granville Road LLC
Date: 08/23/13

80 Highland Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Michael P. Sadowski
Seller: Elizabeth A. Butcher
Date: 08/23/13

33 King St.
Amount: $137,500
Buyer: Robert Daigneault
Seller: Steven A. Andrews
Date: 08/20/13

125 Montgomery St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $201,637
Buyer: US Bank
Seller: Patricia M. Tower
Date: 08/16/13

160 North Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $273,500
Buyer: Joel S. Mollison
Seller: Deboroah S. Harris
Date: 08/20/13

215 Notre Dame St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $154,635
Buyer: Andrew H. Joseph
Seller: Michael P. Sadowski
Date: 08/23/13

7 Phyllis Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $268,000
Buyer: Julieann L. Schortmann
Seller: Kenneth L. Ridley
Date: 08/15/13

139 Springdale Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $135,600
Buyer: Robert A. Gauthier
Seller: George J. Fitch
Date: 08/23/13

33 Squawfield Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $252,500
Buyer: Gregory A. Denys
Seller: Marcel H. Frere
Date: 08/13/13

74 Westwood Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $227,000
Buyer: James Dinopoulos
Seller: Paul Smith
Date: 08/15/13

83 Wyben Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Arlene E. Bednaz
Seller: Richard P. O’Connor
Date: 08/19/13

WILBRAHAM

6 Cedar Ridge Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $419,134
Buyer: Richard A. Charpentier
Seller: Mile Oak Land Holdings LLC
Date: 08/12/13

5 Laurel Lane
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: David S. Burnett
Seller: Steven M. Sady
Date: 08/19/13

25 Rochford Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Gregory Bernat
Seller: William R. Cusson
Date: 08/23/13

26 W. Colonial Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $398,000
Buyer: Bryand E. Brenes
Seller: Charles K. Abro
Date: 08/20/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

37 Avondale Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Lal Khadka
Seller: Keith D. Bowes
Date: 08/14/13

29 Bowers St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Joseph Machnecz
Seller: Rosann Desrosiers

146 City View Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Olga I. Lopez
Seller: Dickson, Dorothy M., (Estate)
Date: 08/19/13

184 Laurel Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Jacqueline L. Bell
Seller: Diane E. Gallup
Date: 08/16/13

Mulcahy Dr. #22
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: David J. Piacentini
Seller: Francis Wheeler Construction
Date: 08/16/13

90 Nelson Circle
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $174,900
Buyer: Nicholas A. Bull
Seller: Daniel J. Garrity
Date: 08/12/13

492 Prospect Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $3,250,000
Buyer: MWF Realty LLC
Seller: Fountain Prospect Realty
Date: 08/14/13

166 Robinson Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $169,500
Buyer: Patricia A. Schufreider
Seller: William J. Powers
Date: 08/12/13

68 Smyrna St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Sarabeth G. Caplette
Seller: Matthew J. Scytkowski
Date: 08/14/13

105 Van Horn St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $204,900
Buyer: Matthew J. Scytkowski
Seller: Ryan P. Lynch
Date: 08/14/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

104 Dana St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $470,000
Buyer: Rosemary A. Cowell
Seller: Rachel R. Hexter
Date: 08/22/13

623 East Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Michaeel E. Williamson
Seller: Judith R. Ashkin
Date: 08/19/13

75 Larkspur Dr.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $545,000
Buyer: Marc S. Osten
Seller: David G. Doctor
Date: 08/15/13

Leverett Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $116,000
Buyer: Joslad & Associates PC
Seller: Bernard F. Mikelis LT
Date: 08/14/1

27 South Prospect St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $362,545
Buyer: Benjamin Beiley
Seller: Donald S. Pitkin RET
Date: 08/20/13

BELCHERTOWN

17 2 Ponds Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Himanshu Patel
Seller: Whitney Mollica
Date: 08/22/13

80 Granby Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $338,000
Buyer: Jonathan W. Ritter
Seller: Carriage Town Homes LLC
Date: 08/20/13

20 Hemlock Hollow
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $292,573
Buyer: Freedom Mortgage Corp.
Seller: Kevin M. Hughes
Date: 08/16/13

141 Metacomet St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $130,000
Buyer: Daniel A. Bergeron
Seller: William M. Booth
Date: 08/15/13

425 Michael Sears Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Ronald T. Galen
Seller: 425 Sears TR
Date: 08/19/13

469 Michael Sears Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Wendy A. Bowers
Seller: Joseph M. Lemoine
Date: 08/15/13

196 Old Enfield Road
Amount: $468,000
Buyer: David R. O’Brien
Seller: Gordon Bjorkman
Date: 08/23/13

203 Orchard St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Jeffrey N. Cosgrove
Seller: Eileen A. Casella
Date: 08/23/13

97 South Washington St.
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $268,500
Buyer: Katherine Bousquet
Seller: Michael J. Czepiel
Date: 08/16/13

46 Wilson Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Peter J. Czapienski
Seller: David P. Jones
Date: 08/16/13

CHESTERFIELD

228 Sugar Hill Road
Chesterfield, MA 01012
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Thomas S. Vincent
Seller: Diane M. Pfisterer
Date: 08/16/13

EASTHAMPTON

82 Ferry St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Megan R. Scott
Seller: Jeremy A. Hebert
Date: 08/16/13

238 Hendrick St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Paul J. Wysocki
Seller: Jean K. Canon
Date: 08/16/13

1 Lovefield St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Triple C LLC
Seller: Liberty Field LLC
Date: 08/14/13

4 Valley Lane
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $283,000
Buyer: John J. Mingrone
Seller: Michael J. Schrauben
Date: 08/13/13

13 West St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $287,500
Buyer: Shirlee B. Williams
Seller: Suzanne O’Donnell
Date: 08/22/13

GRANBY

240 Carver St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Stephanie N. Granger
Seller: Stephen J. Guenette
Date: 08/15/13

499 East State St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Denis Laflamme
Seller: Jacqueline Bell
Date: 08/16/13

Maximilian Dr.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $145,000
Buyer: CIL Realty of Mass. Inc.
Seller: East State Street NT
Date: 08/16/13

204 School St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Joshua N. Broussard
Seller: Jeanne Yocum
Date: 08/20/13

HADLEY

7 Indian Pipe Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $699,000
Buyer: Ajla Aksamija
Seller: Bercume Construction LLC
Date: 08/23/13

26 Mount Warner Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $385,000
Buyer: Jeffrey T. Reynolds
Seller: Gideon Y. Freudmann
Date: 08/22/13

36 North Maple St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $267,500
Buyer: Austen Iglehart
Seller: Kazimiera Szlaban
Date: 08/23/13

108 Rocky Hill Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Bruce D. Montague
Seller: Elaine Aldrich
Date: 08/14/13

23 Rocky Hill Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $297,500
Buyer: Dennis C. Morin
Seller: Kathleen Miller
Date: 08/15/13

8 Wampanoag Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Quentin S. Amrani
Seller: Christopher C. Slack
Date: 08/16/13

HATFIELD

8 Woodridge Circle
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $525,000
Buyer: Honora G. Gordon
Seller: John H. Zieminski
Date: 08/19/13

HUNTINGTON

70 Goss Hill Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Garrett T. Barsalou
Seller: Kelso, Edward A., (Estate)
Date: 08/20/13

138 Pond Brook Road
Huntington, MA 01050
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: William C. Madden
Seller: Nettler Green LT
Date: 08/15/13

NORTHAMPTON

621 Burts Pit Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $390,000
Buyer: Christopher J. Hurn
Seller: Harry L. Hoar
Date: 08/12/13

86 Cahillane Terrace
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Brian Campedelli
Seller: Matthew L. Owen
Date: 08/13/13

262 Crescent St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $535,000
Buyer: Patrice M. Sabach
Seller: Christopher Laflamme
Date: 08/15/13

22 Dickinson St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $356,000
Buyer: Krista L. Carothers
Seller: Nathan S. Korza
Date: 08/23/13

100 Front St.
Northampton, MA 01053
Amount: $274,000
Buyer: Laurie B. Foley
Seller: Thomas F. Quinn
Date: 08/19/13

35 Hatfield St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Mohamed R. Abdulazeez
Seller: Henry J. Kowalski
Date: 08/19/13

33 Harlow Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Andrew B. Dahlberg
Seller: Janet R. Dahlberg
Date: 08/16/13

96 Island Road
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $186,000
Buyer: Gail F. Lysiak
Seller: R. Jalbert&M Sullivan RET
Date: 08/12/13

100 Maple Ridge Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $575,500
Buyer: Matthew E. Page
Seller: Emil J. Kobylarz

107 Massasoit St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $353,000
Buyer: Tor A. Krogius
Seller: Lairie B. Foley
Date: 08/19/13

111 Nonotuck St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $387,500
Buyer: Bruce Frankel
Seller: Sara R. Page
Date: 08/16/13

140 Pine St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $321,500
Buyer: 40 Main Street LLC
Seller: City Of Northampton
Date: 08/22/13

110 Prospect Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $440,000
Buyer: Nathan S. Korza
Seller: Sarah C. Barrett
Date: 08/19/13

405 Ryan Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: C. P. Andrikidis
Seller: John J. Glenowicz
Date: 08/16/13

114 South Main St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $690,000
Buyer: Charlene E. Choi
Seller: Nancy W. Denig

168 South Main St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $450,000
Buyer: Scott E. Evans
Seller: Melitta Carnevale
Date: 08/13/13

3 Tyler Court
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $900,000
Buyer: Cheryl A. Jacques
Seller: MLG RT
Date: 08/15/13

93 Washington Ave.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $538,000
Buyer: William J. Corwin
Seller: Amy B. Morse
Date: 08/15/13

PELHAM

47 Arnold Road
Pelham, MA 01002
Amount: $375,000
Buyer: Mark Lange
Seller: Joan S. Leavitt
Date: 08/21/13

PLAINFIELD

64 Old South St.
Plainfield, MA 01070
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Michael R. Packard
Seller: Joseph Freeland
Date: 08/15/13

SOUTH HADLEY

47 Charon Terrace
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Jonathan S. Szymonik
Seller: Ian D. Premo
Date: 08/12/13

104 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $233,000
Buyer: Farrah Matta
Seller: Norma I. Resto
Date: 08/23/13

16 Linda St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Bryan J. Lynes
Seller: Eleanor Dauphinais IRT
Date: 08/20/13

520 Newton St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $315,000
Buyer: Bernard D. Gelinas
Seller: Richard Theriault
Date: 08/16/13

11 Silverwood Terrace
South Hadley, MA 01075
Buyer: Nancy A. Dinn
Seller: E. Muriel Allen TR
Date: 08/16/13

70 Woodbridge St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Matthew S. Bertuzzi
Seller: Andrew Clendinneng
Date: 08/23/13

193 Woodbridge St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $258,500
Buyer: Carole A. Camp
Seller: Jihn W. Malone
Date: 08/15/13

SOUTHAMPTON

8 Bluemer Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $219,648
Buyer: FNMA
Seller: Wayne F. Demers
Date: 08/23/13

5 Buchanan Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $270,000
Buyer: Vincent S. Turgeon
Seller: John Zalot
Date: 08/16/13

42 Line St.
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Angelica F. Trenholm
Seller: Carl E. Osepowicz
Date: 08/22/13

53 Moose Brook Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $219,500
Buyer: Donald N. Bernier
Seller: David L. Neal
Date: 08/15/13

27 Mountain View Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $168,500
Buyer: Evan R. Huff
Seller: James J. Jackowski
Date: 08/23/13

12 Rattle Hill Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $122,000
Buyer: John Dafonte
Seller: Michael L. McKnight
Date: 08/19/13

WARE

270 Old Gilbertville Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Gregory W. Eaton
Seller: Melissa C. Martin
Date: 08/12/13

111 Walker Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $318,500
Buyer: Robert E. Provencal
Seller: Provencal Demer NT
Date: 08/16/13

WESTHAMPTON

148 Northwest Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $296,000
Buyer: David L. Popham
Seller: Joseph Hvishaway
Date: 08/19/13

WILLIAMSBURG

20 Petticoat Hill Road
Williamsburg, MA 01096
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: John W. Selfridhe
Seller: Briam W. Breed
Date: 08/20/13

Doing Business As Certificates

By
DBA Certificates Departments

The following Business Certificates and Trade Names were issued or renewed during the month of September 2013.

AGAWAM

DJJ Investments
51 Senator Ave.
Doug Janick

Mia’s
7 South End Bridge Circle
Shaun Sutherland

Regency Service Company
680 Springfield St.
Richard Walker

Wagsta
53 Tom St.
Ryan Stack

CHICOPEE

Cedar Falls Construction
209 Prospect St.
Richard Rivet

Shop Smart Convenience
659 Grattan St.
Umar Bhatti

The Portrait Mill
21 Lauzier Terrace
Jeffrey Byrnes

EASTHAMPTON

Easthampton Music Conservatory
12 Greenwood Court
Bryan Daley

Healthy Networks
150 Pleasant St.
Peter Dopp

Lisa’s Hair Design
27 Little Mohawk Road
Lisa Connor

The Greener Home Cleaner
47 Campbell Dr.
Leah Gendron

Top Down Hosting
30 Ward Ave.
Joseph Astuccio

HOLYOKE

Almonte Market II
129 Sargeant St.
Jose T. Almonte

Corner’s Delight Grocery & Deli
95 High St.
Luis A. Alvarado

Grandma’s Attic Thrift Store
1976 Northampton St.
Sharyn A. Kazunas

Intrinsic Design
24 Franks Dr.
Jonathan Falcetti

JDE Corporation
36 Ely St.
Jose T. Almonte

Mica Beauty, LLC
50 Holyoke St.
Thary Phok

Wuglyees
32 Maplecrest Circle
Deborah D. Malloy

NORTHAMPTON

D.L. Hair
4 Old South St.
Diane Lanoue

Mineral Hills Winery
592 Sylvester Road
Lawrence Godard Jr.

Pelorian Digital
1 Front St.
Richard Rasa

Pinch
179 Main St.
Jena Sujat

Queen Bee Cupcakery
150 Main St.
Frederick Villar

Sky Temple
19 Hawley St.
Curtis Hayden

Sticks and Bricks
9 Mark St.
Elizabeth Karney

PALMER

Beaudoin Stonescapes
1036 Park St.
Jesse Beaudoin

Boone Equipment Sales & Retail
1158 Park St.
William Boone

Gold Dust
1256 South Main St.
April Goldrick

LP Transportation
6 Caroline Circle
Henry Lomba

Millennium Group Inc.
2022 Bridge St.
Richard Sweeting

Northern Construction Services
1290 Park St.
Timothy LaMotte

SOUTHWICK

Caissy’s Cleaning Service
134 Feeding Hills Road
Caissy Price

J. Rad Excavating
261 South Loomis Road
Joshua Radwilowicz

NWS Fast Pitch
57 South View Dr.
Marisa Markiewicz

SPRINGFIELD

1st Stop Convenience Store
445 Main St.
Ricardo Falcon

2N1 Grocery & Restaurant
74 Eastern Ave.
Pablo Evangelista

522 Page Boulevard, LLC
522 Page Blvd.
William T. Tetreault

906 Homwin Chinese Restaurant
906 Boston Road
Fan C. Li

Alexus Taxi
34 Florida St.
Adil Ibrahim

Algonquian Construction
14 Hawthorne St.
Johnny Walker

Angels at Heart Daycare
28 Blake Hill St.
Angela S. Chest

Baystate Children’s Hospital
759 Chestnut St.
Mark R. Tolosky

Centro Commercial Lama
2924 Main St.
Pedro Gonzalez

Clean Rex
145 Ambrose St.
Glenn Mills

Clemente’s Sports Bar & Grille
90 Worthington St.
Paul V. Ramesh

Cranio and Massage Center
8 Woodstock St.
Gina Welch

Creating Healthy Academic
69 Edendale St.
Chad Haywood

DAC Handyman Services
39 Granville St.
Devon Smith

Direct to Garment Prints
76 Palo Alto Road
Brandon J. Behnk

Ebony Hill Marketing Firm
111 Florida St.
Nicole A. Hill

El Paisano Restaurant
152 Rifle St.
Ramon Romero

Elite Reporting Service
2 Mattoon St.
Debra A. Vance

Ensena Corporation
1242 Main St.
Hector Fearfield

Exercise in Disguise
140 Maynard St.
Jade L. Rivera

Felix’s Auto Repair
914 Sumner Ave.
Jill A. Crosby

Food Management Search
235 State St.
Joseph Valentine

Fresh Market and Denim
427 State St.
Marcus Navarro

Game World
2475 Main St.
Hoa K. Tran

Geo 195 Pine, LLC
195 Pine St.
Majid N. Din

Hard Body Auto Sales
160 Magazine St.
Kristine Benitez

Higuey Mini Market
298 Hancock St.
Luis J. Pena

Hubble Bubble Hookah
51 Hastings St.
Joshua J. Mastey

K & J Services
45 King St.
Kenneth Wayne

Wilma Pruitt
49 Margerie St.
Wilma Pruitt

World Concrete Contract
1655 Main St.
Daniel Rodriguez

York Street
1 Federal Court
Michael F. Mastriani

WEST SPRINGFIELD

21st Century Apps of New England
51 Van Deene Ave.
Personal Services of New England

Basic Packaging Supply
136 Wayside Ave.
James H. Pollard

Edible Arrangements
1702 Riverdale St.
Louise Beauchemin

Gooseberry Farms
201 Gooseberry Road
Leonard Lapinsky

Hooters
1290 Riverdale St.
West Springfield

Kia M. Brokos
425 Union St.
Kia M. Brokos

Noho Pride Inc.
42 Murray Place
Cindy White

Pioneer Valley Chimney
362 Amostown Road
Thomas J. Cowell

RG Management
425 Union St.
Robert H. Guarente

Rising Sun Mobility
102 New Bridge St.
Peter V. Lapik

Steven’s Jewelers Inc.
2068 Riverdale St.
Joseph E. Stevens

The Loft Salon Studio
2301 Westfield St.
Ann M. Walts

People on the Move

By
Departments People on the Move

Jeffrey Fialky, shareholder of the Springfield-based law firm of Bacon Wilson, P.C., was recently named Chairman of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Fialky is a member of the firm’s corporate, commercial, banking, and municipal departments, where he specializes in sophisticated business, financing, and commercial real-estate transactions, representing the interests of business owners and lending institutions, as well as municipalities and landowners. Fialky is the former President of the Young Professional Society of Greater Springfield, and is also currently Chair of the Springfield Museums membership and development committee, and serves as a director on the boards of the United Way of Pioneer Valley, the Scibelli Enterprise Center at STCC, Alden Credit Union, and the Jewish Federation of Western Mass. Fialky earned his BA from the University of New Hampshire and his JD from Western New England University School of Law.
•••••
Bulkley Richardson recently announced that several of the Springfield-based firm’s lawyers were selected by their peers for legal-industry accolades. The following lawyers were named to The Best Lawyers in America 2014:
• Francis Dibble Jr. was named the Best Lawyers 2014 Springfield Litigation – Labor and Employment Lawyer of the Year. Dibble was also recognized in the areas of bet-the-company, commercial, antitrust, and securities litigation;
• David Parke was named the Best Lawyers 2014 Springfield Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year; and
• John Pucci was named the Best Lawyers 2014 Springfield Criminal Defense: Non-white-collar Lawyer of the Year. Pucci was also recognized in the area of criminal defense (white collar);
• In addition, the following Bulkley Richardson lawyers were also selected for the 2014 edition of Best Lawyers in specific practice fields:
• Peter Barry, construction law;
• Michael Burke, medical-malpractice law (defendants) and personal-injury litigation (defendants);
• Mark Cress, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights, insolvency and reorganization law, and corporate law;
• Daniel Finnegan, administrative/regulatory law and litigation (construction);
• Robert Gelinas, personal-injury litigation (defendants);
• William Hart, trusts and estate;
• Kevin Maynard, commercial litigation and litigation (banking and finance, construction);
• Melinda Phelps, medical-malpractice law (defendants) and personal-injury litigation (defendants);
• Donn Randall, commercial litigation;
• Ellen Randle, family law; and
• Ronald Weiss, corporate law, mergers-and-acquisitions law, and tax law.
•••••
United Bank recently announced the promotions of seven staff members at the bank’s corporate offices in West Springfield:
• Nira Flatley was promoted to Assistant Vice President, Collections Manager. A graduate of Bay Path College with nearly 25 years of banking experience, she is responsible for managing residential delinquencies within the bank’s loan portfolio;
• Kristyn Samere, who joined the bank in 2010, is now Assistant Vice President of Training and Development. She is an active member of the Society for Human Resources Management and the American Society for Training and Development. A business administration graduate of Roberts Wesleyan College, she is currently pursuing an MBA at Northeastern University;
• Amy Ganci was appointed Assistant Vice President, Commercial Lending Administration. With more than 21 years of experience in the commercial-lending field, Ganci joined the bank in 2011. She holds a degree in business/financial management from Westfield State University and an associate’s degree from Greenfield Community College;
• Jennifer DeBarge was promoted to Marketing Officer. A graduate of Westfield State University, she joined the bank in 1998 as a teller and transferred to the marketing department in 2003 as marketing assistant;
• Ana Ricardo, who joined the bank in 2008 and has more than 15 years of residential lending experience, was promoted to Underwriting Officer;
• Ann Vallance was promoted to Business Banking Officer. She began her banking career in 2004 and joined the bank in 2012 in the areas of commercial lending and credit analysis; and
• Patricia Pasterczyk was promoted to Business Banking Officer. She joined the credit department in 2011 with more than 30 years of financial-services experience. She graduated magna cum laude from Elms College with a bachelor’s degree in business management. She also attended the School for Financial Studies at Babson College and holds a certificate in advanced paralegal studies from Elms College.
•••••
Shatz, Schwartz, and Fentin, P.C. announced that eight of the Springfield-based firm’s attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2014:
Stephen Shatz was named the Best Lawyers 2014 Springfield Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year. Shatz, first listed in the publication in 1993, was selected for his work in the specialty areas of banking and finance law and real-estate law. A shareholder since 1969, he concentrates his practice in the areas of real-estate development, real-estate finance, and commercial leasing;
• Steven Schwartz was selected for the areas of corporate law, business organizations and closely held companies, and family-business law. He concentrates his practice in the areas of family-business planning, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, and estate planning;
• Gary Fentin was selected for his work in the areas of commercial transactions and banking and finance law. His practice areas include commercial and real-estate finance and development, industrial revenue bonds, affordable housing, estate planning, business law, and business foreclosures and workouts. Fentin manages the firm’s tax-exempt bond practice and is the only counsel west of Worcester approved as bond counsel to the Mass. Development Finance Agency;
• Michele Feinstein was selected in the areas of elder law and trusts and estates. She concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning and administration, elder law, probate litigation, health law, and corporate and business planning;
• Carol Klyman, first listed in the publication in 2007, was selected for her work in the area of elder law. Her practice areas include elder law, estate planning and administration, special-needs trust planning, estate settlement, guardianships, and probate litigation;
• Timothy Mulhern, first listed in the publication in 2008, was selected for his work in the areas of tax law and corporate law. He concentrates his practice in family-business planning, taxation, corporate law, and estate planning;
• Ann (Ami) Weber, first listed in the publication in 2007, was selected for her work in the area of elder law. She practices in the areas of estate-tax planning, estate administration, probate, and elder law; and
• Steven Weiss, first listed in the publication in 2008, was selected for his work in the areas of bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights as well as insolvency and reorganization law. His practice areas include commercial and consumer bankruptcy, reorganization, and litigation. Weiss manages the firm’s bankruptcy, reorganization, and workout practice, and has been a member of the private panel of Chapter 7 trustees for the District of Massachusetts since 1987, and also serves as a Chapter 11 trustee.

A Big Move to the ‘Small House’

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The JGS team
Sections The Business of Aging
JGS Strategic Initiative Continues a Tradition of Culture Change

Martin Baicker and Susan Halpern

Martin Baicker and Susan Halpern both used the word ‘transformational’ to describe Jewish Geriatric Services’ plans to adopt the so-called small-house model.

Martin Baicker calls it “the continuation of a journey that started years ago.”
That’s how he chose to describe a strategic initiative at Longmeadow-based Jewish Geriatric Services (JGS), which he serves as president and CEO, to adopt what’s known as the “small-house model of care” into some of its facilities.
The ‘small house,’ or ‘Green House’ model, as it’s also called, involves a more personal, home-like setting for elder care, one that represents the next iteration of ongoing culture change within the industry — and at JGS, said Baicker.
“This furthers a long tradition of caring and embracing culture change — our board is forward-thinking and has always wanted to be on the cusp of what is the latest thinking in terms of care for seniors,” he explained, adding that the ‘journey’ he mentioned started in the ’90s, with movement from the traditional nursing-home setting and operating philosophy to something known as the “neighborhood model.”
This was an effort to “de-institutionalize” nursing homes and make them more home-like, he noted, adding that it involved everything from incorporating carpeting and softer colors on the walls to adding amenities such as common areas, fish tanks, and solariums, to creating a sense of neighborhood by assigning facilities names, such as the ‘New York Unit,’ given to the short-term-care unit.
The small-house model goes further, and, as the name suggests, involves placing 10 to 20 private rooms in a setting that approximates a small house, he continued, noting that the private rooms would be supported by a central living room, or hearth, as well as a dining room and full kitchen.
“People will have their privacy in the rooms, but they can go out to the central living area, or hearth, to engage other residents, visit with family, to have activities — it’s like a home, it’s like a living room,” Baicker told BusinessWest, adding that the concept will first be adopted for a new short-term-care rehabilitation center, and will then be phased into the long-term-care facility, the Julian J. Leavitt Family Jewish Nursing Home.
But the small-house model involves much more than facilities design, said Baicker, adding that it also requires a change in philosophy and operational design that begins with self-directed work teams committed to providing services when and how residents want them.
“The small-house model provides flexibility and choice for each resident,” he explained, “with a personalized team of multi-skilled staff, along with an environment that encourages residents to be an active participant in their care and treatment.”
Susan Halpern, vice president of Philanthropy for JGS, agreed.
The JGS team

The JGS team, left to right: Marty Baicker (president and CEO), Susan Kline (chairman of the board), Susan Halpern (VP of philanthropy), Randy Locklin (JGS project manager), Martin Siefering (principal at Perkins Eastman and project director), Eric Dalen (architectural team leader at Perkins Eastman), Katherine Cienciala (project manager at Perkins Eastman), Paul Steidl (Perkins Eastman), Bob Petroff (executive vice president and administrator of the Julian J. Leavitt Family Jewish Nursing Home), and Karen Johnson (VP of human resources). Missing from photo: Ed Roman (JGS CEO).

“We feel that this is the most transformational thing that we’ve done here since we moved to our Longmeadow campus in the early ’70s,” she said, adding that the scope and potential impact of the initiative should resonate when JGS launches a capital campaign to fund the initiative in the near future.
For this issue, BusinessWest takes an in-depth look at the small-house model of care, and at JGS’s work to stay at what Baicker called the “cutting edge” of advances in the delivery of care in the nursing-home setting.

At Home with the Idea
Baicker said the decision to move ahead aggressively with adoption of the small-house model was one of many suggestions forwarded by a committee assembled by JGS called the Future Vision Task Force.
The group, comprised of board members, key constituents, and JGS staff, spent more than a year researching innovative ways of providing elder care and making recommendations to the full board, he went on.
These suggestions included movement into palliative care, expanding and enhancing technology, general campus-wide enhancements and improvements, and expanding the adult-day-health program with a dementia specialty.
Topping the list, however, was incorporation of the small-house model into both the nursing home and a new short-term-care rehabilitation center.
The small-house model differs from a traditional nursing home — designed much like a hospital with long corridors, rooms on both sides, and a central nursing station — in terms of facility size, interior design, organizational structure, staffing patterns, and methods of delivering skilled professional services, said Baicker, adding that units are designed from the ground up to look and feel like a real home.
“Our goal is to transform how care is delivered at JGS,” he said, adding that, while the model has been embraced in many areas of the country, it is still relatively new to Western Mass., with Mary’s Meadow in Holyoke, a facility operated by the Sisters of Providence Health System, being the only small-house facility currently operating in Greater Springfield.
Beyond the dramatic departure from traditional nursing-home design, the small-house model represents significant change in overall operating philosophy, said Baicker, adding that this evolution, if you will, is “about enhancing dignity and providing JGS residents with cutting-edge rehabilitation and long-term care.”
He summed up this evolving approach with the phrase “resident-directed model of care.”
“The small-house model provides flexibility and choice for each resident with a personalized team of multi-skilled staff, along with an environment that encourages residents to be an active participant in their care and treatments,” he said.
Elaborating, he said that, historically, and in the traditional nursing-home model, residents work around the schedule of the staff. In the small-house model, the staff works around the schedule of the residents.
“To me, it’s about dignity and choice,” he went on. “People can choose to wake up when they want to wake up, not when people tell them to wake up. They can eat when they want, bathe when they want … it’s a philosophical change that’s a work in progress; we want this to be like their home.”
There will be an organizational, or structural, change to accompany the philosophical change, he told BusinessWest, adding that at the heart of this development will be self-directed work teams that represent a dramatic departure from the traditional staffing hierarchy at nursing homes.
“What’s going to change in the small-house model is you’re going to flatten that hierarchy,” he went on, adding that certified nursing assistants (CNAs) will be providing most of the care. “We’ll create a cross-trained, multi-skilled position; these individuals will do traditional things that CNAs have done in the past — the personal care they’ve provided — but in our model, they’ll also do other things. They’ll provide some activities, they’ll do laundry, and in some models, they’ll cook.
“They will spend a lot more time with the residents because they’re in the house doing all these other tasks,” he continued. “The CNAs will spend the bulk of their time with the residents, which is important, because if their condition changes, they’ll notice it first.”
The small house will be a self-contained unit in every sense of that phrase, he said, adding that the self-directed teams will make their own schedules, and there will be much more engagement between the residents and the staff.
“This will be a great place for staff to work,” Baicker noted. “They’ll work in the same place every day and with the same residents every day. And when that happens, it’s almost like they become family members.”
To assist with implementation of these sweeping changes, JGS has assembled a team of experts to work with the staff. The company has selected the architectural firm Perkins Eastman, an international leader in the design of elder-care living facilities, and designer of several small-house facilities. Additionally, JGS has engaged Judith Rabig, one of the foremost experts on culture change and small-house design, to assist with the planning process. Rabig is a nurse and gerontologist who has created plans for more than 20 small houses across the country. She is also the director of the National Alliance of Small Houses.

Room for Improvement
Baicker and Kimball Halpern told BusinessWest that there are no timetables in place yet for the capital campaign or the start of construction, although the project has reached the design phase. And the overall price tag for the initiative has yet to be determined.
What is known is that GJS is committed to continuing a tradition of being at the forefront of change and innovation in elder care, and movement to the small-house format is merely the latest example of this philosophy.
As Baicker said, it’s simply the continuation of a journey.

George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]

Appetite for Growth

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Environment and Engineering Sections
The Dennis Group Becomes a Leader in Food Engineering

DennisGroupSabraPlant

The 120,000-square-foot Sabra hummus plant near Richmond, Va., which the Dennis Group built in 2009, will double in size by 2014.

A large poster hanging in the stairway of the historic Fuller Block building in downtown Springfield effectively tells the story of the company now occupying most of that landmark.
Well, sort of.
The black-and-white image, affectionately titled ‘The Geeks’ by staff at the Dennis Group, presents what looks like three college students eating hamburgers, with some accompanying verbiage: “we were fascinated by food even before we become engineers.”
It all makes sense — if one is familiar with the company and the niche it has successfully cultivated over the past quarter-century. This would the field known simply as ‘food engineering,’ although that phrase is somewhat of a misnomer and certainly needs some clarification, said Dan McCreary, one of the firm’s four partners.
The company doesn’t actually engineer food, he noted, adding that it designs and builds specialized plants that process many of the convenience-based foods consumers buy every day, from prepackaged lettuce to energy drinks to frozen, ready-to-heat sandwiches.
“We’re actually architects and process engineers for the food industry,” McCreary went on, acknowledging that the latter term itself requires explanation.
And he provided one, noting that there is an elaborate process involved with building such facilities — from selection of a location (more on that later) to operations to energy efficiency, a subject of increasing importance as fuel costs rise and the desire to be ‘green’ increases.
By excelling in the art and science of helping clients navigate this process, the Dennis Group has witnessed explosive growth since it was launched by founder Tom Dennis in his attic. It now boasts nearly 200 employees in its Springfield headquarters (now spaced over four of the renovated Fuller Block’s five floors) and another 100 in satellite offices strategically located in Salt Lake City, San Diego, Toronto, and Atlanta.
Meanwhile, the client list has grown to include many of the household names from the food industry — Nestle, Dole, Tropicana, PepsiCo, and numerous others — and the Dennis Group now books projects totaling more than $500 million annually.
Some of this success can be traced to timing — specifically, an explosion in the popularity of convenience-based foods and the almost (that’s almost) recession-proof nature of the food industry, said McCreary, noting that “people have to eat.”
But beyond these realities, the firm’s remarkable growth can be traced to its relationship-building abilities — it has drawn repeat business from many clients as they have grown and expanded into new business opportunities — as well as an operating philosophy based on calculated risk taking and what often would be considered unorthodox thinking.
As one example, McCreary, who spoke for the company while Dennis was attending to business at one of the satellite offices, cited some aggressive action during the recent economic downturn.
At the height of the Great Recession, two of the firm’s $100 million projects were essentially halted, he noted, but Dennis’ response was not to trim staff and hunker down, but rather hire some of the the talent that was becoming available.
“He said, ‘we’ve often struggled to find the right people when the economy was good, and now, with the engineering, architectural, and construction industry being hit so hard, there’s talent out there,’” McCreary recalled. “So we went on a hiring spree.”
The bold move paid off for the company, he went on, because it was well-positioned to seize the opportunities that came about as economic conditions improved — and it did, adding a number of projects to the portfolio.
For this issue and its focus on environment and engineering, BusinessWest takes an indepth look at the Dennis Group, its appetite for growth, and its status as a true leader in the large and still-expanding realm of food engineering.

Salad Days
They’re called Uncrustables.
That’s the name Smucker’s has put on a simple yet fascinating product — a frozen, ready-to-eat peanut butter and jelly sandwich, one that comes, as that name suggests, without the crust.
“It’s every kid’s dream — they stamp out the center of the sandwich so there’s no crust,” said Tony Graves, another senior partner at the Dennis Group, noting that Smucker’s reached out to the Dennis Group to design and build what eventually became the largest automated bakery in the world, in Scottsville, Ky., to produce Uncrustables.
Smucker’s addition to the supermarket’s frozen-foods aisle is just one example of the direction the nation — and the food industry that serves it — is taking, said Graves and McCreary, noting that there is ever-greater demand for convenience products, including some that probably couldn’t have been imagined a decade or two ago.
Like packaged salad.
“It’s the simplest ideas that are amazing,” said McCreary, who was vice president of Finance for Dole when it ventured into the packaged-salad business more than 20 years ago. “I mean, how hard is it to make a salad? Who is going to buy this? But, as it turned out, everyone did.”
And this phenomenon is one of the many reasons why the Dennis Group has enjoyed steady growth for the past 26 years, said McCreary, who hired the firm (then with 20 employees) to expand Dole’s facilities in California to accommodate the new product lines, and then was recruited by Tom Dennis to join him in his growing venture.
McCreary said he was attracted to the Springfield-based firm by everything from its already-established reputation for excellence to its decidedly different operating philosophy, or culture.
McCreary described the style as “informal,” and as an example, he referred to his business card, which lists only his name and contact information.
“We don’t have titles … we have very little in terms of a management structure,” he explained. “We have 300 people, but we don’t have an employee handbook — not because we forgot or it’s too hard, but because we want people to use their own judgment.
“Our philosophy is that we hire bright, ambitious people,” he went on, “and if we trust an employee to handle millions of our clients’ dollars, then we trust them to know what a sick day is.”
But what ultimately attracted McCreary to the Dennis Group was its vast growth potential, which he recognized while the firm handled Dole’s expansion efforts.
Taking such a facility from the drawing board to reality is a lengthy, complicated process (there’s that word again), he went on, adding that the Dennis Group ultimately owes its sweeping success to its ability to effectively guide clients through the many steps involved.

The Complete Package
The firm’s full menu of services includes everything from design to construction management; from identifying and handling environmental concerns to waste disposal and energy consumption, he told BusinessWest, adding that the process usually begins with the all-important questions of what to build and, perhaps more important, where.
Indeed, geography is a key consideration in the food-production industry, McCreary and Graves explained, adding that location has an impact on everything from energy costs to distribution.
“With these large companies, if you’re trying to distribute a product nationwide, you want to be more toward the center of the country, rather than up in the corner in some cases,” McCreary said, pointing in the air to the Western Mass. region.
“The process begins with questions like, ‘where do your raw materials come from?’ ‘where do you distribute the product?’ and ‘where is the most beneficial location to meet those needs?’” he continued, adding that, once a preferred geographic region is identified, the Dennis Group works with the client to select a specific location.
And there are a number of factors that go into picking a site — from cost and availability of power (food-processing plants consume huge amounts of energy) to the ability of a given community to handle the large waste streams such plants generate.
“A lot of what we solve with a simple checklist of site needs is an educated guess for what the building size will be and how it can be laid out on the site,” said Graves. “It’s what we try to accomplish before the client makes a mistake.”
Ten sites that might be favorable for new building, he added, will quickly turn into only two sites, due to the complexity of the food-production processes and distribution needs.
With assistance on the economic-development side for regional tax-incentive financing, grants for employee training, etc., the Dennis Group is able to identify and design a purpose-built structure around a customized site, and provide construction management for production of a variety of foods and beverages.
In food engineering, as in most business sectors, success breeds more success, said Graves, who has been with the company for 21 years. He said the food industry, while large in terms of dollars, is much smaller in terms of players and the individuals managing them. In this environment, a good track record can help foster relationships that bring new additions to the portfolio.
“You run into the same people year in and year out,” he explained. “They move around within the industry and bring us along with them.”
One example of such relationship-building is the Sabra hummus company. The Dennis Group started working with it in 2009, when it was a $40 million enterprise that wanted to go national. Currently, the firm is leading a project that will double the size of a 120,000-square-foot plant for what is now a $500 million company.
While repeat business is a leading contributor to the firm’s continued growth, the need within the food industry to reduce energy consumption and retrofit aging plants so they are more efficient has also become a source of new business.
“In food, it’s ‘heat things up, cool things down,’ and you’re always cleaning things in these plants,” said Graves. “So that’s where all their energy usage is, and sometimes energy costs more than the raw materials.”
One of the firm’s recent projects, the Frito-Lay Sun Chips plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, is a net-zero facility, meaning that it has annual zero net energy consumption and zero carbon emissions; its energy is supplied by solar-powered facilities.

Food for Thought
Looking ahead, McCreary and Graves said the Dennis Group is well-positioned for continued growth in a number of respects, from those aforementioned relationships within the food industry to simple geography, especially in the form of its satellite offices in Salt Lake City and Atlanta, areas clients are increasingly targeting for new building and expansion.
Meanwhile, the nation’s consumers have a seemingly unlimited appetite for convenience food, and an imaginative and resourceful food industry continues to find new and different ways to meet that demand.
These trends and developments bode well for a company that has always had designs on being a business leader — in every sense of that phrase.
Those who don’t know the story of the Dennis Group probably won’t understand the relevance of that poster in the Fuller Block stairway.

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]

Building Permits

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Building Permits Departments

The following building permits were issued during the month of September 2013.

AGAWAM

Aesha Management, LLC
632-634 Springfield St.
$50,000 — New storefront and renovations

CHICOPEE

Century 21 A-1 Nolan
73 Waite Ave.
$6,000 — Strip and re-roof

City of Chicopee
31 Springfield St.
$191,000 — Remove asbestos contaminated material

Center Group, LLC
13 Center St.
$75,000 — Enlarge bathroom and elevator shaft

Francais Properties, LLC
60 Haynes Circle
$240,000 — Remodel existing warehouse with new houses

Friendly’s Ice Cream
529 Memorial Dr.
$6,000 — New siding

Montogomery Development Group
21 Baystate Road
$525,000 — Construction of a dental office

OSG of Chicopee
1505 Memorial Dr.
$200,000 — Remodel interior of Chicopee Urgent Care Center

Riverbend Medical Group
444 Montgomery St.
$18,000 — Modifications to existing ductwork

Slats Realty Trust
14 Sheridan St.
$9,000 — Strip and re-roof

EASTHAMPTON

Autumn Properties, LLC
247-251 Northampton St.
$9,500 — Install partitions to create office space

CIL Realty of MA Inc.
296 Loudville Road
$465,000 — Construct a 3,200-square-foot group home

Kevin Perrier
123-133 Union St.
$17,000 — Interior renovation for office space

Trinity Lutheran Church
2 Clark St.
$3,000 — Replacement windows

SOUTH HADLEY

Center for Redevelopment
29 College St.
$5,000 — Install siding

NORTHAMPTON

Caroline Gottlieb
49 Market St.
$5,000 — Exterior repairs

Dori Mead
186 Main St.
$56,000 — Interior renovation for Dobra Tea

Eugene Mongeon
26 Trumbull Road
$4,000 — Roof repairs

Richard Finck
63 Main St.
$8,000 — New roof

Evert Fowle
16 Center St.
$3,000 — Replace ceiling

Main Street Properties, LLC
92 Main St.
$51,000 — Install 44 rooftop solar panels

Maplewood Shops Inc.
2 Conz St.
$10,000 — Install replacement windows

Northampton Treatment Facility
170 Glendale Road
$4,000 — Replace antenna panel

Peter Whalen
7 Old South St.
$24,000 — Install 40 replacement windows

Smith College
College Lane
$30,500 — New suspended ceiling in Ainsworth Gym

Smith College
Neilson Dr.
$25,000 — Laundry room renovation in Washburn House

Smith College
West St.
$12,500 — Dormer repairs at Lilly Hall

William Mock
106 Damon Road
$3,806 — Repair building from auto accident

PALMER

Ronald Foskit
18 Barker St.
$5,000 — Strip existing shingles and re-roof two buildings

SOUTHWICK

Roof Maintenance and Systems
542 College Highway
$89,000 — Re-roof

SPRINGFIELD

1350 Main St., LLC
1350 Main St.
$109,000 — Renovation of office space

3640 Main St., LLC
3640 Main St.
$174,000 — Build out of 6,000 square feet of tenant space

Bethany Road Properties, LLC
121 Memorial Dr.
$181,000 — Build out for offices

Boriquen Apt. Limited
2748 Main St.
$28,000 — Install frame out to provide for office use

Springfield College
263 Alden St.
$10,000 — Create student post office

WGBY
44 Hampden St.
$59,000 — New roof

WESTFIELD

Rosow Westfield, LLC
66 South Broad St.
$9,500 — Interior repairs

WEST SPRINGFIELD

Center for Human Development
332 Birnie Ave.
$6,000 — Office renovation

Mansfield Paper
380 Union St.
$5,000 — Replaced damaged wall

Pearson Limited Partnership
61 Century Way
$5,000 — Office renovation

Troy Industries
151 Capital Dr.
$210,000 — Strip and re-roof

Real Estate Transactions

By
Departments Real Estate

The following real estate transactions (latest avail­able) were compiled by Banker & Tradesman and are published as they were received. Only transactions exceeding $115,000 are listed. Buyer and seller fields contain only the first name listed on the deed.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

BERNARDSTON

147 Bald Mountain Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $154,000
Buyer: Thomas V. Newton
Seller: Denison, Frances E., (Estate)
Date: 08/09/13

14 Turners Falls Road
Bernardston, MA 01337
Amount: $148,500
Buyer: Danny L. Hescock
Seller: Riley, Donnabelle N., (Estate)
Date: 07/30/13

BUCKLAND

59 Charlemont Road
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Tomothy J. Budrewicz
Seller: James A. Budrewicz
Date: 07/31/13

115 Elm St.
Buckland, MA 01338
Amount: $318,600
Buyer: Katherine M. Haydock
Seller: Gail R. Hall
Date: 08/09/13

CONWAY

116 Elm St.
Conway, MA 01341
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Palmer L. Yurica
Seller: Ovitt, Ralph B., (Estate)
Date: 07/30/13

DEERFIELD

26 Pleasant Ave.
Deerfield, MA 01342
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Jonathan Talbot
Seller: Bruce K. Culver
Date: 07/29/13

GILL

479 Main Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: Lea Banks
Seller: Mary E. Norrman
Date: 07/30/13

69 South Cross Road
Gill, MA 01354
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Margaret K. Vidrine
Seller: Gary M. Weber
Date: 07/31/13

GREENFIELD

104 Davis St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Ion Virlizanu
Seller: Petru Balan
Date: 08/05/13

71 Laurel St.
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: SD&CM Pitcher RET
Seller: Michelle A. Roberge
Date: 08/05/13

403 Log Plain Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Kenneth F. Pleasant
Seller: Loretta A. Pinson
Date: 07/31/13

98 South Shelburne Road
Greenfield, MA 01301
Amount: $167,000
Buyer: Brian D. Godin
Seller: Toddy A. Bolvin
Date: 07/31/13

LEVERETT

410 Long Plain Road
Leverett, MA 01054
Amount: $274,900
Buyer: Jason C. Viadero
Seller: Marvin T. Ellin
Date: 08/09/13

MONTAGUE

4 Grand Ave.
Montague, MA 01349
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: James G. Martineau
Seller: FNMA
Date: 07/30/13

6 Willmark Ave.
Montague, MA 01376
Amount: $199,000
Buyer: Caroline L. McDade
Seller: Daniel E. Arsenault
Date: 07/31/13

NEW SALEM

264 Wendell Road
New Salem, MA 01355
Amount: $320,000
Buyer: Elizabeth R. Young
Seller: Rodney W. Bixby
Date: 07/31/13

NORTHFIELD

295 Birnam Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $197,000
Buyer: Stacy L. Walsh
Seller: John F. Foster
Date: 08/09/13

564 Mount Hermon Station Road
Northfield, MA 01360
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Erica M. Smith
Seller: Cindy S. Dikeman
Date: 07/31/13

SHUTESBURY

147 Baker Road
Shutesbury, MA 01072
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Alan Condron
Seller: Catherine D. Youngen
Date: 07/31/13

SUNDERLAND

22 South Plain Road
Sunderland, MA 01375
Amount: $242,000
Buyer: Susan J. Shepard
Seller: Leslie Ann Stiles TR
Date: 07/31/13

WARWICK

718 Orange Road
Warwick, MA 01378
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: David B. Kelly
Seller: Peter D. Hubbard
Date: 08/07/13

WHATELY

129 Christian Lane
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $635,000
Buyer: Richard Pedersen
Seller: Howard P. Beaudry
Date: 08/01/13

North St. (WS)
Whately, MA 01093
Amount: $541,000
Buyer: Owl Hill NT
Seller: Ralph K. Farrick Funding TR
Date: 08/06/13

HAMPDEN COUNTY

AGAWAM

34 Charles St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $164,000
Buyer: Michael F. Roy
Seller: Monty LLC
Date: 08/08/13

19 High Meadow Road
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $277,000
Buyer: Darryl R. Page
Seller: Mark R. Langevin
Date: 07/31/13

7 Marla Place
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $256,000
Buyer: Kristin M. Strycharz
Seller: Dave Sanders
Date: 08/05/13

131 Moore St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $153,675
Buyer: Vanderbilt Mtg. & Financial Inc.
Seller: Michael Price
Date: 08/08/13

596 North St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Richard N. Majkowski
Seller: Mary A. Couture
Date: 07/31/13

34 Park St.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Frank J. Bond
Seller: Michael A. Lacaresse
Date: 07/29/13

60 Red Fox Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $225,900
Buyer: Michael A. Lacaresse
Seller: Donald C. Bjorklund
Date: 07/29/13

26 Royal St.
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $179,000
Buyer: Mark Kenney
Seller: Raeann Sarsfield
Date: 08/02/13

915 Shoemaker Lane
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $260,500
Buyer: Jeannette Oyola
Seller: Shaun M. Dwyer
Date: 07/31/13

80 Simpson Circle
Agawam, MA 01001
Amount: $188,250
Buyer: Brendan Culver
Seller: Gene M. Karam
Date: 08/02/13

118 Thalia Dr.
Agawam, MA 01030
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Kenneth Backlund
Seller: Joseph P. Cipcic
Date: 08/06/13

BRIMFIELD

10 Palmer Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Amount: $400,000
Buyer: Aura Ent. Inc.
Seller: Laura P. May
Date: 08/02/13

Sturbridge Road
Brimfield, MA 01010
Buyer: Andrew B. Worden
Seller: Springfield Boys Club Inc.
Date: 07/30/13

CHESTER

92 Lyon Hill Road
Chester, MA 01011
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: John Ringeling
Seller: Janice F. Voorhis
Date: 08/01/13

CHICOPEE

73 Boulay Circle
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Collin C. Edwards
Seller: Yuk Shan
Date: 07/31/13

160 Bridle Path Road
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Julie A. Kukahiko
Seller: Jon R. Abbott
Date: 07/31/13

544 Broadway St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Noreen B. Candon
Seller: Kathleen D. Laclair
Date: 08/01/13

85 Call St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Juan A. Deleon
Seller: James E. Seymour
Date: 08/07/13

451 East Main St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $147,500
Buyer: Christina Loy
Seller: Dennis Cook
Date: 08/01/13

49 Fairfield Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $182,000
Buyer: Tony Tereso
Seller: Fred M. Sliwa
Date: 07/29/13

111 Garland St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Donald J. Laplante
Seller: Hazel J. Levan
Date: 07/29/13

25 Henry Harris St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $131,000
Buyer: Kelly J. Colkos
Seller: Jennifer M. Gallant
Date: 08/07/13

28 Kane Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $141,500
Buyer: Edward H. Greeno
Seller: Deborah S. Stec
Date: 07/31/13

Lombard Road
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $2,137,500
Buyer: Blue Bird MHC LLC
Seller: GL Realty LLC
Date: 07/30/13

501 Memorial Dr.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $1,250,000
Buyer: Chick Fil A Inc.
Seller: Columbus Ave. Realty LLC
Date: 08/06/13

32 Morris St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $155,000
Seller: MHFA
Date: 08/09/13

518 Pendleton Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Waycon Inc.
Seller: Edward Kleciak
Date: 08/02/13

552 Pendleton Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $184,000
Buyer: Daniel R. Lowe
Seller: Kyle Thibeault
Date: 08/02/13

23 Pleasant St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $147,900
Buyer: Manuel A. Salgado
Seller: John J. Moccio
Date: 08/02/13

42 Poplar St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: Eugene V. Gruszka
Seller: Michelle L. Gamelli
Date: 07/30/13

40 Randall St.
Chicopee, MA 01013
Amount: $134,000
Buyer: Robert A. Tardiff
Seller: Sophie M. Malikowski
Date: 08/08/13

16 South Winthrop St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Craig A. Viens
Seller: Debra A. Sherrer
Date: 07/29/13

47 Tanglewood St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Anthony Matos
Seller: John Chmura
Date: 07/31/13

169 Waite Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Bethanie L. Sawyer
Seller: Derek P. Swistak
Date: 08/02/13

129 Woodlawn St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Laura J. Hurler
Seller: Sandra M. Turban
Date: 07/31/13

108 Woodstock St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $126,000
Buyer: Alexandra Gonzalez
Seller: Jennifer L. Weir
Date: 07/31/13

116 Woodstock St.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $138,000
Buyer: Monika M. Konopko
Seller: Wojcik, Walter, (Estate)
Date: 07/31/13

7 Zoar Ave.
Chicopee, MA 01020
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: James Sheftall
Seller: Richard S. Harty
Date: 08/01/13

EAST LONGMEADOW

137 Allen St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $341,500
Buyer: Patrick R. Tudryn
Seller: Angelo Pananas
Date: 08/09/13

Auburn St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $272,000
Buyer: John J. Kelly
Seller: Michael F. Torcia
Date: 08/09/13

101 Bayne St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $230,000
Buyer: Leo A. Riendeau
Seller: Cynthia K. Therien
Date: 07/31/13

11 Betterley Lane
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $425,000
Buyer: John S. Chmura
Seller: Bretta Construction LLC
Date: 07/31/13

10 Crescent Hill
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $126,000
Buyer: Wells Fargo Bank NA
Seller: Jason L. Campbell
Date: 07/30/13

125 Dearborn St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: John M. Dickson
Seller: Rocco M. Carabetta
Date: 07/30/13

53 Edmund St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Eric A. Krupka
Seller: David J. Pallatino
Date: 08/01/13

27 Fairview St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Thaw Dar
Seller: Anthony Moriarty
Date: 08/09/13

29 Millbrook Dr.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $239,900
Buyer: Timothy L. Collins
Seller: Bailey, Robert J., (Estate)
Date: 08/02/13

198 Porter Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $294,900
Buyer: Sharon E. Bonasoni
Seller: Michael A. Torcia
Date: 08/02/13

25 Spring Valley Road
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Anthony Moriarty
Seller: Paul Courville
Date: 08/09/13

8 Vadnais St.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $272,500
Buyer: Lawrence Bradley
Seller: Mary E. Karpells
Date: 08/09/13

18 Wood Ave.
East Longmeadow, MA 01028
Amount: $140,300
Buyer: CLLC LLC
Seller: Michael P. Galvagni
Date: 08/02/13

GRANVILLE

359 South Lane
Granville, MA 01034
Amount: $157,000
Buyer: Joel R. Lewis
Seller: Randall S. White
Date: 08/01/13

HAMPDEN

Bennett Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Vincent P. Murphy
Seller: David F. Wentworth
Date: 08/02/13

4 Mount Vision Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $192,900
Buyer: Steven A. Aulisio
Seller: Kathleen Foster
Date: 08/02/13

63 Old Orchard Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: James E. Gagnon
Seller: Ruth A. Hatch
Date: 07/31/13

26 Walnut Road
Hampden, MA 01036
Amount: $262,000
Buyer: Jason Lopes
Seller: John E. Mullaney
Date: 07/31/13

HOLLAND

10 Old County Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $289,000
Buyer: Michael R. Vieira
Seller: Paixao Properties Inc.
Date: 08/09/13

53 Sandy Beach Road
Holland, MA 01521
Amount: $176,500
Buyer: Christopher Polkowski
Seller: J. B. Noble
Date: 08/08/13

HOLYOKE

3 Brenan St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Christopher Kulig
Seller: USA HUD
Date: 07/29/13

1594 Dwight St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $380,000
Buyer: William M. Radner
Seller: William M. Radner
Date: 07/29/13

3 Hendel Dr.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $207,500
Buyer: Robert A. Recoulle
Seller: Jeffrey L. Stoloff
Date: 07/31/13

108 Meadowbrook Road
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $168,550
Buyer: David Vogel
Seller: Paul, William F., (Estate)
Date: 07/31/13

Michelle Lane
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $315,900
Buyer: Diana C. Abbott
Seller: J. N. Duquette & Son Construction
Date: 07/31/13

211 Oak St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Richard Rubin
Seller: Hang Z. Huang
Date: 07/31/13

4 River Terrace
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $265,000
Buyer: Samuel W. Craig
Seller: Kenneth J. Watson
Date: 07/29/13

138 Saint Jerome Ave.
Holyoke, MA 01040
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Eric Reynolds
Seller: Patricia A. Griffin
Date: 08/08/13

LONGMEADOW

100 Arlington Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Judith A. Delong
Seller: George E. Markoulakis
Date: 07/30/13

Blokland Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Brenda L. Kashmanian
Seller: Paul J. Girard
Date: 07/29/13

263 Burbank Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $250,500
Buyer: Aruna Priya
Seller: George J. Krol
Date: 08/01/13

9 Churchill Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $544,500
Buyer: Harlan M. Wahrman
Seller: Robert T. Brooks
Date: 07/30/13

96 Colton Place
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $365,900
Buyer: Nicholas Pesce
Seller: David Dambrov
Date: 07/31/13

58 Fairfield Terrace
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $306,000
Buyer: Christopher M. Buendo
Seller: St.Michaels Construction Corp.
Date: 07/30/13

69 Fairfield Terrace
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Joanna Smiley
Seller: Ralph K. Chamberlain
Date: 07/31/13

13 Glenwood Circle
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $212,500
Buyer: Kimberly Guarnaccia
Seller: Christopher Karwoski
Date: 07/29/13

259 Inverness Lane
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Thomas L. Spiwak
Seller: Bettirose Eisner
Date: 08/09/13

5 Laurel St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $945,000
Buyer: Denis G. Gagnon
Seller: Laplante Construction Inc.
Date: 08/07/13

154 Lawrence Dr.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $477,750
Buyer: Marieanne Dambrov
Seller: Mayer A. Kahan
Date: 07/31/13

1497 Longmeadow St.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $267,250
Buyer: Jeremy R. Stambovsky
Seller: Todd E. Frederickson
Date: 07/31/13

335 Maple Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $193,000
Buyer: Michael J. Mowbray
Seller: Jeffrey A. Lomma
Date: 08/01/13

117 Pleasantview Ave.
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $277,500
Buyer: Christopher M. Carr
Seller: Elaine M. Geha
Date: 07/31/13

97 Roseland Terrace
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $291,821
Buyer: Mica LLC
Seller: Radomir Lazic
Date: 08/09/13

62 Woodsley Road
Longmeadow, MA 01106
Amount: $705,000
Buyer: Todd Adelson
Seller: Jennifer L. Cambi
Date: 08/01/13

LUDLOW

834 Center St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $128,500
Buyer: Christopher J. Sherman
Seller: Gail T. Green
Date: 07/29/13

334 Chapin St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $251,500
Buyer: Derek J. Chandonnet
Seller: Angelo Parlengas
Date: 07/29/13

99 East Akard St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $177,000
Buyer: Michelle A. Carner
Seller: Michelle J. Crochiere
Date: 07/31/13

43 Hampshire St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $158,000
Buyer: M. L. Bradway-Marshall
Seller: Jose A. Andre
Date: 08/05/13

96 Holy Cross Circle
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $218,500
Buyer: Laura S. Markiewicz
Seller: Riverbend 2 Props. LLC
Date: 07/30/13

425 Holyoke St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $312,500
Buyer: Nicholas J. Emmett
Seller: Philip J. Dunaj
Date: 08/07/13

17 Irla Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $295,000
Buyer: Brian A. Rogowski
Seller: Robert E. Wojtczak
Date: 08/09/13

494 Lyon St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $249,000
Buyer: Alexandre A. Carvalho
Seller: Richard S. Zych
Date: 08/07/13

50 McLean Pkwy.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Crystal M. Mateus
Seller: Patrick R. Tudryn
Date: 08/09/13

27 Munsing Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $269,900
Buyer: Jacqueline C. Rosa
Seller: Mark P. Russell
Date: 07/31/13

46 Pinewood Road
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $140,500
Buyer: Kevin J. Leclaire
Seller: Kevin J. Leclaire
Date: 08/05/13

23 Power Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $198,000
Buyer: Danielle M. Lombardi
Seller: Norman D. Dudley
Date: 08/09/13

35 Rogers Ave.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $165,000
Buyer: Kazimierz Borawski
Seller: Rosemary Rudloff
Date: 07/31/13

18 West Akard St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $129,000
Buyer: Jamie L. Thomas
Seller: Gerald Boduch
Date: 07/31/13

18 Warwick Dr.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: CSB Svc. Corp.
Seller: Lesley A. Kowalczyk
Date: 07/29/13

683 West St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Mario Ferrentino
Seller: Kelly A. Tracy
Date: 07/31/13

136 Yale St.
Ludlow, MA 01056
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: Yale Street LLC
Seller: Giza Mondry, Helen, (Estate)
Date: 08/05/13

MONSON

28 Bethany Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $129,000
Buyer: Sarah E. Longo
Seller: Teresa Kelley-Coffey
Date: 08/09/13

87 Lakeside Dr.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $335,000
Buyer: Alan Ehrlich
Seller: Christine E. Evans
Date: 07/31/13

9 Lincoln St.
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Wesley R. Crouch
Seller: Henry L. Padden
Date: 07/29/13

245 Palmer Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $123,000
Buyer: Sequoia Props. Realty LLC
Seller: Aldrich, William H., (Estate)
Date: 08/08/13

4 Zuell Road
Monson, MA 01057
Amount: $230,500
Buyer: David J. Kane
Seller: Michael R. McCurry
Date: 08/06/13

PALMER

16 Cedar Hill St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Joseph Amegah
Seller: Ye X. Yan
Date: 08/05/13

1033 Chestnut St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $171,500
Buyer: Acacio Sanches
Seller: Kathy A. Foster
Date: 08/01/13

28 Deborah St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $171,000
Buyer: Jessica M. Unsderfer
Seller: Derek J. Chandonnet
Date: 08/02/13

25 Geraldine St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Frederick J. Kotowski
Seller: Adam V. Hageman
Date: 07/30/13

2010 High St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $127,300
Buyer: Daniel Delisle
Seller: Steven A. Runnals
Date: 08/01/13

1505 North Main St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Linda S. Pardo
Seller: Cabot Realty LLC
Date: 08/02/13

1520 Park St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $330,000
Buyer: Ruport Realty LLC
Seller: Paul J. Les

2021 Prospect St.
Palmer, MA 01080
Amount: $121,000
Buyer: Jeremy R. Tuomisto
Seller: Roger W. Barnes
Date: 07/30/13

101 River St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $133,100
Buyer: Glen W. Shorette
Seller: Robert W. Shorette
Date: 08/06/13

118 State St.
Palmer, MA 01069
Amount: $119,000
Buyer: Carrie Morris
Seller: Eric G. Hiersche
Date: 08/07/13

RUSSELL

175 General Knox Road
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $195,000
Buyer: Katherine A. Stokowski
Seller: Freniere, Richard M., (Estate)
Date: 08/07/13

135 Timberidge Dr.
Russell, MA 01071
Amount: $137,900
Buyer: Shannon L. Trusty
Seller: FNMA
Date: 07/30/13

SPRINGFIELD

27 Ashland Ave.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $127,200
Buyer: Maureen E. Anton
Seller: Kimberly A. Nadolski
Date: 07/30/13

49 Bartels St.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $150,277
Buyer: Hassan Mourad
Seller: Mohammad Niroomand
Date: 08/01/13

53 Bissell St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Desiree S. Davis
Seller: FNMA
Date: 08/02/13

43 Caitlin Dr.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Antonio Teixeria
Seller: Jason A. Lopes
Date: 07/31/13

25 Canton St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $117,500
Buyer: Jose Cruzado
Seller: Lori A. Ruell
Date: 08/08/13

110 Carr St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $175,800
Buyer: Giuseppe Leone
Seller: Jeffrey W. Duda
Date: 07/29/13

50 Chauncey Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Carl J. Shaw
Seller: Stanley J. Rodak
Date: 07/31/13

82 Cherry St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $192,500
Buyer: Roberto Rodriguez
Seller: Homer Foucher
Date: 08/09/13

274 Christopher Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $180,000
Seller: David B. Failey
Date: 07/30/13

120 Clarendon St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Jack C. Dubose
Seller: Wesley Methodist Church
Date: 08/09/13

27 Deepfield Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $172,937
Buyer: Marilynn Jones
Seller: Philip D. Wood
Date: 07/29/13

5 Fair Oak Road
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $166,000
Buyer: Laura A. Phelan
Seller: Sara A. Brassil
Date: 07/31/13

174 Fort Pleasant Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Berkshire Land Co. LLC
Seller: HSBC Bank USA
Date: 07/29/13

49 Garcia St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $142,000
Buyer: Cassandra Washington
Seller: Maroun Ghossein
Date: 07/31/13

98 Gilman St.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Andrew D. Galaska
Seller: Joseph M. Daley
Date: 07/31/13

26 Granger St.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $151,000
Buyer: Sergio Flores
Seller: Mikhail S. Kutsel
Date: 08/07/13

239 Hanson Dr.
Springfield, MA 01128
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Thomas L. Gregoire
Seller: Steven A. Aulisio
Date: 07/30/13

36 Hartwick St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $131,500
Buyer: Timothy A. Bradley
Seller: Timothy L. Collins
Date: 08/02/13

77 Laurence St.
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Nelson J. Milano
Seller: Elaine C. Graham
Date: 07/30/13

595 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01105
Amount: $326,000
Buyer: Glory Inc.
Seller: 587 Main Realty Corp.
Date: 08/08/13

3400 Main St.
Springfield, MA 01199
Amount: $6,500,000
Buyer: Baystate Medical Center
Seller: Stutz Realty LLC
Date: 07/30/13

134 Mallowhill Road
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Shi L. Wu
Seller: Flavin, Chester E., (Estate)
Date: 07/30/13

Park Dr.
Springfield, MA 01101
Buyer: Denis G. Gagnon
Seller: Laplante Construction Inc.
Date: 08/07/13

53 Pennsylvania Ave.
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $172,000
Buyer: Michael R. Grimaldi
Seller: Jason N. Shrock
Date: 07/31/13

9 Ridgeway Circle
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $240,000
Buyer: Kathleen G. Walsh
Seller: Andrew F. Wissemann
Date: 08/02/13

201 Rosemary Dr.
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $137,000
Buyer: Jose A. Lebron-Vega
Seller: Daniel Garrity
Date: 08/02/13

105 Saint James Circle
Springfield, MA 01104
Amount: $155,000
Buyer: Ruth N. Rodriguez
Seller: CDM Props. LLC
Date: 08/01/13

251 Senator St.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $125,039
Buyer: Olga Jagiello
Seller: USA HUD
Date: 08/09/13

44 Texel Dr.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $138,900
Buyer: Robert D. Rizzuto
Seller: Connie R. Chaitovsky
Date: 08/02/13

509 Tiffany St.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Eliezer Reyes
Seller: Kathryn L. Calabrese
Date: 08/06/13

705 Union St.
Springfield, MA 01109
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Joshua Reid
Seller: Hallerin Realty LLP
Date: 08/08/13

297 West Allen Ridge Road
Springfield, MA 01118
Amount: $127,000
Buyer: Phuc N. Nguyen
Seller: Marlin Investments LLC
Date: 07/31/13

32 Warriner Ave.
Springfield, MA 01108
Amount: $131,250
Buyer: Monty LLC
Seller: Corey J. Fisher
Date: 08/01/13

1468 Wilbraham Road
Springfield, MA 01119
Amount: $149,000
Buyer: Greychi Alvarado
Seller: Rebecca Before
Date: 08/02/13

193 Winterset Dr.
Springfield, MA 01129
Amount: $168,000
Buyer: James J. Lucek
Seller: Daniel J. Manning
Date: 07/31/13

SOUTHWICK

20 Iroquois Dr.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Richard S. Zito
Seller: Barbara W. Sokolowski
Date: 08/02/13

17 Juniper Road
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $191,000
Buyer: Eric M. Brogan
Seller: Daniel A. Erwin
Date: 07/31/13

29 North Lake Ave.
Southwick, MA 01077
Amount: $124,900
Buyer: Michaelene J. Gurka
Seller: Debra A. Croteau
Date: 08/09/13

WALES

7 Church St.
Wales, MA 01081
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Andrew P. Duquette
Seller: Donald R. Bancroft
Date: 07/30/13

WESTFIELD

48 Bailey Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $350,000
Buyer: Johnathan J. Timek
Seller: Scarfo Construction Inc.
Date: 07/30/13

1087 East Mountain Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $115,500
Buyer: Anil K. Mallavarapu
Seller: Bank Of America FSB
Date: 07/31/13

455 Falley Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Sarah E. Scott
Seller: Kelly A. Prenosil
Date: 08/08/13

32 Heritage Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Christopher N. Riga
Seller: Daniel R. Gintowt
Date: 07/29/13

37 Joseph Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $160,000
Buyer: Corrine K. Holland
Seller: Holland, Andree J., (Estate)
Date: 07/31/13

8 Leaview Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Dawn R. Schlien
Seller: Joan H. Ugolik
Date: 07/31/13

17 Linden Ave.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $169,847
Buyer: Michael C. McGrievey
Seller: Julieann A. Schortmann
Date: 08/07/13

156 Meadow St.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $120,000
Buyer: John R. Gordner
Seller: Teresa M. Orlandi
Date: 07/31/13

139 Springdale Road
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: Jason M. Perron
Seller: Barbara J. Bell
Date: 07/31/13

315 Steiger Dr.
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $310,000
Buyer: Christopher O’Brien
Seller: Jason P. Queenin
Date: 07/31/13

36 Stephanie Lane
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $298,000
Buyer: Timothy E. Slowick
Seller: Christopher M. Watroba
Date: 08/01/13

Violet Circle
Westfield, MA 01085
Amount: $117,000
Buyer: Kopatz Construction Inc.
Seller: Scarfo Construction Inc.
Date: 08/01/13

WILBRAHAM

5 Autumn Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $455,000
Buyer: Jessie E. Donovan
Seller: Gregory G. Loboda
Date: 08/01/13

8 Briar Cliff Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: Kristin M. Gates
Seller: Sturbridge Dev. LLC
Date: 08/09/13

150 Chilson Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Scott M. Mchugh
Seller: Mark E. Przechocki
Date: 08/05/13

5 Elm Circle
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Valerie Labine-Perry
Seller: Jeanne M. Moriarty
Date: 08/08/13

17 Falcon Hts.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $1,250,000
Buyer: Jay C. Falik
Seller: Diana J. Walker
Date: 07/30/13

5 Fox Hill Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $299,000
Buyer: Mark E. Przechocki
Seller: Raymond J. Wright
Date: 08/05/13

9 Harness Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $410,000
Buyer: Rory M. Sullivan
Seller: Kristin M. Gates
Date: 08/09/13

15 Meadowview Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $249,500
Buyer: Gregory J. Rogers
Seller: Rory M. Sullivan
Date: 07/30/13

2 Pidgeon Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $237,900
Buyer: Shelby L. Cook
Seller: Kenneth J. Marowski
Date: 08/08/13

3 Powers Dr.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $415,000
Buyer: Philip J. Dunaj
Seller: Mary K. Counos
Date: 08/07/13

34 Pomeroy St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $222,500
Buyer: Daniel J. Manning
Seller: Lillian F. Malandrinos
Date: 07/31/13

17 Ripley St.
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $187,500
Buyer: Elizabeth M. Nelson
Seller: Mary Boyajy
Date: 07/30/13

28 Soule Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Kerrin M. Bigda
Seller: Alexander A. Berezkin
Date: 07/30/13

443 Stony Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Michael R. Parker
Seller: Robert L. Gaudette
Date: 07/31/13

899 Stony Hill Road
Wilbraham, MA 01095
Amount: $235,000
Buyer: Brian Cunningham
Seller: Elizabeth K. Lee
Date: 08/02/13

WEST SPRINGFIELD

77 Armstrong St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $135,000
Buyer: Thomas W. Clutz
Seller: Francisco Rodriguez
Date: 07/30/13

116 Chestnut St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $192,500
Buyer: Craig A. Dore
Seller: Charles L. Dore
Date: 07/31/13

25 E. School St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Chitra K. Rai
Seller: Karl F. Schwarzkopf
Date: 08/01/13

49 E. School St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Yekub Shakhanov
Seller: Morray Inc.
Date: 07/31/13

104 Edgewood Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $259,900
Buyer: Miriam B. Steinberg
Seller: Kelley A. Breck
Date: 07/31/13

18 Hillside Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $157,500
Buyer: Justin S. Bergeron
Seller: Jonathan Bernard
Date: 07/30/13

25 Irving St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $167,500
Buyer: Battista Property Mgmt. LLC
Seller: Richard N. Majkowski
Date: 07/31/13

112 Lewis Ave.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $215,000
Buyer: Oleksandr Demyanchuk
Seller: Timothy A. Neal
Date: 08/08/13

190 Lower Beverly Hills
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $182,250
Buyer: Keith B. Lee
Seller: Jennifer L. Bharvirkar
Date: 07/29/13

29 Robinson Road
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $183,000
Buyer: Nico Paolucci
Seller: Timothy E. Slowick
Date: 07/29/13

19 Spring St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $118,000
Buyer: Marina Efremova
Seller: NSP Residential LLC
Date: 07/30/13

31 Sunnyside St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $115,000
Buyer: Vyatcheslav Tsukanov
Seller: Alfred A. Bernard
Date: 07/31/13

104 Vincent Dr.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $246,000
Buyer: Matthew L. Krokov
Seller: Flagstone Props. Inc.
Date: 07/31/13

33 Windsor St.
West Springfield, MA 01089
Amount: $140,000
Buyer: Vasiliy Panchenko
Seller: Earl F. Camp
Date: 07/29/13

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY

AMHERST

56 Berkshire Terrace
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $312,000
Buyer: Matthew J. Spitzer
Seller: Annaliese Bischoff
Date: 08/05/13

55 Chapel Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $395,000
Buyer: Haivan V. Hoang
Seller: Canale, Parola Ercole, (Estate)
Date: 07/29/13

40 Dickinson St.
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $325,000
Buyer: Todd Volk
Seller: Gloria B. Morton TR
Date: 08/09/13

15 Hawthorn Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $745,000
Buyer: William M. Doerr
Seller: Bercume Construction LLC
Date: 08/02/13

43 Hitchcock Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $464,000
Buyer: Amherst College
Seller: William C. Taubman
Date: 08/01/13

Lindenridge Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Bercume Construction LLC
Seller: Western Development Corp.
Date: 08/06/13

N/A
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $301,000
Buyer: Jon W. Holcombe
Seller: Anne M. Taylor
Date: 08/05/13

374 Old Montague Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $612,000
Buyer: Vlad Zakashansky
Seller: Carol S. Gross
Date: 08/02/13

24 Potwine Lane
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Michael MacDonald
Seller: David E. Seymour
Date: 08/01/13

80 Rolling Ridge Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $336,000
Buyer: Michelle E. Farkas
Seller: Susan A. Howard
Date: 08/01/13

682 Station Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Abida Adnan
Seller: Mass. Properties Mgmt. LLC
Date: 07/31/13

45 Woodlot Road
Amherst, MA 01002
Amount: $480,000
Buyer: Qian Ya
Seller: Richard Rubin
Date: 07/30/13

BELCHERTOWN

81 Allen Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Kyle J. Thibeault
Seller: Chester A. Banach
Date: 08/02/13

29 Mill Valley Road
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $238,000
Buyer: William M. Watson
Seller: Mitchell W. Vincent
Date: 07/31/13

5 Tucker Lane
Belchertown, MA 01007
Amount: $220,000
Buyer: Marianne Waszkelewicz
Seller: Mary A. O’Neil
Date: 08/09/13

CHESTERFIELD

125 Bryant St.
Chesterfield, MA 01012
Amount: $360,000
Buyer: Michael Alterman
Seller: Linda E. Jones
Date: 08/06/13

EASTHAMPTON

6 Adams St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $260,000
Buyer: Natali Hernandez-Gardiol
Seller: Mukunda Feldman
Date: 07/30/13

22 Carillon Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $237,000
Buyer: Kevin R. Doherty
Seller: Michael E. Czerapowicz LT
Date: 07/31/13

16 Chapman Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $219,900
Buyer: Michael L. Mactavish
Seller: John R. Gasperini
Date: 08/01/13

10 Holyoke St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $239,900
Buyer: Susan M. Tallon
Seller: David G. Poppie
Date: 08/09/13

19 Knipfer Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: James L. Patterson
Seller: Laurie A. Kline
Date: 08/09/13

20 Knipfer Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $229,900
Buyer: John B. Allison
Seller: Kevin C. Netto
Date: 07/31/13

305 Loudville Road
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $187,390
Buyer: Justin T. Skoronski
Seller: FNMA
Date: 08/09/13

75 Northampton St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $245,000
Buyer: Auouk Alquier
Seller: Bruce C. Nolan
Date: 08/09/13

157 Park St.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $279,000
Buyer: Daniel J. Hartman
Seller: Rosa M. Gomes
Date: 07/29/13

19 River Valley Way
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $125,000
Buyer: Jeffrey S. Cahill
Seller: EH Homeownership LLC
Date: 08/07/13

86 Williston Ave.
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $190,000
Buyer: FHLM
Seller: Shawn T. Asher
Date: 08/01/13

3 Windsor Circle
Easthampton, MA 01027
Amount: $280,000
Buyer: Robert E. Sass
Seller: Mark M. Hammond
Date: 08/07/13

GRANBY

300 Batchelor St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $180,000
Buyer: Matthew Hamel
Seller: Jeannette A. Boczon
Date: 08/09/13

50 Morgan St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $242,000
Buyer: Robert H. Mongeon
Seller: David E. Bolio
Date: 07/31/13

6 Oak Dr.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Tomothy S. Sorrentino
Seller: Claude D. Lambert
Date: 07/30/13

204 School St.
Granby, MA 01033
Amount: $178,000
Buyer: James N. Brousard
Seller: Jeanne Yocum
Date: 07/30/13

HADLEY

14 Aloha Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $285,000
Buyer: Richard M. Klein
Seller: Higgins, Barry R., (Estate)
Date: 08/01/13

59 River Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $684,935
Buyer: John H. Kokoski
Seller: Peter J. Klimoski
Date: 07/31/13

72 River Dr.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $175,000
Buyer: Marjorie Rule
Seller: Williams H. Wallis
Date: 08/02/13

26 Russell St.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $170,000
Buyer: Jerry Rybczynski
Seller: Edward W. Forman
Date: 07/29/13

8 Stockbridge Road
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $276,000
Buyer: Jeffry J. Gummeson
Seller: James J. Dinopoulos
Date: 08/09/13

22 Sylvia Hts.
Hadley, MA 01035
Amount: $575,000
Buyer: Yadin Mor
Seller: James T&B Henderson LT
Date: 07/29/13

HATFIELD

64 Bridge St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $248,000
Buyer: Mary K. Shoro
Date: 07/31/13

115 Elm St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $255,000
Buyer: Jefferey P. Laflamme
Seller: Hatfield Village LLC
Date: 08/02/13

17 King St.
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $299,900
Buyer: Stephen Luippold
Seller: Jacob N. Masenior
Date: 08/05/13

104 Mountain Road
Hatfield, MA 01038
Amount: $412,000
Buyer: Christyn J. Fagan
Seller: Paul D. Palmisciano
Date: 08/06/13

NORTHAMPTON

24 Adare Plce
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $465,000
Buyer: Julie N. Tomlinson-Nolan
Seller: Steven R. Roszko
Date: 08/09/13

18 Cherry St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $284,500
Buyer: D. McKay Separate Share TR
Seller: Judy A. Madzunovic
Date: 07/29/13

22 Claire Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Sarah D. Haessler
Seller: Amherst Green Dev. LLC
Date: 08/05/13

95 Emerson Way
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $511,000
Buyer: Jennifer M. Recht
Seller: Rosemund LLC
Date: 08/09/13

22 Fort Hill Terrace
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $363,500
Buyer: Jeremy F. Hartman
Seller: O’Neill, Mary E., (Estate)
Date: 08/01/13

72 Fox Farms Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $362,500
Buyer: Craig N. Ruberti
Seller: Helen R. Covekk RET
Date: 08/01/13

235 Glendale Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $159,900
Buyer: James A. Coyle
Seller: Terrie M. Jarosz
Date: 08/01/13

16 Hancock St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $389,000
Buyer: Peter A. Thunfors
Seller: Lorena Donaldson-Zurita
Date: 08/05/13

39 Ladyslipper Lane
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $459,000
Buyer: Adam P. Kittredge
Seller: Carol R. Schroeder
Date: 07/31/13

97 Laurel Park
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $203,000
Buyer: Terence Ragasa
Seller: Jena M. Sujat
Date: 08/08/13

29 Longview Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $190,500
Buyer: Christopher C. Slack
Seller: Lois E. Newton
Date: 08/09/13

22 Maple St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $333,000
Buyer: Katherine Eileen
Seller: Eric A. Cohen
Date: 07/30/13

178 North Elm St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $241,350
Buyer: Catherine McCune
Seller: Kevin L. Alix
Date: 07/30/13

280 Old Wilson Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $551,000
Buyer: Olena Parkhomenko
Seller: Kerry Brozyna
Date: 08/01/13

7 Pine St.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Alexander M. Kalish
Seller: Craig N. Ruberti
Date: 08/01/13

17 Prospect Hts.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $284,000
Buyer: Marvin T. Elline
Seller: Susan J. Meunier
Date: 08/09/13

111 Prospect St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $675,000
Buyer: Deevia C. Patel
Seller: Fay A. Klein
Date: 07/31/13

327 Riverside Dr.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $305,500
Buyer: Lindsay S. Pope
Seller: Byongok Chon
Date: 08/07/13

306 Rocky Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $370,000
Buyer: Lynne M. Davis
Seller: George W. Adams
Date: 08/02/13

459 Rocky Hill Road
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $250,000
Buyer: Elizabeth M. Skelley
Seller: Robert K. Eckert
Date: 08/09/13

137 Spruce Hill Ave.
Northampton, MA 01062
Amount: $227,900
Buyer: Magdalene Aulik
Seller: Robert Eveleigh
Date: 07/31/13

140 Williams St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Amount: $142,800
Buyer: Dana L. Goldblat
Seller: Samuel Conklin
Date: 07/29/13

PLAINFIELD

278 Prospect St.
Plainfield, MA 01070
Amount: $275,000
Buyer: Bruce G. Hooke
Seller: Jonathan R. Lawrence
Date: 08/07/13

SOUTH HADLEY

14 Broad St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $225,000
Buyer: Matthew Yee
Seller: Robert A. Recoulle
Date: 07/31/13

112 Granby Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $222,000
Buyer: Sharon M. Styffe
Seller: Nichilas S. Collins
Date: 08/01/13

32 Leahey Ave.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $278,500
Buyer: Michelle L. Fitzell
Seller: Thomas W. Carey
Date: 07/29/13

3 Leblanc Dr.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $387,500
Buyer: Kelley A. Fike
Seller: Anthony G. Catterton
Date: 08/01/13

101 Pine St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $200,000
Buyer: Arthur E. Procter
Seller: Christopher J. Potito
Date: 07/31/13

11 Ranger St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $185,000
Buyer: Christopher S. Sormanti
Seller: Michael P. Lynch
Date: 08/02/13

9 Spring Meadows
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $345,000
Buyer: Scott A. Lynch
Seller: Sandra Schuhlen
Date: 07/31/13

26 Upper River Road
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $300,000
Buyer: Daniel F. Muldoon
Seller: James W. Knapp
Date: 07/31/13

7 Warner St.
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $205,000
Buyer: Steven K. Eckman
Seller: Daniel E. Cyr
Date: 08/09/13

4 Wright Place
South Hadley, MA 01075
Amount: $212,000
Buyer: Joseph D. Mancinelli
Seller: Susan L. Anderson
Date: 08/09/13

SOUTHAMPTON

72 Glendale Road
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $365,000
Buyer: Patricia A. Hoynoski
Seller: Richard L. Truehart
Date: 08/01/13

14 Mountain View Circle
Southampton, MA 01073
Amount: $197,500
Buyer: Elizabeth M. Farrell
Seller: Richard Blackbird
Date: 08/07/13

WARE

19 Eagle St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $159,900
Buyer: Joseph P. Sutkaitis
Seller: Joseph Wilga
Date: 07/31/13

46 Eddy St.
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $128,000
Buyer: Jonathan Underwood
Seller: Pioneer Valley Redevelopment LLC
Date: 08/08/13

15 Hillside Terrace
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $276,500
Buyer: Dale A. Walker
Seller: Sean S. Murray
Date: 07/31/13

West Warren Road
Ware, MA 01082
Amount: $150,000
Buyer: West Warren Road LLC
Date: 07/30/13

WESTHAMPTON

91 North Road
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $258,000
Buyer: David G. Poppie
Seller: Mark A. Miller
Date: 08/09/13

14 Pine Island Lake
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $212,000
Buyer: Nicholas S. Divenere
Seller: Donald R. Affhauser RET
Date: 08/07/13

54 Pine Island Lake
Westhampton, MA 01027
Amount: $650,000
Buyer: Diana C. Killip
Seller: Robert D. Marmor
Date: 07/31/13

WORTHINGTON

47 Conwell Road
Worthington, MA 01098
Amount: $340,000
Buyer: Madeleine A. Cahill
Seller: Klouda FT
Date: 07/31/13

Grape Expectations

By
Sections Travel and Tourism
Area Vintners Are Seeing the Fruits of Their Labor

Larry Godard

Larry Godard says a close-knit network of vintners has sprung up organically across the region.

Larry Godard acknowledged that he considers them somewhat backhanded compliments. But he loves hearing them anyway.

“They’ll taste one and look at me and pause and say, ‘this is really good,’ and they emphasize the ‘really good’ part as if they are surprised at the high quality,” said Godard, referring to comments about the labels, including Red Hen Red, he’s now producing at Mineral Hills Winery at the Red Hen Farm in Florence.

Elaborating, he said that many of the growing number of visitors to Mineral Hills are from Connecticut and New York. They are wine connoisseurs, and they’ve been to many small wineries across the Northeast. But Western Mass. is a relatively new destination for many of them, and this is one of the reasons behind many of those ‘really good’ comments.

And Godard’s not the only one hearing them.

Gary and Bobbie Kamen

Millennials are a promising new customer base for Gary and Bobbie Kamen at Mount Warner Winery.

Indeed, he is the sole proprietor of one of a growing number of what could be called start-up vineyards and wineries across the Valley, including Black Birch Winery down the road in Southampton, Amherst Winery in Amherst, Mount Warner Winery in Hadley (which overlooks the UMass Amherst campus), Pioneer Valley Vineyard in Hatfield, Les Trois Emme Vineyard & Winery in New Marlboro in the Berkshires, and several others.

They are all part of something called the Massachusetts Wine & Cheese Trail, overseen by the Mass. Farm Wineries and Growers Assoc. (MFWGA), to which Godard belongs, but could eventually comprise a separate wine trail in the four western counties.

In the meantime, Godard and others like him — individuals with a passion for wine and the means and the inclination to go into business making and selling it — are creating what could be described as a community of vintners, and a close-knit one at that.

“A wine trail is already happening by default,” Godard said, explaining that he’ll send his guests to Black Birch and Amherst Winery, and they will in turn send their visitors along to the other wineries in the area. “We have a nice little cluster right here. In fact, Ian Modestow [partner with Black Birch Winery] came over one day to borrow a cup of yeast, like a neighbor borrowing a cup of sugar.”

Mary Hamel, a partner with Black Birch Winery, also noted the fellowship among the region’s wine makers. “That’s one thing about the wine industry that I think is very cool,” she noted. “You don’t feel like you’re in competition with anyone because we support each other, and the more wineries there are, the better it is for all of us.”

More wineries would seem to be a likelihood in every state because demand is growing, and there are many aging Baby Boomers eyeing wine making as a bridge to full-time retirement. According to the 2012-13 “State of the Wine Industry” report by Silicon Valley Bank, a California financial institution specializing the U.S. wine industry, Millennials and Baby Boomers are the two largest sectors of wine consumers, and consumption rates are growing most rapidly among Millennials and men.

And while a burgeoning wine trail will help the region’s vintners, an official trail will certainly be a boon to the Greater Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau (GSCVB).

Michele Goldberg, director of marketing for the GSCVB, told BusinessWest that, while the Connecticut Vineyard and Wine Assoc., with its established wine trail, is a longtime member, Western Mass. wineries fall perfectly into the emerging ‘farm-to-table’ movement in the tourism industry.

Ed and Mary Hamel

Ed and Mary Hamel of Black Birch Winery have doubled their visitation for wine tastings through great word-of-mouth referrals.

“From a tourism perspective, wine tasting is incredibly popular with groups and for ‘girlfriend getaways,’ and a future wine trail would be a welcome addition to our diverse list of things to do in the Pioneer Valley,” said Goldberg, adding that the tourism bureau is constantly fielding inquiries from meeting planners looking for unique after-hours activities for convention attendees.

For this issue and its focus on tourism, BusinessWest visited with several area vintners to talk about their businesses and their outlook on how wine can become a prominent part of the region’s economy and tourism sector.

 

Heard It Through the Grapevine

The stories beyond the wineries taking root in the Valley all vary, but there are many common denominators.

They were started, in most cases, by professionals who decided to turn a hobby into a business venture. These entrepreneurs had some struggles getting things both in the ground and off the ground, but they’re now seeing the fruits of their labors — in more ways than one. And they all will inevitably use the phrase ‘an art and a science’ to describe the process of making a fine wine.

Godard, former vice president at MassMutual, with his wife, Susan, a schoolteacher, is a great example of today’s vintner whose passion for making wine became his ‘second-life’ business.

They established their 60-acre Mineral Hills farm in 1984, and for years they had a well-established honor-system farm stand offering apples, blueberries, cider, and honey products from Susan’s bees. Soon their hobby grew to include a variety of flavors of wine made from apples, blueberries, and grapes. It was only after Godard retired from MassMutual in 2009 that he decided to “go pro,” as he called it, and turn the winemaking hobby into a full-time venture, launching Mineral Hills Winery in the fall of 2010. Godard now produces wines from French-American hybrid grapes, but also imports European vinifera grapes from California for his reds.

At Black Birch Winery, two couples share various duties to run one of the newest wineries in the area. Florence dentist Ian Modestow is the vintner, while construction and home-inspection-company owner Ed Hamel manages the two acres of new vineyards, with five more acres soon to be cultivated.

Modestow’s wife, Michelle Kersbergen, and Hamel’s wife, Mary Hamel, both dental hygienists, manage the marketing and outreach, but all four partners pitch in wherever needed.

Because the vineyards at Black Birch were planted in 2010 and are young (they still have about two years of maturity until they can be harvested), the proprietors currently source their grapes from Southeastern Mass. or the Finger Lakes region of New York.

Since June 2012, they’ve doubled their visitation, from 650 tastings to 1,480 this August, with wines priced between $16 and $20.

Hamel was one of the many who put ‘art’ and ‘science’ in the same sentence as she talked about wine making. “That’s why Ian is so good at it, because that’s what dentistry is, too,” she explained. “A dentist has to know the science, but has to be an artist to get your tooth to look exactly as it did before.”

The owners of Mount Warner Winery in Hadley — Gary Kamen, a UMass professor of Kinesiology who is in ‘phased retirement,’ and his wife, Bobbie, a strategic planner with AARP — agreed.

“I think the reason I enjoy grape growing and making wine is because they are both part art and part science, probably because of my science background,” said Gary Kamen. “Each person who gets into this business enters it with a different perspective.”

Like Godard and the partners at Black Birch, the Kamens started growing grapes with six cuttings, or vines, in their field in 2000. Soon they were making wine, and, like Godard, they decided to ‘go pro’ in 2010, opening their winery in June 2012. Now, with 725 vines per acre, they have six wines, including two dessert wines priced between $14 and $20.

Les Trois Emme Winery in New Marlborough, owned and operated by Wayne and Mary Jane Eline, is located just south of Ski Butternut in Great Barrington and minutes from the Norman Rockwell Museum and Tanglewood. While the rural town has a residential population of 1,400, it swells to more than 3,000 with tourists and second-home residents from New York.

Wayne Eline is a former chemistry teacher and high-school principal who, like Godard, took his hobby to a whole new level after retirement in 1999. The Elines set their first vines in the dirt in 2000, and by 2003, they were open for business.

“If you’re going to get into it, you’ve got to make it into a real business, rather than just playing games. It didn’t take long to go from where it was to where it is now,” he said, adding that he has tripled his yield over the past decade due to “getting really earnest” about the business in 2009.

The venture now produces 11 to 13 wines, with Stingy Jack Pumpkin, a white wine with a fusion of pumpkin spices, emerging as the most popular.

 

Age-old Tradition

Godard described wine tasting as a very personal experience — for both the taster and the winemaker — and something he’s getting used to as visitation numbers continue to climb.

But he admits that some comments, including those spiced with ‘really good,’ leave him amused and often surprised.

He recalled one visitor from California who commented, “your wines aren’t like our wines,” to which Godard jokingly replied, “that’s like saying your chicken isn’t like our duck.”

The difference, he said, is between French hybrid grapes that grow best in the Northeast, and European vinifera grapes that area vintners source from California, and the two very different climates in which they grow.

“Our wines are different, and they [people from California] should have learned their lesson, because they were treated the same way by the French until the French had their eyes opened when the California wines started taking gold medals at international wine competitions. And that’s happening here now.”

All four wineries have won awards regionally for their wines, and this is perhaps one reason why they’re seeing and meeting a number of avid wine lovers from Connecticut, venturing past that state’s wine trail.

To help bolster visitation, the MFWGA has been promoting the annual Massachusetts Wine Passport Program, which offers a $2 passport to 15 participating wineries in the state. Once the visitor has all 15 unique passport codes from each winery, they are eligible to enter a drawing to win a cellar full of Massachusetts wine.

For Goldberg and the GSCVB, anything that promotes regional ‘buy-local’ efforts is beneficial, and a Western Mass. wine trail would certainly help bring more people to the western counties.

“Eventually, having a number of successful wineries could lead to a Pioneer Valley Wine Trail, wine festivals, and harvest festivals,” she noted.

Western Mass WineriesA number of wineries already feature their labels at area farmers’ markets, thanks to the Massachusetts Farm Winery Bill, backed by the MFWGA, which allows vintners in the Commonwealth to sell their wine at such venues.

Keeping with the theme, the Kamens’ philosophy is to make wine only from grapes and fruit that they grow.

“We intend to make a Massachusetts product out of a Pioneer Valley product.” he said, adding that his winery regularly attends the Amherst and the South Hadley farmers’ markets, while Hamel said Black Birch Winery has seen definite growth and awareness of their wines through their appearances at the Northampton Farmers’ Market.

 

Juicy Futures

Just this summer, the Wine Marketing Council, working with the Nielsen Co., released its annual statistics regarding the global wine market, and found that Baby Boomers spend the most on wine, but with more than 15,000 Millennials coming of age per day, a new target market is emerging. Bobbie Kamen is definitely seeing more young people at Mount Warner Winery.

“Millennials are very eager to try a lot of different things; it’s an exploration for them,” she said.  “And if they like it, they’ll buy it.”

Hamel said Black Birch also sees a number of Millennials, which she considers somewhat surprising, but very promising for the future. “On our Facebook likes, the Millennials age group is the biggest,” she said, adding that, while they may not yet have the disposable incomes that Baby Boomers do, they appreciate fine wine and are establishing themselves as solid customers for decades to come.

While advertising will be important, trust in the valued word-of-mouth endorsement will become even more important to this younger generation in learning about the next new thing in wine.

“Word of mouth is really important for us no matter what age, because, yes, we’re in the business of wine,” Hamel stated, “but we’re also in the business of giving people a great experience.”

And at the moment, this is a business laden with potential — not only to spur economic development and jobs, but also to provide a big boost to a host of efforts to put Western Mass. on the map for many different types of visitors.

In other words, when it comes to wine and wineries, the region’s producers have grape expectations.

 

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]

Right Place, Right Time

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MacDuffie’s New Campus in Granby Offers Room for Growth

Steve Griffin, left, and Tom Addicks

Steve Griffin, left, and Tom Addicks say the Granby campus can help create a stronger balance between boarding and day students.

Steve Griffin wasn’t at the MacDuffie School campus on Ames Hill in Springfield when the June 1, 2011 tornado tore through the middle of it, uprooting huge trees and damaging century-old buildings as it moved east.

He started as head of the then-121-year-old school two weeks later, when the institution was still sorting out the damage, adding up the cost, and counting blessings — the tornado hit on the last day of classes, and students and staff took shelter in a basement, with no recorded injuries.

Originally, Griffin’s first assignment when he arrived was to oversee relocation of the school to new quarters on the grounds of the former St. Hyacinth seminary in Granby — a process that started roughly two years earlier — but the tornado changed that plan somewhat. The new first order business would be a healing process.

“We have many tornado stories from the campus,” said Griffin. “And from my standpoint, since I wasn’t here during the storm, I was unaware of the extent of it, but you had people, even a year later, opening file folders and seeing shards of glass fall out.”

But if the memories of the tornado and some of the physical evidence of that day still remain, MacDuffie has certainly moved on from that calamity and some years of economic struggle that preceded it, and the new campus in Granby has greatly facilitated that process.

Indeed, the move represented what Griffin called a “new day” for the institution, and in many respects.

He explained to BusinessWest that the new campus enables the school to market itself more effectively to a much wider audiences — from residents of Hampshire County communities such as Amherst and Northampton, who were previously intimidated by a commute to Springfield, to international students.

The sprawling campus, coupled with recent renovation and expansion efforts, are enabling MacDuffie to continue and expand its respected academic programs, while also making huge strides in efforts to take its athletic programs to a much higher level.

The former St. Hyacinth seminary in Granby

The former St. Hyacinth seminary in Granby offers an environment in which the MacDuffie School can grow, with more classroom space, boarding quarters, and several acres of playing fields.

At the Springfield site, there were no playing fields to speak of, said Tom Addicks, assistant head of school and a math teacher, adding that the school had to make use of various municipal parks and sports facilities. “And here, we have so many playing fields and a very in-depth sports program, and that was very appealing to us.”

The sprawling grounds that roll out like green carpet to the stately stone former seminary offers the classic New England preparatory-school experience that appeals to parents of American and international students, and allows MacDuffie to compete with nearby Wilbraham Monson, Deerfield Academy, and Suffield Academy, said Griffin.

“The site is a real gem; it’s got the ‘look’ when you drive up the drive — ‘majestic’ is a great word for it considering the open space, the pastoral setting,” he noted. “I think parents feel this will be a safe environment for their children to learn, both day students as well as international students.”

And there are now hopes — and high expectations — for growing enrollment in both the day and boarding categories, he went on, adding that enrollment is currently at 246, with a capacity of 270 and a firm resolve to get to that number.

For this issue and its focus on education and going back to school, BusinessWest toured the ‘new’ MacDuffie, and talked at length with administrators about why the new location and facilities will help students grow physically, culturally, and academically.

 

History Lesson

MacDuffie can trace its history back to one of the first graduates of Radcliffe College, Abigail MacDuffie.

In 1890, she and her husband, John, recognized a need in the Greater Springfield area for a strong college-preparatory school that would open doors for women and provide them access to to the same quality education they received at Radcliffe and Harvard, respectively.

They opened the MacDuffie School with 70 girls and quickly earned a reputation for excellence, one that would eventually draw students from across the area and around the world. By 1990, the school had taken on a far more international feel — in many ways out of necessity —  with students from many foreign countries.

By the dawn of the new millennium, however, MacDuffie’s enrollment was falling, and the urban campus in Springfield, one that had charm but was still lacking in facilities, was viewed as one of the main reasons why.

The school’s board quietly began a search for a new, more suburban home, and eventually narrowed that search to the former St. Hyacinth’s, which had become a temporary home to Holyoke Catholic High School.

MacDuffie officials eventually commenced negotiations with Wayne Brewer, who was eyeing the site as home for the planned Granby Preparatory Academy, a facility he blueprinted based on a model very similar to MacDuffie’s. The school would go on to purchase the assets and intellectual property of Brewer’s business.

The school now owns 26 of the 500 acres at the St. Hyacinth’s location, with an additional 29 acres in negotiation. It has invested millions in building infrastructure, sports fields, and classroom improvements — including expanded dance, music, and art facilities — since the summer of 2011. Currently, a new computer lab is under construction within the main academic building, while a new, 400-seat auditorium, more classroom and boarding space, and sports facilities are in the planning stages.

The new location had an immediate and profound impact on enrollment, said Griffin, noting that there were 175 students at MacDuffie in the spring of 2011, and 206 enrolled by the start of classes that fall. The numbers have been steadily rising, due in large part to larger boarding facilities on the St. Hyacinth’s campus, which have enabled more students from overseas to enroll.

“There’s a real international appeal,” said Griffin. “The old campus was limited in its footprint, and we’ve been able to double the boarding population, and that’s just in two years.”

Moving forward, the school wants to grow enrollment in both the day and boarding categories, and create more balance within the student body; currently, 60% of those enrolled are boarding students, while the stated goal is a 50-50 split.

Historically, the school has been known for its performing-arts programs, specifically drama and dance, but is also noted for its math program, Addicks told BusinessWest. But while the academic offerings have never been an issue for the school, broadening its sporting opportunities had historically been a challenge.

The move to Granby has enabled the school to aggressively address such issues, said Addicks, noting that the MacDuffie Mustangs, members of the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC), have moved to the AA division from the D division, a move made possible by improved facilities and a larger pool of student athletes.

The sports program includes boys and girls soccer, girls volleyball and lacrosse, badminton, cross country, golf, a swim club (which operates out of the Holyoke YMCA), tennis, ultimate Frisbee, and an advanced boys and girls basketball program that is bringing townspeople of Granby to the gymnasium.

“The town is realizing that this is some really high-quality basketball,” said Griffin. “The enhanced facilities have allowed us to broaden our appeal, so to speak.”

And broadening their appeal couldn’t have come at a better time.

“We survived the recession when other independent schools did not,” Griffin said. “However, while some private schools are recession-proof, most parents have to rely on more financial assistance these days.”

With day-school tuition at $20,250 (grades 6-8) and $25,250 (grades 9-12), and boarding tuition at $48,650 for all grades, Griffin and Addicks say MacDuffie’s prices are certainly competitive, and now offer additional value with the facilities at the new campus.

“I think our biggest selling point is the relationship we have between our teachers and our students, and our success at integrating our international students with our day students is a very important part of MacDuffie,” said Addicks.

Added Griffin, “we want our claim to fame to be known as the local full-service educational institution that can offer the individualized attention in a caring community.”

 

Common Ground

The tornado that touched down on June 1, 2011 represented a sad final chapter to MacDuffie’s long history in Springfield.

But as that book was closing, another was getting set to open 15 miles to the north.

The move to Granby was undertaken to give the school that new day that Griffin described, and the opportunity to grow and evolve in ways that were simply not possible on the Ames Hill campus.

Two years after the relocation, the picture is considerably brighter than it had been, and the potential for the future is as vast as the open spaces at MacDuffie’s new mailing address.

 

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]

Slow Climb

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Headwinds Continue to Impede the Recovery

CoverBW-0813aIt was Ronald Reagan who, while trying to unseat incumbent Jimmy Carter in the heated 1980 presidential race, famously asked Americans if they were better off than they were four years earlier.

Enough answered ‘no,’ either literally or figuratively, to put him in the White House. And since then, countless politicians have borrowed or slightly amended the phrase in an effort to advance their cause.

But economists have taken to employing that line as well, and many are asking that question today, although with a slight twist.

Indeed, people in virtually every region of the country can answer ‘yes,’ because four years ago was the height — or the nadir, depending on how one chooses to look at things — of the Great Recession, with national employment at or just above 10%. So the questions being asked today, especially in Western Mass., are ‘just how much better off are you than four years go?’ and, increasingly, ‘why aren’t we better off than we are?’

There are many factors that play into that latter query, ranging from persistent uncertainty on the part of business owners regarding the short and long term, to the emerging matter of sequestration and its impact on many sectors, from healthcare to precision manufacturing; from economic turmoil halfway around the globe to the simple fact that companies continue to find ways to do more with the same number of people (or fewer); from the expiration of the payroll-tax holiday, which has taken money out of the pockets of consumers, to widespread uncertainty about the effects of Obamacare.

Bob Nakosteen

Bob Nakosteen

Put it all together, and it adds up to a recovery that Bob Nakosteen, professor of Economics at UMass Amherst, called “surprisingly mediocre.”

Others we spoke to for this hard look at the economy and the prospects for real improvement used other words and phrases to describe the recovery (or lack thereof) to date, ranging from ‘painfully slow’ to ‘uneven’; ‘essentially jobless’ to ‘less than robust.’

That last, somewhat tongue-in-cheek offering was given by James Barrett, managing partner at Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C., who has prepared and analyzed second-quarter numbers for dozens of clients, and believes they speak to ongoing trends concerning companies in this region.

Jim Barrett

Jim Barrett

“Businesses are spinning faster than they used to, and they’re basically staying in place,” he told BusinessWest in what would be the first of several attempts to convey the opinion that businesses are working harder to merely stay at something approaching an even keel. “I haven’t talked to anyone, except in a few isolated cases, that has a June 30 year end that is hitting it out of the park. Companies are working harder, but they’re not necessarily seeing it on the bottom line.”

To be sure, there are some sources of optimism regionally, said Mary Burke, a senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, putting a surging housing market and its many ancillary benefits at the top of that list.

“The housing recovery is certainly one significant bright spot — prices are going up, people feel wealthier, they feel like things are moving in the right direction, they don’t feel stuck in their homes,” said Burke, adding that demand for housing has given the region’s construction sector its first real boost in years. “All that’s positive news, and it seems to be providing some momentum.”

Other encouraging developments include a record-busting stock market (indexes were up another 4% or more for July), long-awaited improvement in household balance sheets, and growth in some emerging business sectors, such as technology and the biosciences, she added, noting that the big question moving forward is whether these upward-arrow elements can overcome the considerable counterproductive pull of sequestration, rising interest rates, falling confidence among business owners, and other factors.

But the “$64 billion question” concerns if and when employers will begin hiring again, said Burke, noting that jobs, or the lack of them, has been the primary reason why the recovery has been defined by those aforementioned adjectives, with more discouraging news coming recently: July was the slowest hiring month since March.

“We still have a very elevated unemployment rate” of 7%, she noted. “It’s come down from the worst, but it’s still quite high.”

And it won’t be until a real, meaningful, and sustained dent is made in the jobless rate that more positive terms can be used to describe this recovery.

Getting Right Down to It

The lackluster state of the recovery is spelled out in the latest issue of MassBenchmarks, the journal of the Massachusetts economy published by the UMass Donahue Institute in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

It recaps a significant slowdown in the second quarter that was not unexpected, due to factors such as sequestration and the employment-tax hike mentioned above, but was nonetheless troubling.

Real gross domestic product in the state grew at an annual rate of 0.8%. That’s in contrast to the 1.7% GDP growth nationwide for the same quarter, and the 2.8% logged in the state in the first quarter of this year. Meanwhile, state payroll employment, which grew at an annual rate of 3% in the first quarter, stalled in the second quarter, declining by 0.1% on an annualized basis, a number that has analysts concerned.

“The recent rise in unemployment is particularly disconcerting,” wrote Alan Clayton-Matthews, MassBenchmarks senior contributing editor and associate professor of Economics and Public Policy at Northeastern University, noting that overall unemployment rose from 6.4% in March to 7% in June. “It appears that unemployment rates increased for both men and women, and those increases were concentrated among youth — those less than 25 years old, and those with less than a high-school education. However, unemployment rates also rose for those between the ages of 25 and 54, and for those with a high-school diploma and some college but less than a bachelor’s degree.”

Burke concurred. “It looks like we’re going in the wrong direction,” she noted, adding that the numbers were down in almost every metropolitan area in the state, and this consistency is, in and of itself, alarming. “For a while, it looked like Western Mass. was weaker, and Boston has been doing very well, for the most part, in this recession, so I’m really surprised that Boston had an increase in unemployment.”

Nakosteen, who also serves as the executive editor of MassBenchmarks, said that employment numbers for the Springfield metropolitan area, which includes part of Connecticut, were lower than they were a year ago — 286,000 for 2013 versus 290,000 for 2012.

“And that’s really not a good sign for a recovery,” he told BusinessWest, “because that’s been the pattern. Every month, employment is lower than it was a year ago — not by much, but enough. What these numbers tell me is that the recovery is experiencing some headwinds.”

He didn’t add the word ‘again,’ but it was certainly implied, and with good reason, because there always seems to be some impediment to real improvement, from the fiscal cliff to turmoil in a host of European countries.

And when asked to look behind the numbers and identify these headwinds, those we spoke with said federal policy moves are starting to take the toll that many predicted they would.

Indeed, sequestration is starting to have an impact on overall federal employment, said Burke, and there is mounting evidence that major defense contractors in Rhode Island and Connecticut are reducing their workforces or, at the very least, being wary about new hiring or replacing those who leave or retire.

“Growth has been quite tepid for the year, and some believe sequestration is having an impact, taking perhaps as much as a percentage point off GDP growth, according to one estimate I’ve seen,” she noted. “That is definitely having effects across the country because it affects how much money flows to the state governments from the federal government. State-government jobs have been falling in the region, and federal-level government jobs that are situated in the region have been falling as well.”

Locally, Dave Smith, president of Tell Tool in Westfield, which logs 55% to 60% of its parts-manufacturing business from the military, said company officials talked about sequestration as a business risk, and there was verbiage to that effect placed in the strategic plan. Accordingly, a flat year was projected, and that’s what has transpired.

“We haven’t seen a reduction in orders,” he explained. “I wouldn’t describe them as strong, but they’re stable.”

Elaborating, he said that, apart from a slowdown in orders for the F-35 joint strike fighter, for which Tell Tool makes several parts, sequestration hasn’t had a deep impact — yet.

And as he speculated on why, Smith said that, while military aircaft (such as those at Westover or at Barnes Municipal Airport in Westfield) are not in the air as much, they’re on the ground being serviced, which thus far has led to more orders for parts.

Overall, the manufacturing sector on the whole has been off by about 1% across the country, said Burke, noting that a big reason for this has been a decline in due in exports to spiraling economies in China and elsewhere.

As for the payroll tax increases, or the elimination of the tax holiday, Burke said there are no hard numbers available yet to quantify its impact, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that people are spending less.

“Retailers say they’re seeing consumers being stingy again, and they noticed that it started happening after the payroll-tax increase,” said Burke, noting that, while the policy change to the FICA tax represents a loss of $1,000 to $2,000 annually for most families, those amounts are enough to take a toll.

 

Hire Power

Another factor contributing to the decline in employment and sluggish second quarter is waning confidence among employers, said Burke, noting that the Business Confidence Index (BCI), as measured by Associated Industries of Mass., fell below neutral on its 100-point scale in June to 48.9 after a drop of 3.2 points from May.

June swoons are not uncommon for the BCI — it fell 8.5 points during that month a year ago — but this decline is perhaps yet another indicator that business owners are troubled by the slowdown in the first half of this year and are likely still concerned about will happen — or not happen — next.

“Confidence has been quite volatile,” she explained. “It’s always volatile, but even moreso in this recovery. There have been so many times when we might think we’re out of the woods, and then some other roadblock happens.”

Barrett agreed. “Although we’ve heard that things are bottoming or turning around,” he noted, “I don’t think people have seen enough of a turnaround to get moving. They haven’t seen the growth — and I don’t think they have the confidence yet — to start financing expected future growth long-term.”

Looking ahead, though, those we spoke with said they can find some reasons for optimism, and they don’t have to look very hard.

The housing market is certainly one of those factors, said Burke, who noted that this sector is stronger in the eastern part of the state, but things are improving in the 413 area code as well. Analysis she’s seen indicates that the market could certainly weather the 1% increase in interest rates that many are predicting.

Meanwhile, household balance sheets are improving, which puts people in a position to spend more, said Burke, noting that, while interest rates have increased somewhat, they are still at historically low levels.

Bill Sullivan, senior vice president of Commercial Lending at Holyoke-based PeoplesBank, concurred, noting that this is a time for companies to be proactive and ready for when the skies are considerably brighter.

He said the phrase ‘cautious optimism’ is quite overused and he didn’t want to contribute to that phenomenon, but he did anyway.

While doing so, he looked back to the recession of the early ’90s — which was like the current cycle in terms of how slow the recovery was — for what amounts to inspiration.

“You try to find a point in time where that recession turned around,” he said, “but to me, it just seemed like one morning, people woke up and said, ‘hey, we’re still in business. We have sales, though not at the level we like; let’s move forward.’

“I don’t know what moves that rock forward,” he went on, “but I think it starts with confidence; people are pessimistic, and they have to be, and they really have to believe it before they make a capital investment or hire employees.”

Those we spoke with said the best-case scenario is that the economy can work its way through these latest headwinds and start to pick up some speed. But there are many questions concerning when and if that will happen.

“We definitely have to get through these tax increases,” said Barrett, noting that policy changes that will impact wealthier Americans will start to be felt later this year. “And it takes a while for them to work their way through the economy; it’s the same with sequestration.”

While the impact of those steps is still taking shape, there will be another round of Congressional action to deal with matters such as the deficit and the debt ceiling, he continued, adding that anticipation about what will happen could heighten levels of uncertainty.

The key, again, is jobs, and unfortunately, recent history is showing that recoveries are becoming increasingly jobless, and most signs indicate that this trend will continue.

“We’ve been having these jobless recoveries, and there’s a lot of work going on to try and figure out why that is,” said Nakosteen. “The recession in the early ’90s, the one in the early 2000s, and this one … they’ve been not entirely jobless, but that’s the phrase that’s been attached to them. Economists don’t fully understand why that is, but jobs don’t seem to be generated as quickly as economies recover anymore.

“I’m pretty optimistic about the next two or three years,” he went on, “but I just can’t understand why we can’t get there more quickly.”

The Bottom Line

In comments to the Boston Globe made in reference to the sluggish second quarter recorded in the Bay State, Nakosteen seemed to sum up the frustration felt by many with regard to the recovery.

“I’ve never seen a report when the economy is supposed to be growing that’s so somber,” he said. “It’s so deflating in a way.”

Deflating, because even though the Great Recession cut deep and the impact was felt across the country and in every business sector, actual recovery, which has often seemed close and real, has instead proven to be slow and quite elusive.

“The kind of recession we had, a financial-crisis recession, has historically had very slow and painful recoveries,” said Nakosteen. “I’ve been surprised by just how slow and painful this one has been, even though I’ve read the history.”

George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]

Editorial

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Opinion
An Opportunity for Springfield

Administrators with the University of Massachusetts made it official last week: they’re taking a serious look at broadening their presence in downtown Springfield with what is being called a possible ‘satellite center.’

The university issued a request for proposals, one that states that it is seeking 25,000 square feet of space suitable for classrooms, faculty offices, and other uses, with the option of doubling that space at a later date. Proposals are due Sept. 3, and it’s safe to say there will be quite a few of them to consider.

That’s because there are a number of potential landing spots for such a facility, ranging from Tower Square to Union Station; from 1350 Main St. to the properties in Court Square — and all of them could use the boost that a UMass presence would provide.

There has been speculation building about UMass doing ‘something’ in downtown Springfield for years now, and a few months ago we warned that such a facility, like a casino in some respects, would not magically transform the city or even its downtown, and that expectations for how a satellite center might change the landscape needed to be kept in perspective.

That said, a UMass satellite center could be one of many momentum generators in the city’s central business district, even if the university takes just 25,000 square feet, which amounts to one or two floors in most of the office buildings and facilities mentioned above.

For starters, creation of such a facility will require a substantial build-out, which will mean construction jobs. It could also change the complexion of some of those office buildings and landmarks. For example, it would provide a major boost for a Union Station project that is progressing, but still needs a spark to generate interest from more retailers. A facility in Tower Square, meanwhile, would generate some needed foot traffic and generate some life in a landmark that is still a shell of its former self and is dominated by vacant storefronts, although the presence of Cambridge College has provided a lift. For 1350 Main St., UMass might help turn on the lights in some floors that have been dark for the better part of a decade, while at Court Square, a center could provide a solid foundation for future development.

And there are many other sites that could come into the picture, with similar opportunities for progress.

Beyond the benefits to the real-estate market, a UMass satellite would generate other benefits. It would bring young people, many of them with money to spend, into downtown Springfield, and it would introduce them to a city they might otherwise not experience.

Depending on what types of programs and classes are offered downtown, there might be more and better opportunities for students to undertake internships with Springfield-based businesses and establish relationships that could last for years or decades.

Also, a UMass presence might even bolster efforts on the part of city officials to inspire market-rate housing projects in the downtown that would provide a balance for the subsidized units that still dominate the landscape in that part of the city.

All this is speculation, and a downtown Springfield UMass facility is likely years from opening its doors. But speculation is good, as long as people keep those expectations in check.

A UMass satellite center is certainly not going to be a game changer, to borrow the phrase that so many elected officials and economic-development leaders like to use these days.

But it would help Springfield ultimately win what isn’t a game, but a very important and very necessary endeavor to change the complexion of its central business district.

Entrepreneurial Drive

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Sarat Ford Lincoln Has Been a Long-running Success Story

Jeff Sarat

Jeff Sarat says that taking risks has been a family tradition and will continue to drive their future success.

Jeff Sarat says his family’s lengthy history in the auto business — now approaching 85 years, with three generations of leadership — has been marked by what he called “calculated risk taking.”

And as he talked about manifestations of that operating philosophy, he pointed to the ceiling of the family’s Ford and Lincoln dealership on Springfield Street in Agawam, which he serves as president, and, more specifically, the chandelier that dominates it.

The ornate lighting fixture has come to symbolize what was a huge risk undertaken by his father, Jack, in 1989. As he retold a story he’s relayed often, Jeff said that his grandfather, John, who segued from farming into selling and servicing cars in 1929 and kept a firm hand on decision making within the family business, strongly opposed his son’s plans to expand the dealership across Springfield Street from where it was started.

But Jack pushed ahead with the plan anyway.

“My father had to have the steel delivered at night so my grandfather wouldn’t know,” Jeff recalled. “When the project was done, my grandfather walked in the building, saw that chandelier, and said, ‘Jack, you built a classy place.’ That was his seal of approval.”

There have been many other examples of successful risk taking over the years, from the Sarat’s family’s expansion efforts into Enfield and Northampton — with Ford dealerships operated by Jeff’s brothers, Chris and Scott, respectively — to aggressive expansion into the commercial truck market (more on that later), to recent endeavors, such as a 10,000-square-foot expansion of the Agawam dealership for a service and repair facility that is truly state-of-the-art.

And there are more on the drawing board, especially construction of a dedicated showroom for the Lincoln car line, with construction slated to begin later this year on the site of the now-closed Taylor Rental facility next door to the Agawam dealership.

Such moves represent risks, but they are becoming increasingly necessary in what is a changing, ultra-competitive auto-sales sector, said Jeff, who shares his father’s and grandfather’s entrepreneurial tendencies and drive for continual expansion.

“We’re always trying to grow the business and make it bigger and better,” he explained. “We’re consistently a top-10 dealer, but I’m not really happy with top 10 — I want to be number one.”

For this issue and its focus on auto sales, BusinessWest turns the spotlight on the Sarat family, their expanding auto group, and their plans to continue that pattern of taking calculated risks.

 

All in the Family

The stock market crash of 1929 was just a few months away when John Sarat, who loved to tinker with the cars being serviced at a local gas station when he wasn’t tending to his vegetable farm, decided to purchase his own gas station in Agawam with a partner.

That venture became increasingly focused on sales, said Jeff, noting that, as the economy went into prolonged freefall, his grandfather had to buy out his partner and somehow slug it out during the Great Depression as a sole proprietor.

He persevered, and his name was still over the door when the next generation, represented by Jack Sarat, started working at the dealership while in grade school, developing a passion for the industry in the process.

“My father never wanted to do anything else,” said Jeff. “He grew up on the lot, pulling weeds, plowing snow, cleaning off the cars … and we were raised the same way.”

The ‘we,’ in this case, are the three members of the third generation who have become involved in the family business — brothers Jeff, Chris, and Scott.

Jeff, the oldest, remembers snow days when the three were in school; before the classmates would head for the sledding hills, they would ride with their father to the dealership to plow and shovel snow, move cars, and handle myriad other assignments.

Along the way, they developed a similar passion for the business and a desire to make it a career.

“Before we built this building in 1989, my father essentially polled us,” said Jeff. “He said, ‘before I go out and spend all this money building a new building, do you guys want to get into the business?’ And we all said ‘yes.’ I was about 14 at the time.”

Today, Jeff Sarat is taking a leadership role in another round of expansion and risk taking that started with a 10,000-square-foot expansion of the service and repair facilities, that gives the Agawam dealership the room and the flexibility to service almost anything on wheels.

“We designed it with six lifts that enable us to pick up anything from a Ford Focus to a Ford school bus or a motorhome — that’s up to 72,000 pounds,” said Sarat, adding that, in response to both recognized need and trends within the industry, the new facility was designed to maximize efficiency and thus save time  and money.

Elaborating, he said the large service bay allows two technicians to work on three lifts each, which means that if a part for a car on a lift is delayed, the technician can move on to the next job on the neighboring lift and not waste time switching vehicles.

“This is unheard of in this industry,” said Sarat. “Nobody gets three bays, especially three monstrous truck bays.”

And such large bays are needed, he went on, because of the company’s growing base of commercial truck sales, which represent a whopping 50% of the dealership’s revenue. This track record for excellence in that category dates back to 1997, when Jack Sarat had an opportunity to purchase 100 heavy-duty pick-up trucks, which represented the last of Ford’s inventory for that model year. With no model changes on the way for 1998, and a more expensive truck with a smaller rebate due in 1999, Sarat’s inventory was soon in demand, and many of those who bought then have become repeat customers.

“They sold like crazy, and by selling those ’97s, we earned more allocation [future new truck allowance per dealership] than anybody ever could,” Sarat explained. “And now we have people come from all over New England because we’ve built relationships; they know we have the trucks they want, and we service them, too.

“Those buyers are a very loyal buyer,” he went on. “You start that relationship with one truck, and before you know it, within a few years, as their business grows, you’ve sold them three, four, or five trucks.”

Next on the to-do list for the company is construction of a new showroom for Lincoln, said Sarat, adding that the dedicated dealership is reflective of another trend in the industry, as carmakers are demanding new and better facilities in which to showcase their specific models.

The new, 20,000-square-foot facility should help Lincoln build brand awareness and counter not only stern foreign competition in the luxury-car category, but also a surging Cadillac, which saw a 33% increase in sales last calendar year.

Lincoln was a hugely popular luxury model decades ago, but has lost significant market share, mostly to the foreign competitors in recent years, and is looking to recapture its place at the top of that category, said Sarat.

“Lincoln is going though a bit of an identity crisis, asking, ‘what do we want to be?’” he told BusinessWest. “They’ve created some new and exciting models and taken some gambles with the Lincoln MKZ. They’ve come out with some new products, and hopefully, Lincoln can regain what it once had. But it’s going to be a tough battle.

“And the new buildings are part of that,” he went on. “You need to make investments in these facilities. The buyers are coming to expect a certain level of size, quality, and convenience, and that’s why we’re separating the two buildings, to give them a unique experience.”

 

Full Tank

As the company remodels both the dealerships in Agawam, Sarat said, it may face a quandary of sorts.

Indeed, there is speculation that the chandelier may not fit with the style and image that Ford is trying to project with its showrooms. In short, its days might be numbered.

If they are, the company will lose a small part of its identity, but there are still plenty of other examples of the calculated risk taking that have enabled this venture to survive and thrive for 85 years.

And there are more to come.

 

Elizabeth Taras can be reached at [email protected]