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 COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE FOR SALE AND LEASE
CITY
WESTFIELD
WEST SPRINGFIELD
Hot Oven
ADDRESS
34 Mulberry St
70 Court Street Westfield
84 Myron St.
52-54 Wayside Avenue
63 Myron St.
103 Myron Street
63 Myron Street
SIZE
4,000+
1,700 sq.ft.
14,476 +/- sq. ft.
4,280 sq./ft
13,300 sq. ft.
1630 to 5600
5000 +/-
PRICE
$250,000
$14-$16/ sq. ft.
Call
$999,999
$12.00
$16.75
AGENCY / AGENT / PHONE / EMAIL
Dot Lortie Realty, a Landmark Co.
Dot Lortie/[email protected] (413) 783-0195.
The Macmillan Group; Walter Kroll/walter@macmillang. com; (413)-736-7338
Salamon Realty / Mitch Salamon
(413) 736-5958 / [email protected]
Salamon Realty / Mitch Salamon
(413) 736-5958 / [email protected]
Salamon Realty / Mitch Salamon
(413) 736-5958 / [email protected]
Salamon Realty / Mitch Salamon
(413) 736-5958 / [email protected]
Salamon Realty / Mitch Salamon
(413) 736-5958 / [email protected]
DESCRIPTION
Prime totally renovated in 2014. Comm A building with 9 offices leased to professionals. Reception room, conference room, kitchen, and good parking. Near MGM, all downtown amenities and highway access.
Medical or professional office spaces available. 2 story medical office building. Secure-access building, wheelchair access,ample parking, and extremely close-by to Nobel Hospital make the spaces appealing with medical,dental,or therapists. Also ideal for chiropractor,physical therapists,or attorneys.Common areas and hallways nicely finished.Landlord will build to suit for the right tenant. Conveniently located across from the YMCA and the Main Street rotary.
Newly remodeled 14,476 sq. ft. prime office building featuring off-St. parking with canopied entrances, new interior build-outs and convenient accessibility just off Route 5 near junctions of I-90, I-91, I-291, Rt. 5, and Rt. 20; leasing spaces ranging in size from 14,476 sq. ft., 11,340 sq. ft., 9,886 sq. ft., 5,000 sq. ft., 3,205 sq. ft.
Multi-tenanted building located just off Route 5 near junctions of 90-91-291-5-20 in a very desirable location; One suite available to Lease 4,280 +/- sqft located at the front of the building.
13,300 sq. ft. building; subdivided into smaller-unit rentals; starting from approximately 1,300 sq. ft.; enjoy operating your own business and collect rental income from unused balance; prime location just off Route 5 by I-291, I-90, and I-91
For Lease in multi-tenanted flex building just off Rt. 5; for more information, please email msalamon@ salamonrealty.com
              HVAC and Electric included
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reach price-wise, but then, there was some of that serendipity.
“I remember saying to someone, ‘if I could open up where Delaney’s was, I would do it in a heartbeat,’” she told BusinessWest. “It was wishful thinking, but two days later I got a phone call, and someone said, ‘hey, we have the keys, would you like to go see it?’
“We came to see it a few days after we opened Allen Street, and we thought, ‘this is beyond our reach,’” she continued. “But our brand repu- tation preceded us, and the landlord was extremely willing to work with us because he wanted us here. And here we are.”
In addition to those two locations, the company still operates the Cookie Cart, which has been parked at a num- ber of area colleges, businesses, and even private residences for birthday parties and anniversaries, and also has a kiosk at Bradley International Airport, which has been idled by the pandemic — the one aspect of the venture to be slowed by COVID-19.
As BusinessWest talked with Sheila at the downtown location on a Thursday afternoon a few weeks before Christ- mas, customers steadily filed into the
to not only get used cars but cope with the fluctuations in that market — from when the bottom dropped out back in the spring to when prices soared dur- ing the summer, to the state of relative uncertainty that exists now.
Peter Wirth agreed that it’s been a bumpy road when it comes to used cars — for a time, he had one employee who did nothing else but try to find vehicles to buy — but said some stabil- ity has returned.
“We have roughly 75 used cars in stock,” he noted. “It took us a while to catch up on inventory, just because
store. At one point, the line became long enough that she hit pause to go help her employee behind the counter.
It has been like this pretty much since the location opened, she said, adding that the Hot Oven brand — fea- turing more than 100 flavors, including staples like Dark Chocolate + Seal Salt Chip, Boozy Cake Batter Sugar, and Coquito Snookerdoodle — has always been popular and sought out by those in this market and others residing well outside it.
And the pandemic has made it even more popular, she believes, theoriz- ing that the cookies provide a measure of comfort, a measure of normal, at a time when people are craving both.
Indeed, when asked how the down- town was doing since opening, she started with “wow,” paused for a sec- ond, and put it in perspective.
“My husband and I had a logistical meeting before we opened both the shops,” she recalled. “And the conver- sation went something like this: ‘we’re moving two blocks over to a new loca- tion and new customer base, and we’re moving uptown to another location; it’s going to take a while for people to catch on that we’re here.’
sales were really good on pre-owned cars all year, so while we kept buying more cars, we sold them right away. It’s taken us until now to find more cars so we replenish supplies. And it’s not just about buying cars — you want be selective and find the right cars.”
Looking ahead ... well, while people can do that, it’s difficult given how many unknowns dominate the conver- sation, regarding everything from pan- demic spikes to vaccines to new- and used-car inventories.
“The vaccine is a positive, people not wanting to depend on public trans-
“Nope ... that hasn’t been the case,” she went on. “Business down here for us has been double or triple what we’re doing two blocks over. And uptown is a beast of a shop — we sell out every day.”
Looking ahead, Sheila said the company is looking forward to the day when the kiosk at Bradley can open and become a strong source of revenue that can finance future expansion — perhaps into Worcester, Boston, and other cities. And there has long been talk of franchising this brand and tak- ing it well beyond its Western Mass. roots.
For the immediate future, though, the two have their hands full with the two new locations and the brisk busi- ness they are witnessing.
There have not been too many business-expansion stories during this pandemic, but this is certainly one of them.
Call it a feel-good story if you like, but this is also, and especially, a taste- good story. And a very intriguing one at that. u
George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]
portation or ride-sharing is a positive, and the incentives and low interest rates are positives,” Cosenzi said. “But we can’t be in denial that there is still a virus out there and people are being more cautious than ever before.”
But while question marks remain for the year ahead, the consensus is that 2020 was, overall, not as bad as it could have been, and that a sense of normal — if perhaps a new normal — has returned. u
George O’Brien can be reached at [email protected]
The two partners eventually went back to their storefront at the behest of customers, but when they did, it was late February, just before the pandemic arrived and a wave of restrictions on small businesses like this one went into effect.
“My husband and I were thinking, ‘we should probably close and col-
lect unemployment, because this is going to be bad,’” she recalled, adding that, instead of shutting down, they decided to hang in — mostly due to the strong loyalty displayed by long-time customers.
That decision to persevere became just the first of many watershed moments over the past nine months or so. The company has since opened two new locations — one in Sixteen Acres at the Bicentennial Plaza (that’s the ‘uptown’ location) and then another
(a replacement for the old site) further south on Main Street in Springfield,
in a location formerly, and briefly, occupied by a Delaney’s Market. Both opened just last month.
Sheila knew about the downtown location and had her eye on it — sort of. She had long thought it out of her
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levels have “balanced out” at her deal- erships, and there are now adequate supplies for what she hopes will be a solid end-of-year run.
As for what has been a crazy year for the used-car market, where at times vehicles were difficult if not impossible to find and prices skyrocketed, some normalcy is returning to that realm as well.
“As quickly as it went up, the market is perhaps just as quickly coming back down,” said Pion, adding that, overall, it’s been ultra-challenging for dealers
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