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Commercial Real Estate
A Blast from the Past
Springfield’s Historic
Trolley Barn Finds a
New Life
Springfield’s Trolley Barn, the property at the corner of Main and Carew streets, has had an important place in the city’s history since it opened back in 1897. It was long home to the Springfield Street Railway Co. and, later, Peter Pan’s Coach Builders operation. Today, it has a new life as home to J.D. Rivet, a roofing and sheet- metal company, thus ensuring that this link to the past will have a place in the city’s future.
went about looking for a new home to replace the one on Page
Boulevard in Springfield, they had a lot of boxes that needed to be checked.
Chief among them was — and is — location, said Trask, the compa- ny’s president, adding that several crews hit the road for jobs each day,
At top, the Trolley Barn
sign is joined
by others announcing the newest owners. Above, past and present come together in the second-floor conference room. At left, from left, Robert Ostrader, Sean Gouvin, and Jim Trask in the new first-floor conference room.
By George O’Brien
Jim Trask says the search took the better part of four years. That’s because, as he and other members of the leadership team at JD Rivet & Co. Inc., a roofing and sheet-metal company,
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