In Enfield, 307 apartments, 169 townhouses pitched for former MassMutual complex
ENFIELD, Conn. — The new owner of MassMutual’s former campus off Interstate 91 has proposed four new buildings with a total of 307 apartments and 169 townhouses.
The office park’s day care center and parking garage would be reused, and owner real estate developer Michael Massimino also is proposing a community/fitness center with a pool, according to plans and artist conceptions on file with the town. The office buildings would be demolished.
The apartments would be a mix of studios, one and two-bedroom units.
The Enfield Planning and Zoning Commission will get its first look at the conceptual plan for 100 Bright Meadow Blvd. on Thursday. The meeting is at Town Hall at 820 Enfield St.
MassMutual's open house at its Connecticut campus at 100 Bright Meadow Road in Enfield in 2014. (MARK M. MURRAY / THE REPUBLICAN, File)Staff-Shot
Massimino bought the 66-acre , half-million-square-foot complex overlooking the interstate from MassMutual in May for just shy of $4 million.
The insurance giant had the complex on the market for six years after selling off the retirement-planning business it had housed there and consolidating its workforce at its headquarters on State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Massimino owns a number of disused office complexes around Connecticut, including a Stamford building that was once the headquarters of the WWE.
In 2014, MassMutual unveiled a $38 million renovation at its Enfield campus. (MARK M. MURRAY / THE REPUBLICAN, File)
A previous applicant had gone to the town with plans to build a sports complex on the property. Those plans were abandoned.
MassMutual unveiled more than $38 million in renovations at the Enfield campus in 2014. It moved into the Enfield offices in 2004 after buying it from Phoenix Home Life Insurance Co. for $27.5 million.
The Brightmeadow campus has enough space for 2,200 employees in three buildings. A sales brochure says the infrastructure would support a fourth building. The 5,000-square-foot data center could be expanded to 20,000 square feet to accommodate high-tech uses, the sales brochure says.
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