Development Associates continues construction at 140-150 Padgette St., Chicopee at Westover Airpark Business Center

Development Associates continue construction at Padgette Street at Westover Airpark Business Center. The development will consist of two modern, industrial buildings located with easy highway access totaling 72,000 s/f. The buildings are designed for office/warehouse/flex space possibilities ranging from 4,000 - 30,000 s/f. Westover Airpark Business Center features all of the amenities that companies are looking for: 25 x 40 column spacing, 26' clear high ceilings, and sprinklers. The buildings are serviced with docks and/or drive-in doors and are benefited by a large combined truck access providing a wide turning radius. The buildings' exterior has a combination of insulated steel siding and split faced decorative block as well as a 50-year standing seam metal roof to ensure the buildings' durability. According to Ken Vincunas, general manager of Development Associates, "This project offers attractive high quality space to smaller businesses who would like to have an industrial park location with great highway access and proximity to Westover Airport. Small free standing buildings are hard to find and expensive to build. These flex buildings offer key features that are rare in spaces as small as 4,000 s/f such as both dock and drive-in door access and clear height over 25 ft." Another valuable feature of this new project is the finish-to-suit interior, which gives a business the opportunity to design a specialized floor plan that may require additional plumbing, power, HVAC or other unique features. In addition, with the shell and main utilities in place, a tenant can move into a custom space in about 90 days, shaving several months off the typical construction period. Westover Airpark Business Center represents Development Associates 10th project to be developed at Westover and their 15th building in Chicopee. Development Associates specializes in commercial and industrial real estate development, brokerage and management offering build to suit and design build services to local, regional and national clients throughout New England leasing over 1.3 million s/f of spaces ranging from 2,000 - 189,000 s/f.