Bridgeport, CT The Bridgeport Rescue Mission has purchased the former Astoria Park Nursing Home at 725 Park Ave., for $2.15 million, according to Jon Angel, president of Angel Commercial, LLC. They will use this location for their new community care center. Baldwin Pearson & Company Inc. represented the Bridgeport Rescue Mission.

“Bridgeport Rescue Mission has the vision to renovate this building to be the home of a care center which will enable us to expand our capacity to meet the basic human needs of the hungry, homeless and addicted,” said executive director, Terry Wilcox. “The honest and professional services of Angel Commercial made the largest purchase in BRM’s history, also the smoothest.”

Founded in 1993, the Bridgeport Rescue Mission provides food, shelter, clothing, education, job training and counseling for the urban poor and addicted of coastal Fairfield County.

725 Park Ave. is a 61,344 s/f five-story building on 1.29 acres located minutes from I-95 (Exit 27) and Rte. 8 (Exit 1). 

“We are pleased that this building will be repurposed to help those in need,” said Angel, who represented the seller, Laureate Astoria, LLC. “It is an expansive facility and should make a huge difference to the surrounding community.”