Galaxy Development completes shopping center in Southington

Galaxy Development of Auburn has recently completed another new shopping center on Queen St. The project is located at one of the busiest signalized intersections in the Queen St. trade area immediately adjacent to Exit 32 off I-84. The property consists of over 3 acres on the corner of Loper St. and Queen St. Panera Bread opened a new 4,200 s/f end cap store with drive thru in February and other tenants, Webster Bank, Sprint and Urgent Care are also now open and off to terrific starts. The project was engineered and designed by Patrick Doherty of MidPoint Engineering in Auburn, Mass. and constructed by Orlando Annulli & Sons, Inc. of Manchester, Conn. Architectural services were provided by Russell and Dawson, LLC of East Hartford, Conn. Attorney Susan Hays of Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C. of Hartford, Conn. represented Galaxy Development. The new Panera store is operated by Howley Bread and it represents the third store Galaxy has completed for Panera. Harmon Lewis of National Commercial Brokers represented the tenant. There is one small unit of 1,685 s/f left to lease. This new center was the third plaza completed by Galaxy over the last 12 months which together totaled over 130,000 s/f of retail space for tenants such as Verizon, Price Chopper, Family Dollar, Advance Auto, Planet Fitness, Sweet Kiwi Frozen Yogurt, Sprint, Urgent Care and Panera Bread. Other new projects fully permitted and preparing to start construction this year are located in Sutton, Webster and Framingham, Mass. consisting of another 270,000 s/f.