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Welcome to tomhill.com. We are masters at personal networking and we hope your visit to "Hill's Gallery" educates you to our skill set and some of our contacts. Tom has 26 years experience in all phases of commercial real estate. He is continuously quoted in the business pages and in all forms of media. Tom is available to help you. 203-755-HILL (4455).
As seen in every addition of the New England Real Estate Journal & Shopping Center Journal
Tom recently facilitated an IREM panel discussion at the Hawthorne Inn, Berlin, CT. Many groups in Connecticut hire Tom for his WATR radio background and his in depth knowledge of commercial real estate due to his CCIM and SIOR designations and the numerous transactions he has completed in his career.
Pictured from left: John Cafasso, CCIM; Charlotte Goldblatt, CCIM;
Tom Hill III, CCIM/SIOR; Noel Cooke, CPM and Mark O’Hagan, CCIM/RPA.
CT/W.MA Chapter Members at the Fall 2007 Quarterly Meeting
Tom networking with Connecticut's "best" SIOR office and industrial brokers.
Sandi & Tom Hill, and Mayor of Torrington, Ryan Bingham, at the Sock Hop Fundraiser in Litchfield, CT.
Tom Hill III, broker for the Naugatuck Industrial Park, Eileen Bronko and Naugatuck Mayor Mike Bronko.
March 29, 2007 – STDBOnline Training
Top: Alan Bolduc, Wayne D’Amico, CCIM, Tamara Peterson, Rich Guralnick, CCIM, Fred Petrella, CCIM, Steve Lopes, Bryan Atherton. Bottom: Tom Hill, CCIM/SIOR and Charlotte Goldblatt, CCIM – Chapter President
LEFT: TOM IS HAPPY AFTER FINISHING HIS 5TH
SANDY BEACH SPRINT TRIATHLON ON AUGUST 3, 2007.RIGHT: TOM PLACED 2ND IN HIS AGE GROUP AT
THE NORTHFIELD 10K ON AUGUST 18, 2006.
An IREM panel discussion and meeting was held on May 17th, in Meriden.
Pictured from left: Attorney Arthur Greenblatt, VestA Corporation; Tom Hill III, CCIM/SIOR; Noel Cooke, CPM, Phoenix Management Corporation and Peter Parrotta, CPM, of Parrotta Management.
Coldwell Banker Commercial brokers met at Tom Hill’s house to discuss opportunities and the opening of 2 new Coldwell Banker Commercial offices which are, Westchester and Fairfield County, and also discussed their participation at ICSC in NYC, as Coldwell Banker Commercial National will have a booth at the event.
The Naugatuck Chamber recently held a meeting at the Waterbury Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Waterbury, with guest speaker Alex Conroy, who discussed the development of Renaissance Place in Downtown Naugatuck, a project of the Conroy Development Company. Conroy's plan is to create a mixed-use redevelopment of downtown Naugatuck incorporating historic buildings and parks into a live/work/play environment with a residential population, street level retail, restaurants, entertainment, business, and other compatible uses.
For more information, please go to: http://www.naugatuckrenaissanceplace.com/
Pictured from left to right: Dave Prendergast; Anthony Edwards; Jack Lynch, CCIM, Tom Hill III, CCIM/SIOR, Alex Conroy and Mayor Ron SanAngelo.
Greenway Project in Waterbury
With the clean up of the Naugatuck River over the past several years, Waterbury community efforts are underway up and down the river to reconnect with this resource for both resource protection and recreational purposes. A greenway is planned for Waterbury and will span the length of the Naugatuck River which is 7.1 miles.
Pictured from Left to Right: James Sequin, City Planner; Sam Gold; Dan Baroody, Wetlands Coordinator; Kathy Macnamara; Tom Hill III, CCIM/SIOR, Mayor Michael Jarjura and Todd Montello, WDC.
Northwest Connecticut Property Tour
PHOTO OF: Vance Taylor; Martin Smith, CBC Scalzo-Tom Hill Group; Joann Ryan from the NW Chamber; Christina Emery, Economic Development of Torrington; Jack Lynch, CCIM; Melissa Pasquale from CERC.
Tom was a guest speaker at the recent Rotary Club meeting in Southbury. If you’d like to book Tom for a future speaking engagement, please call Tom Hill @ 203-575-0052 x12.
Jim DeRienzo and Tom Hill III, CCIM/SIOR met with the Governor Rell at a fundraiser for Mayor Ron SanAngelo, who recently won a re-election in Naugatuck. Jim, who owns the Spirit Shop, is a sponsor of the tomhill.com. Tom is active in Naugatuck, as he is the official broker of the Naugatuck Industrial Park and has 5 lots for sale in Park “B” as well as some existing building opportunities.
Mayor Michael Jarjura and "Tour of Connecticut" Bike Race
Tom was involved with the NW Tourism Bureau to bring thousands of people to Downtown Waterbury.
OUT SELLING TORRINGTON
Coldwell Banker Commercial Scalzo-Tom Hill Group and Lighthouse Partners, hosted a “Spring Into Business” event in Downtown Torrington on May 6th. This event was designed to promote and attract potential business to the downtown Torrington area, via a walking tour, showcasing available office space, newly renovated apartments, and create awareness of existing businesses and growth in the downtown area as well as attract new businesses and streamline the downtown efforts of revitalization.
Pictured above: Seated from left to right: Muff Maskovsky, Tom Hill III, CCIM/SIOR and Mayor Owen Quinn. Standing from left to right: Joann Ryan, Doug Rose, Jack Lynch, Matt Lynch, Jennifer Amory and James Patrick.
Tom
Hill III is the Official Broker for the Naugatuck Industrial Park
Tom continues to work with all of the economic development commissions and corporations to assist them in economic growth, in both consulting and real estate brokerage.
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Tom Hill III, CCIM/SIOR and Jack Lynch, CCIM @ ICSC in Providence, RI.
Brass City's Most Bullish Booster
4/17/2006
By: Bonnie Blake/Business New Haven
Tom Hill, CCIM, SIOR, vice president of Coldwell Banker Commercial Scalzo-Tom Hill Group in Waterbury, may be the best-known Realtor in Connecticut.
What makes him so successful, Hill says, is that he is "good at closing the deal." He also excels at self-promotion, with an extensive Web site(www.tomhill.com) and his own radio show on Friday mornings on Waterbury's WATR (1320 AM). Hill says it is "important to promote yourself in this business as there is so much competition."
Hill has more than 25 years of experience in commercial real estate, the last two and a half with Coldwell Banker Commercial. He covers greater Waterbury down through and including the lower Naugatuck River Valley, as well as east to Southington and west to Southbury/Newtown.
He has also been on the radio for two decades. On his radio show, Hill is often joined by in-studio guests such as community leaders, and fields questions from dozens of callers regarding real estate, community issues, or from "people who just want to vent."
Hill waxes enthusiastic about the future of the Brass City and beyond. He notes new developments including home-improvement giant Lowe's, which plans to build a 140,000-square-foot store with 535 parking spaces on an 18-acre parcel between Progress Lane and Captain Neville Drive near I-84. The plans also call for a restaurant on site.
In addition, Target Corp. is planning to build a store on the former Bradlees site at 300 Chase Parkway; and CVS has acquired a seven-acre parcel on West Main Street for construction of a new store and medical offices.
"Finally, Fairfield County growth is moving up Route 8," observes Hill. Waterbury and surrounding towns are even more affordable than those in the lower Naugatuck Valley. So developers looking for value are moving further upriver. As an example, Hill points to Electric Cable Compounds Inc., which will relocate its Seymour operations to 40,000 square feet in Naugatuck - a deal Hill put together with Steve Miller of New Haven's Levey, Miller & Maretz.
Naugatuck, Hill says, is doing particularly well. Renaissance Place, a four-phase mixed-use commercial project on 60 acres downtown, is being developed by Fairfield-based Conroy Development and is reported to be the first energy-independent project in America.
In addition, 100,000 square of retail space will be developed on the site of the old FMP factory.
At the Naugatuck Industrial Park, for which Hill is the sole broker, only five lots remain. "I just sold two," he reports, "and have offers on the remaining three."
Hill exudes tremendous optimism about the Brass City's future. He points to the recently completed $30 million renovation and restoration of the historic 1920 Palace Theater. A production of Les Miserables recently played there, and the "place was packed with 2,800 people," says Hill. "Every time there is an event at the Palace, the restaurants downtown are jammed."
Other downtown anchors include the Waterbury campus of the University of Connecticut and the Arts Magnet School. The city is also experiencing great demand for space for medical facilities adjacent to Waterbury Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital.
The Main Street Waterbury program, a grassroots community organization focused on revitalizing downtown and preserving historic sites, has also been instrumental in improving the business climate in Waterbury, says Hill.
The population of Waterbury grew by .08 percent (from 107,271 to 108,130) from 2000 to 2003, representing the largest growth rate in the Naugatuck Valley Corridor (NVC), which had been shedding population for years. However, the city also posted the highest level of unemployment at 8.02 percent, compared to 5.8 in the NVC and 4.9 percent statewide. Hill cautions that Waterbury is the only major city in the area and home to most of the poor and homeless.
As proof of how well Waterbury is doing, Hill points to the fact that the median sales price of homes in Waterbury rose 21 percent in 2005 to $144,900 - a run-up second only to Stamford. At that price point, he adds, housing in Waterbury is "still a great value in comparison with the rest of the state."
"Waterbury," says Hill, "is the gateway to Litchfield County - playground for New Yorkers. We have four colleges, great connections to the rest of the state on Route 8 and Interstate 84, and a good quality of life."
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Market chosen for retail revival Former Everybody's picked for 3-building plaza for South End
Thursday, January 20, 2005
By David A. Smith
Copyright © 2005 Republican-American
WATERBURY -- A Waterbury developer wants to build a 28,800-square-foot retail plaza on the site of a former supermarket in the city's beleaguered South End.
Peter A. Francisco's proposal for Platt's Mill Plaza calls for investing about $2 million in a three-building retail complex at 1200 South Main St., a 4-acre site that includes the former Everybody's Market. The site lies about a mile south of downtown Waterbury and just south of Harvester Road.
"The South End needs something down there, and I'm willing to take a shot, a calculated shot," said Francisco, managing member of Waterbury-based P.A. Francisco Construction and Fran Environmental, a lead and asbestos removal firm.
Initial plans call for demolishing the former market, then constructing a 22,800-square-foot building set on the rear of the property and two smaller buildings -- 2,000 square feet and 4,000 square feet, respectively -- closer to South Main Street. Francisco enlisted Tom Hill III, a Waterbury-based Realtor with Coldwell Banker Commercial's Scalzo-Tom Hill Group, to market the property to users such as an auto parts store, a pharmacy, a discount store, Hispanic-owned businesses and other prospective tenants.
"As soon as we have a couple of tenants signed up ... I'd probably start construction," Francisco said.
His proposed investment comes amid other recent South End activity. Hometown Auto Retailers Inc. is moving its headquarters and other corporate operations into the company's former Shaker's Chrysler/Jeep dealership at 1131 South Main St., while a Torrington businessman plans to buy and renovate the former Grodel Inc. building at 1258 South Main St., just south of the Francisco's proposed development.
Clifford W. Burrell, who owns AVI International Inc. in Torrington, said he and his partners have signed a lease with an option to buy the roughly 14,000-square-foot building that housed Grodel, now a defunct screw machine shop. The group plans to develop what they call the Motor Sports Technology Complex.
"We are looking to basically become an incubator for small companies that are involved in supporting motor sports," Burrell said. The property needs environmental remediation, but he said the group plans to tackle that work.
"It's either that or the property never gets cleaned up," Burrell said. "We figured we'd grab this bull by the horns and see what we can do."
Francisco pointed to additional South End investments in recent years, such as construction of The Home Depot store and the Storage America complex off Bank Street and the June 2003 acquisition of the former Anamet Industrial Inc. complex for $1.45 million by a California businessman. Additionally, Yankee Gas Services Co. is investing $100 million in a new storage facility off Eagle Street.
"There's quite a bit of activity," he said. "I call the South End the diamond in the rough. With all of us pushing together, we could turn that end of town around."
Francisco said his family has owned the former Everybody's Market property for about six years. The nearly 21,000-square-foot building has been vacant for several years.
The market opened in 1956 as the largest store of its kind in the city, with parking for 200 cars, according to Republican-American archives. It closed in 1992, and two successors -- Food World and the SouthSide Supermarket -- lasted only months on the South Main Street site before closing.
The family also owns the former Diamond Ginger Ale building; built the South End Express Car Wash on South Main Street; developed River View condominiums during the 1980s, and built the Francisco Circle residential development off Sylvan Avenue in the late 1990s. Francisco is also managing member of Inner City Holdings, a limited liability company that is investing $500,000 to $600,000 renovating and building residential housing off River Street, he said.
"We've owned a number of properties down there over the years," he said. "We want to do something that's going to brighten up the area, that's going to spur other people to invest."
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