A8 Friday, March 3, 2023
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Owners renovating former W. Main pharmacy building
Brady From A1
“80 for Brady” stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sally Field and Rita Moreno, who are all near or over the age of 80.
By Christian Metzger Record-Journal staff
“When they offered to take us to see this movie, I said ‘absolutely!’ I used to live in Massachusetts and I am a huge Tom Brady fan,” said Alice Zito, a resident of Cedar Mountain Commons. Executive directors of each of the assisted living communities rented out an entire AMC Plainville theater for residents to laugh, cheer, cry and enjoy the movie with popcorn and cold drinks. “We are thankful for the collaboration. All four of our assisted living communities came together to do something normal, post-COVID. The residents were excited
Residents of Mulberry Gardens at “80 for Brady.” Contributed photo
message: “to keep going no and so were the staff,” said Denise Lebrocquy, executive matter what the challenges director, Cedar Mountain are.” Commons. “Our residents live this every Lori Toombs, regional direc- day – showing us that no tor of assisted living, Hartmatter what ails them, they ford HealthCare, said “80 for are still thriving,” Brady” shared a positive said Toombs.
SOUTHINGTON — Plantsville realtors aim to bring new residents and business to the downtown area with the recent refurbishment of 7 W. Main St. Owners are currently in talks with several prospective tenants for the space and expect it to be filled sometime this summer. Plantsville-based Precision Realty bought the building in March of last year and began renovations in late January. There will be four apartments on the second floor and a new retail business space on the ground floor. Constructed in 1890, the building sits prominently
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on the corner of West Main and Main streets. Co-owned by cousins Chester and James Potrepka, the property housed Plantsville Pharmacy for more than 60 years — having been originally purchased back in 1958. After the pharmacy closed in December of 2018, the building remained vacant until recently. With limited parking available in the area, the group seeks to fill it with a retail or a professional services space. They want to keep in conversation with the other businesses in downtown Plantsville, to bring more foot traffic along that section of town along with the restaurant spaces. “My partner and I own five buildings, right in that downtown Plantsville area,” said Michael Dziedzic, a broker with Precision Realty and a Southington resident. “We’re very strategic about who we kind of wanted to bring in as tenants. And our longterm goal for that area is to kind of extend people who come down and park in Plantsville to now continue to walk through at least where the pharmacy building was.” Dziedzic’s aim is to draw visitors in to explore the whole of Plantsville’s downtown to benefit all the businesses along that stretch of road. “So your foot traffic can start from the trail area in the summertime, past the coffee shop, whatever restaurant eventually goes back into Zingarella's, and you kind of bring the foot traffic back. Eventually you get the foot traffic turned to South Main Street to those buildings, and then now you have a bit of a renaissance of downtown Plantsville,” Dziedzic said. See Renovation, A11