The development team is composed of industry veterans including Framingham, Massachusetts-based Grossman Development Group, Charter Realty Principal Daniel M. Zelson and Jason C. Hess, a veteran real estate attorney with New York-based mixed-use developer Leyland Alliance. Collectively, the partners have helped complete millions of square feet of ground-up development and redevelopment worth more than $1.5 billion, according to the team’s RFP response. East Hartford paid $4.5 million to claim the 22-acre Silver Lane retail plaza this spring by eminent domain. Officials said three deteriorating buildings on the property were going increasingly vacant. The town claimed the property with plans to demolish the vacant buildings and find a developer to put it back into productive use. Responses to the town’s request-for-proposals were due last week. The Grossman/Zelson/Hess team was the only respondent.
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