The long-vacant Alfredo’s Riverside Restaurant, hard by Route 9 South and in the shadow of the Arrigoni Bridge, is being reborn as apartments — part of a developer’s broader effort to breathe new life into neglected city properties. The brick building at 141 Bridge St., the last one on the dead-end street, is expected to be ready for leasing applications by Nov. 1, according to developer Dominick DeMartino. The Bridge Street project is one of a half dozen neglected buildings in the city that DeMartino, who has been in the development business for more than three decades, bought during and after the pandemic. The city helped secure $5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding and state Department of Economic and Community Development grants to assist with the rehabilitation projects, DeMartino said. Middletown Mayor Gene Nocera said Thursday that DeMartino goes the extra mile on restoration projects and has an eye for quality that will last decades.
Former Route 9 eyesore in Middletown reborn as apartments
