The real estate giant, which controls hundreds of millions of dollars worth of downtown office space, bought an abandoned building at 25 Cornwall St., in the city’s Blue Hills neighborhood for $175,000. With the purchase, Shelbourne is looking to help first-time Hartford home buyers, a company official said. Shelbourne enlisted Lifecare Designs Inc., a Hartford architectural firm, to design a 12-lot subdivision of single-family homes on the 1.1 acres at 25 Cornwall St. The City Planning and Zoning Commission held a hearing on the application Sept. 28 and continued the hearing on Oct. 12. The hearing deadline is Nov. 2.
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