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The Burnside Co Mill 87 Church Street East Hartford CT -
A 70,000 Sq Ft Historic Commercial Building with a diverse mix of tenants. Message us about leasing options.

Follow along as we reactivate the hydro electric power plant.

Ask us the awkward question.What does it cost. What is included. What is the term. What is wrong with the building. What...
10/30/2026

Ask us the awkward question.

What does it cost. What is included. What is the term. What is wrong with the building. What happens in a year if the business changes shape and the space no longer fits it.

None of those are answered in a caption, and none of them should be. A number printed on a page is wrong for most of the people reading it, and a list of what is open changes faster than a post does.

So the whole thing routes to one place: a person, a phone, and a walkthrough if you want one. Call (860) 451-4314 and ask the difficult one first.

A business with a season needs two rooms, not one: somewhere to work, and somewhere for everything to live when the seas...
10/30/2026

A business with a season needs two rooms, not one: somewhere to work, and somewhere for everything to live when the season is over.

Equipment in January. Event stock between bookings. A food business between markets. That is not storage in the abstract — it is weight on a floor, a truck backing to a dock, and access at the hour you are actually loading.

The alternative is a unit across town and a second trip every time you need something, which is how a slow month turns into an expensive one.

What does your off-season look like right now? (860) 451-4314

We would rather tell you a space is wrong for you than sign you into it.That sounds like a sales line, so here is what i...
10/29/2026

We would rather tell you a space is wrong for you than sign you into it.

That sounds like a sales line, so here is what it looks like in practice. If the work needs something the building does not have, if the ceiling is too low for what you build, if the hours you need do not match how the building runs — the answer is no, and it is better heard on a walkthrough than in month three.

What the building does have is written plainly: a dock at grade, a freight elevator, twenty-four hour access, parking, a permitted commercial kitchen, and a river out back.

What would make you walk away from a space? (860) 451-4314

There is a sentence every business owner who works from home has said: "excuse the mess."A customer arrives and the kitc...
10/29/2026

There is a sentence every business owner who works from home has said: "excuse the mess."

A customer arrives and the kitchen table is the office, the hallway is the stockroom, and the garage is doing something the neighbours have opinions about. The work is fine. The presentation is a running apology.

A room with a door changes that in a day. Customers come to an address, park in a lot, and see a business instead of somebody's house. The mess stays behind the door where it belongs.

What would you stop apologising for? (860) 451-4314

Four things are worth more than square footage, and none of them appear in a listing photo.Can a truck reach the door at...
10/28/2026

Four things are worth more than square footage, and none of them appear in a listing photo.

Can a truck reach the door at grade, without a ramp or a lift? Can you work at the hour your work actually happens, or does the building decide that for you? Will the floor take what you are putting on it? And can you grow without moving out?

This building answers those with a dock at grade, twenty-four hour access, floors laid for machinery, and rooms that combine and split as tenants change shape.

Every one of them is easier to judge standing in the space than reading about it.

Which of the four is missing where you are today? (860) 451-4314

A storage unit holds things. It does not let you do anything with them.The difference is a door you can work behind: hou...
10/28/2026

A storage unit holds things. It does not let you do anything with them.

The difference is a door you can work behind: hours that are yours, a floor that takes the weight, daylight to work by, and a dock when something large arrives. You stop paying to keep material in one place and driving to another place to use it.

The smallest space here is a single room. The largest is a production floor. Somewhere between them is the size where a business stops storing its work and starts doing it.

How many trips a week do you make to your own stock? (860) 451-4314

Two businesses sharing one unit is more common than most people expect, and it works better in a building where the wall...
10/27/2026

Two businesses sharing one unit is more common than most people expect, and it works better in a building where the walls can move.

Sometimes it is a maker and a seller. Sometimes it is two trades splitting a bench and a van. Sometimes it is one person's studio and another's storage, on terms that would never survive a building made of identical rectangles.

In a mill from the 1800s, units combine and split as tenants change shape, so the arrangement can change without anybody moving out. Same address, same dock, same neighbours.

Is there someone you already share a truck with? (860) 451-4314

When a piece is finished, it is not done. It has to stand somewhere until it is collected.That is the space nobody plans...
10/27/2026

When a piece is finished, it is not done. It has to stand somewhere until it is collected.

That is the space nobody plans for. A cabinet, a machine, a sign, a run of anything built to order: each one needs a floor that will take its weight, room to walk around it, and a way out that does not involve four people and a staircase. A dock at grade and a freight elevator exist for exactly that moment.

Businesses that build to order usually have the bench figured out. The staging is what turns a workshop back into a hallway.

Where does your finished work wait? (860) 451-4314

A repair business runs on two piles: the thing being worked on, and the thing waiting for a part.The second pile is the ...
10/26/2026

A repair business runs on two piles: the thing being worked on, and the thing waiting for a part.

The second pile is the one that costs you. It sits for a week, it cannot be in the way of the bench, and it cannot live in the van, because the van is out on calls. A room with a door, a floor that takes weight and a dock at grade for the part when it lands settles all three at once.

The same room takes a customer's drop-off in the morning and holds it until they can come back — a calmer conversation than "leave it in the driveway".

What is waiting on a part at your shop this week? (860) 451-4314

Some businesses do their best work when the rest of the world has gone home.A rehearsal, a class, a recording session, a...
10/26/2026

Some businesses do their best work when the rest of the world has gone home.

A rehearsal, a class, a recording session, a second shift at the bench — none of that fits a building that locks at six. It fits a building where access is twenty-four hours, where the key is yours, and where nobody is waiting to book the same room behind you.

That is most of what "the hours are yours" means in practice: not a favour granted on a calendar, and not a weekly negotiation, but the ordinary way the building runs.

What hours does your work actually keep? (860) 451-4314

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87 Church Street
East Hartford, CT
06108

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