GJS BROKERS SALE OF 184-196 CHAPEL STREET, NEW HAVEN

John E. Kozloski, Vice President of George J. Smith & Son Commercial & Investment Real Estate, Milford is pleased to announce the sale of the former A.W. Flint Ladder property located at 184-196 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT.

The Buyer, Enrique Rosado, is affiliated with Erwin Hauer Studios a designer and supplier of continua architectural screens and walls.  The buildings will be used to consolidate the design and production components of their company.  Erwin Hauer served on the Yale School of Architecture for more than three decades.  Rosado,

a business partner and former student of Erwin Hauer, was also represented by John Kozloski.  The City of New Haven Office of Economic and Business Development(Helen Rosenberg) was instrumental in providing incentives enabling the business to relocate within the City.

The A.W. Flint Ladder Company was founded in 1880 in New Haven and relocated several times within the city before purchasing the Chapel Street property in 1937.  In 1991 the a.W. Flint Ladder Company was sold to the Lynn Ladder Company of Lynn Ladder Company ceased operations at the facility in March 2009 and the property was then marketed by George J. Smith & Son.  The property consists of five buildings containing 54,000 square feet on approximately one acre of land is bound by Chapel Street, River Street, and Lloyd Street in the Fair Haven section of New Haven.j