USA Waste late last year spent $14.5 million buying three properties 鈥� one in Watertown and two in Hartford. There are no detailed plans yet for the sites. But they are in proximity, Frank Antonacci, COO of USA Waste & Recycling said, to other USA Waste operations, and can easily serve short-term uses. They also offer space for future expansion, and can act as backup facilities.
鈥淚t鈥檚 an opportunity you just have to take a hard, long look at, even if we are still evaluating what鈥檚 the uses for us on these sites,鈥� Antonacci said. 鈥淵ou only have so many opportunities to acquire these sites that are right in your footprint. So, I think for us, we wanted to take advantage of that situation.鈥�
The newly acquired properties include 171 and 211 Murphy Road in Hartford, adjacent sites with a combined 8.5 acres. The properties host a 92,616-square-foot industrial building that is fully equipped and permitted as a single- and dual-stream recycling facility; and a one-story, 19,200-square-foot industrial building.
Antonacci said the Hartford properties are nestled among existing USA Waste operations, including solid waste and recycling transfer stations and a rail station, as well as a compressed natural gas fueling facility used by the company and city of Hartford trucks.