USA Waste late last year spent $14.5 million buying three properties — 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.
“It’s an opportunity you just have to take a hard, long look at, even if we are still evaluating what’s the uses for us on these sites,” Antonacci said. “You 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.”
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…