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June 24, 2024 / 2024 Power 25 Real Estate

2024 Power 25 Real Estate: Andrew Filler

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Andrew Filler has been in the middle of significant Greater Hartford office sales and leases over the past year.

Filler is a principal in the Hartford office of commercial real estate firm Avison Young, which is located in the Gold Building in downtown Hartford. Filler also represents Gold Building owners LAZ Investments and Shelbourne Global Solutions, and he’s recently helped them land a number of new tenants that have taken over 60,000 square feet of previously empty space.

That’s boosted the 26-story, 621,900-square-foot Class A office tower’s occupancy rate up to 78%. The new tenants include civil and environmental engineering firm Fuss & O’Neill (25,000 square feet), law firm Gordon Rees (14,000 square feet), CARMAC (11,000 square feet) and the Connecticut Health & Educational Facilities Authority (11,000 square feet).

Filler also represented Hartford HealthCare in its $14.25 million purchase of a 133,500-square-foot office building in Farmington, at 9 Farm Springs Road, where the hospital system consolidated its nonmedical functions. He also brokered Landmark Partners/Ares Capital’s office relocation to West Hartford from Simsbury, and represented Gengras Auto Group in the $3.15 million sale of its former 30,000-square-foot East Hartford Volvo dealership, at 300 Connecticut Blvd., to Freightliner of Connecticut.

Overall, Filler said the post-pandemic office market remains status quo, “as back to work has been slower than anyone could have anticipated,” and there’s been an acceptance that a hybrid work week is here to stay.

“The trend seems to be for most tenants to take less space and try to move to locations that have easy access to amenities for their employees, like West Hartford Center, where rents continue to rise,” he added. “I am hopeful more suburban tenants begin to see the value of being in downtown Hartford and take advantage of the value and amenities we have in the city. I think the opportunity is as the number of people living downtown continues to grow, and UConn has a residence hall in the central business district, that will begin to attract employers to see that Hartford is indeed a vibrant city again.”

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