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November 7, 2024 Focus | Clean Energy

Developers behind Noble Gas brand buy Orange industrial property slated for redevelopment

Noble Gas
By Hanna Snyder Gambini

A development team that has ambitious plans to grow their rapidly evolving line of service stations has purchased an Orange industrial property slated for redevelopment. 

Michael Frisbie and Abdul Tammo, through Noble Orange LLC, have purchased a two-building light industrial property in Orange, at 88 Marsh Hill Road, for $3.75 million.

The 4.5-acre site includes a 21,300-square-foot warehouse and another 4,900-square-foot industrial office building.  

The property was listed as a redevelopment opportunity, just off Interstate 95.

Town records show the town Planning and Zoning Commission in January 2023 approved a plan, submitted by Monroe-based Solli Engineering, to convert the site into a 23,500-square-foot electric vehicle showroom and service center, with 16 fuel pumps and eight electric vehicle charging stations, and an 8,300-square-foot convenience store with a fast-food restaurant and drive-thru.

Over the past decade, Frisbie and Tammo have built or refurbished a dozen gas stations under their Hartford-based Noble Gas Inc. brand, aiming to offer clean and friendly service that is a cut above the competition.

More recently, they’ve pivoted to building a new generation of larger service centers with more amenities, designed to accommodate future driving and consumption habits.

The centers blend traditional offerings with a high-end deli, quality coffee and ice cream shops, latest-generation electric vehicle chargers and more.

Frisbie has also opened six Soapy Noble car washes at several of his Noble gas sites, including in East Hartford and Newington.  

Frisbie said the Orange project, which has been in the works for nearly three years, should be one of their best due to the location and underserved market there.

With the property purchased, he expects to start construction this winter and be open around this time next year, he said.

This will be one of four new Noble gas, electric charging and convenience store/food service sites in the state, with locations in East Hartford, Newington, Hamden and now Orange set to open within a year’s time, Frisbie said.

“Our plan was to open three or four a year for the next five years, and we’re on plan for that,” he said, adding that Connecticut has a strong market for this type of development.

The seller of the Orange property was Halepas Realty Inc., led by principals Peter and Stephanie Halepas.

The property has a total appraised value of $1.67 million, according to town records.

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