Real Estate Practice Profile

KRASOW, GARLICK & HADLEY, LLC represents a large variety of landlords, tenants, mortgagees, and prospective buyers and sellers in connection with the building, land use, leasing, purchasing and selling of commercial, office, retail, industrial, and residential real estate. Clients have included Fortune 500 companies, major insurance companies, developers, builders, banks, commercial finance companies, retailers, common interest community associations, timeshares, professionals, and international companies in service industries. Our current and past clients also include small businesses, religious groups and individuals. We have worked on projects throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe and the Caribbean.

Our work has included:

• Representation of an international accounting and consulting firm for over twenty-five years in its extensive office-leasing program.
• Review of leases for national commercial real estate lenders in connection with our representation of those lenders in secured real estate lending.
• Representation of local and regional retail clients in leasing transactions.
• Builder, investor, and developer representation in office, shopping center, warehouse, and residential leasing, including ground leases.
• Branch leasing for regional and local banks.
• Landlord and tenant litigation, including complex conflicts involving occupancy leases and ground leases.
• Collaboration with our clients to create customized leasing programs, including the preparation and execution of a leasing program for one of the largest mixed?use projects in Connecticut. Customized leasing programs have ranged from the preparation of a comprehensive set of tenant-friendly forms for a large mixed-use project to the drafting of detailed long-term expansion requirements of a major tenant in a high-rise office building.
• Representation of borrowers and lenders in connection with construction, short term and permanent financing of shopping centers, office parks, industrial facilities, hotels and residential and commercial real estate developments.
• Negotiating and documenting bulk sales of notes and mortgages in complex workout transactions.
• Representing lenders, on a continuing basis, in connection with complex workouts of their delinquent debt portfolios.
• Representation of national lenders with respect to permanent and warehouse financing of mortgage loan and other consumer loan portfolio acquisitions and originations and investor note receivable financing.
• Representation of national timeshare lenders in connection with timeshare receivable loans and lines of credit relating to resort projects throughout the United States.

As part of our real estate practice, we often represent clients in various planning and zoning issues before town boards and commissions. We also deal on a regular basis with Town Planners throughout Connecticut on various issues affecting the development of real estate. The following are some of the matters in which we have been involved:

• Zoning approvals regarding a mixed use commercial/residential project (including common interest community issues) in the Town of Enfield.
• Variances and site plan approval for expansion of a parking lot for a national corporation's headquarters in the Town of Rocky Hill.
• Variance for a nursing home/extended care facility in the Town of West Hartford.
• Various zoning and inland-wetlands applications and hearings regarding residential subdivision approvals and related zoning matters.
• Variance issues and various zoning applications for Common Interest Communities in the Town of Simsbury.
• Planning and zoning applications relating to the construction and use of a branch bank facility in the Town of Avon.
• Planning and zoning applications relating to a commercial warehouse/office facility in the Town of Wethersfield.
• Planning and zoning applications relating to a commercial retail development in the Town of West Hartford.
• Representation of neighborhood groups regarding zoning issues.
• Issues involving maintenance of a private sewer system and turnover of the system to the Town of Simsbury.
• Various real estate tax appeals, both commercial and residential.
• Variance and permit issues for a commercial facility in the Town of Berlin.
• Review of affordable housing issues affecting a project in the Town of Simsbury.
• Planning and zoning applications relating to an age restricted residential community in the Town of Coventry.

While we vigorously represent our clients, we are mindful that the objective of keeping legal expenses within a specified budget is of paramount concern. We strive to keep our clients involved and informed at every stage of our involvement, and copies of all court pleadings filed or received are simultaneously provided to the clients, together with regular status reports.

To assist our clients and the public in better understanding our role in the collection and foreclosure process, we often conduct seminars for lenders and trade groups, including the Connecticut Mortgage Banker's Association, The Greater Hartford Association of Realtors and various committees of the Connecticut Bar Association. The attorneys who practice in this area frequently participate in and attend continuing legal education programs to maintain an awareness of the latest developments in pertinent areas of the law.

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