Coming Soon: Pro Park, Cava and Cold Stone Creamery
- Peter Marteka
- Mar 27
- 3 min read
By Peter Marteka
Editor
It has been a busy late winter in town with plans for a commercial incubator, Mediterranean food and ice cream made on granite stone moving forward.
Glastonbury Pro Park
The town plan and zoning commission approved a plan by Rich Rotundo and Butch James to build nine commercial buildings – each one 10,080 square feet – on a cul-de-sac located at 107 Sequin Drive. The nine-acre development would mirror the type of commercial areas along Oakwood Drive, Commerce Street and Kreiger Lane, according to attorney Peter J. Alter who represented the developers.
“The commercial community is going to embrace this,” he said. “These used to be referred to as incubator units...there’s been a real lack of this kind of development in Glastonbury. They allow small businesses to find their way out of someone’s garage or house and grow into something significant.”
Alter said the units are “flexible enough” to be developed as a single unit, two units or four units.
“Whatever somebody can make use of...it presents opportunities for the growth of a business,” he said. “Warehousing is always the predominant use, but we also noted that other kinds of start-up businesses find these types of units very attractive...They have everything a small business might need. There are a whole variety of uses.”
The units can be used to serve the trade businesses like plumbers and electricians, small contractors, automobile collectors or building maintenance companies. Owner Rich Rotundo said four of the buildings are “already spoken for” with “good potential prospects” for the others.
“I think it’s going to go pretty quick,” he said.
Lane Brunner, a general contractor, praised the plan.
“It is something that is needed in this town. As a small contractor to try and find space to put small businesses for people in the trades especially now that a lot of the trades are really tough now trying to find work and space and everything else,” he said.
Commission chairman Bob Zanlungo said he’s excited about the plan.
“I do think it’s necessary and needed and a good space for places to start or places to land,” he said.
CAVA
The Shops at Somerset Square will soon be the sixth Cava in the state joining Shelton, Greenwich, Newington, Danbury and Westport. According to the website, founders Ike Grigoropoulos, Chef Dimitri Moshovitis, and Ted Xenohristos “grew up among Greek food and community, spending every Sunday around a table of slow-roasted lamb, lemony roasted potatoes, and bowls of tzatziki.”
“This spirit of connection through food led to the very first CAVA, founded in 2010 with CEO Brett Schulman. Since then, they’ve made Mediterranean warmth and hospitality even more accessible, expanding to over 400 restaurants across the country,” the website noted.
The Mediterranean cuisine menu includes bowls like spicy lamb and sweet potato/steak and harissa/falafel crunch; steak and feta or greek chicken pitas; side crazy feta and fan-favorite hot harissa pita chips.
Datassential recently found that Cava was the number one "best healthy chain" in America.
Cold Stone Creamery
Ice cream created on frozen granite will be moving in next door to CAVA. According to the Cold Stone Creamery website, for more than 30 years the creamery “has served up the finest, freshest ice cream, cakes, smoothies and shakes using only the highest quality ingredients.”
The Glastonbury Cold Stone Creamery will join other Connecticut locations including South Windsor, Danbury, Orange, Waterford, Fairfield, Clinton and Meriden. GL