TRUMBULL – The site of the former Trumbull Printing Company at 205 Spring Hill Road has been sold for $6.4 million to a Bronx manufacturer, according to the real estate broker Vidal/Wettenstein.
BACO Enterprises, which makes construction fasteners for bridges and tunnels as well as anchor bolts, threaded rods, and miscellaneous structural steel components, purchased the 57,000-square-foot building for $112.28 per square foot from GP 205 Spring Hill LLC.
The property, which sits on 6.9 acres, once published weekly and daily newspapers throughout Fairfield County until many of them were sold to private equity firms in the early to mid-2000s. Some of the newspapers included the former Brooks Community Newspapers weeklies and Hersam Acorn’s the New Canaan Advertiser, Ridgefield Press, Wilton Bulletin, and Darien Times. Trumbull Printing closed for good in 2024.
For more then 40 years, BACO has played an essential role in helping New York and the surrounding towns build, repair and expand. BACO has worked on bridges, tunnels and commercial high-rise structures.
Bruce Wettenstein, SIOR of Vidal/Wettenstein, represented the buyer, and Wes Craft & Tyler Lyman of True Commercial represented the seller. Ken Gruder, of Goldman Gruder & Woods, was legal counsel for the purchaser.
The building, which was built in 1969, was last appraised by the Town of Trumbull for $2.99 million. Prior to the latest sale, the property was sold to GP 205 Spring Hill LLC for $4.4 million from Trumbull Printing LLC. Prior to that, it was sold to Hersam Acorn Community Publishing in 2007 for $3.59 million.
