The Burnside Co Mill

The Burnside Co Mill 87 Church Street East Hartford CT -
A 70,000 Sq Ft Historic Commercial Building with a diverse mix of tenants. Message us about leasing options.

Follow along as we reactivate the hydro electric power plant.

09/14/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

Part of this building was never meant to be an office.

Floor-level production space. Fourteen-foot windows that bring in more light than most workshops get in a full day. Exposed brick. Timber beams cut before 1870 that are still carrying load.

This is where things get made.

A cabinet maker works the first floor now, and on a quiet afternoon you can hear his saw from the dock. That is the sound this building was designed around. Freight elevator. Loading dock right there for material and finished work. Room to spread out, set up a jig, and leave a project standing overnight without anyone asking you to clean up.

If you fabricate, weld, mill, assemble, or build physical things for a living, this building understands what you need. High ceilings. Honest floors. Neighbors who make noise too.

The Burnside Co Mill was built for industry and never stopped being a working building. 60+ businesses now, but the character is industrial, not corporate.

Production space does not stay open long. Call (860) 451-4314 to walk through it.

09/14/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

Something is about to change on the third floor.

For years this floor has been quiet. Long rows of windows, wide corridors, and that particular hush that only a building from the 1800s can produce. Over the last year it has been cleaned out, rewired, and made ready. Now the entire floor is opening up, and we are looking for the right people to fill it.

Take it as one large space, or subdivide it into smaller offices. Either way you get 14-foot windows facing the Hockanum River, exposed brick, beams cut before the Civil War, and neighbors who are actually building something — engineers, designers, and software teams who moved in upstairs ahead of you.

That is the point of this building. Sixty-plus businesses under one roof: a cabinet maker, a recording studio, a coffee roaster, a commercial kitchen, artists, engineers. Not a sterile office park. If you have outgrown the coworking desk or the kitchen table, and you want a space you can shape yourself, this is the moment to walk the floor.

Call (860) 451-4314 before it fills.

09/12/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

The smallest space in this building is not much to look at from the hallway. One room. A door that locks. A window facing the Hockanum River.

That is the whole pitch, and for a certain kind of worker it is enough.

Not every business is trying to grow. Some are already the right size. A bookkeeper with a client list built one invoice at a time. A machinist doing precision work on his own schedule. A photographer who needs a place for the lights, the files, and the quiet. Someone who left a company and took the work with them.

What that room gives you is something no open floor plan can: nobody walks past your door looking for a conference room. No shared desk. No one asking what you are working on. The room is yours, and so is the day.

The mill around it has been running since the nineteenth century, when it made paper for the Hartford Courant. More than sixty businesses work under this roof now, and the smallest ones have always been the ones that kept the place alive.

If you want a door that closes and work that stays yours, call (860) 451-4314 to schedule a walkthrough.

09/12/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

There is one space in this building that people ask about before they have even finished walking the hallway. The commercial kitchen sits on the first floor, fully permitted, and it is ready for the day you move your operation in.

It sits right off the loading dock, which matters more than it sounds. A truck backs up, the doors open, and your product goes from the street to the cooler without a single staircase in between. If you run a food business, that is the difference between a good morning and a bad one.

Utilities are included. The room has been used. Someone cooked here before you, which means the hood, the plumbing, the electrical, and the floor drains are all where they need to be, tested by people doing exactly what you do.

This mill made paper for the Hartford Courant for most of a century. Now, among the sixty-odd businesses under this roof, the smell of fresh-roasted coffee and the first bake of the day drift down the same hallways.

If you are scaling a food business out of a home kitchen, or waiting on a shared commissary with a long list, come stand in a kitchen built to work.

Call (860) 451-4314 to schedule a walkthrough.

09/11/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

There is a kind of business that has outgrown the kitchen table but is not ready for a corporate lease. It needs four walls, a door that locks, and somewhere to put the work.

More than one studio is available at the Burnside Co Mill right now.

These are small commercial spaces inside a nineteenth-century paper mill on the Hockanum River, the building that once made the stock for the Hartford Courant. Brick, tall windows, old floors.

We have watched studios like these become something: a bookkeeper who stopped meeting clients in coffee shops. None of them needed size. They needed a room, and a building with character around it.

They also got neighbors. More than sixty businesses share this roof: a cabinet maker, a recording studio, a coffee roaster, a commercial kitchen, engineers and artists building things by hand. Small spaces, but not a small world.

If you have been looking for the first real home for your business, this is a good week to walk the building.

Call (860) 451-4314 to schedule a look.

09/11/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

Some spaces do not need to announce themselves. One room. A door that locks. A window that looks out over the Hockanum River and whatever the water happens to be doing that day.

For a solo professional, that is often all you actually need. An accountant with a desk and a filing cabinet. A contractor between jobs. A writer. A therapist who wants quiet. Someone building a startup out of a laptop and a phone. Not a cubicle farm, not a lease three sizes too big for the work, just a room of your own in a building that has been standing since the 1800s.

The light here is real light, through tall old windows. The heat works. More than sixty businesses call this building home, so you are not alone in the hallway, but nobody walks past your door unless you want them to.

The mill once made paper for the Hartford Courant. Now it makes room for people building something more interesting than paper.

If you have been working from a kitchen table, come stand in a space built to be worked in.

Call (860) 451-4314 to schedule a walkthrough.

09/10/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

The Hockanum River runs right past this building. For more than a century, that water did the heavy lifting. It turned the turbines that drove the pulp beaters and the presses that made paper for the Hartford Courant. The river never stopped, and the building learned to work with it instead of against it.

The machinery is quieter now, but the river still runs through the story of this place the way it always has.

What changed is what all that power is used for. Today the energy flowing through these old walls goes into sixty-some businesses, each making something different. A cabinet maker. A coffee roaster. A recording studio. Engineers and artists and people running kitchens and shops. The river gave this building its strength; the people inside give it its life.

That is the difference between a landmark and a warehouse. A warehouse only holds things. This place holds work, the people doing it, and the river that made all of it possible.

Come see it for yourself. The water is still right there.

Call (860) 451-4314.

09/10/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

Walk into most commercial spaces and the first thing you notice is the light. Flat, blue, fluorescent. The kind of light that makes every day feel like a waiting room.

This building does not have that light.

Sun comes through fourteen-foot windows. Old brick catches it in the afternoon. The freight elevator still runs the way it has for generations, and the loading dock faces the street so a truck can back right up to your door.

People rent here because they want a place that feels like a workshop, not an office park. Flexible terms, a landlord who answers the phone, and a building that has been working for more than a century.

If you are building something, a shop, a studio, a kitchen, a team, come see what a real mill feels like.

Call (860) 451-4314.

09/09/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

Before this building ever made paper, the river made the power. Burnside Dam #2 sits on the Hockanum River, a quiet piece of engineering that once turned moving water into the energy driving the turbines, the pulp beaters, the presses. For most of a century, this mill did not draw power from the grid. It drew power from the current running past its own foundation.

That history has not gone anywhere. The dam is still there, and so is the idea behind it: this is a building that was built to work. Water comes in. Energy goes out. The same principle that once kept the Hartford Courant rolling now keeps more than sixty businesses running under one roof.

There is talk of reactivating the hydro. It is a long road, but it says something about the place. Most commercial buildings are boxes you plug into the wall. This one sits on a river that used to power an entire industry.

If you want your business somewhere with that kind of spine, call (860) 451-4314.

09/09/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

For most of a century, this building did one job: it made paper for the Hartford Courant. Every morning the presses downtown ran on stock that rolled out of these floors. The mill was the first page of the story, even if nobody ever saw its name.

The presses are gone now, and so is the paper. But the building still prints things. It prints companies. A cabinet maker, a recording studio, a coffee roaster, a kitchen, artists, engineers, people with a name on a door and a thing they are trying to build.

Every one of them started the same way: with an idea and a place to put it. The mill has been saving that place for a hundred and fifty years, and right now there is room on its floors for the next story it will tell.

So the only question is the one the building has always asked its tenants. What will you build here?

Call (860) 451-4314 and write your chapter.

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87 Church Street
East Hartford, CT
06108

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