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Visions For Vacancies: Readers Offer Suggestions For East Granby Site
A large building off Route 20 was featured last week, and nearly four dozen readers offered their ideas to potential usage.

EAST GRANBY, CT — Last week's Visions For Vacancies feature, highlighting a vacant commercial parcel in East Granby, resulted in more than 40 suggestions from readers as to what they believe would be a good use for the property.
The listing was for a large building at 2 Gateway Boulevard, off Route 20. Two spaces are available for lease, measuring 27,486 and 4,000 square feet, respectively.
Some readers suggested national chains, including:
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- Aldi
- Buc-ees
- Trader Joe's
- Wegman's
Others were less specific, offering ideas such as:
- Art gallery
- Autism clinic
- Bar and dance area
- Casino
- DMV office
- Grocery store
- High end restaurant
- Holistic healing center
- Hotel
- Indoor shooting range
- Indoor trampoline place
- Live music venue or event hall
- Live-work studio dwellings for artists
- Medical office complex
- Medical research
- Motorcycle dealer
- Multigenerational community center
- Police athletic league
- Security operations center
- Solar energy
- Sports activity complex
- Tax advisory and auditing
- Technical regional high school
- Teen center
- Toddler indoor play center
- Total Runner Athletics
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