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.

08/31/2026

The first floor of the Burnside Co Mill was built for making things, and it still is.

Fourteen-foot windows pour daylight across a production bay with exposed brick walls and beams that were cut before 1870. This is floor-level space meant for people who build with their hands — cabinet makers, fabricators, metal workers, anyone whose work needs room to move and a door big enough to carry it in and out.

There is a loading dock steps away, and a freight elevator that still does what it was installed to do more than a century ago. When the building made paper for the Hartford Courant, raw stock rolled through this floor on its way to the presses. Now the same bones hold workshops, tools, and the sound of something being made from scratch.

This is not a sterile space. It is a working floor in a working building, surrounded by more than sixty other businesses — artists, engineers, a coffee roaster, a recording studio — all sharing the same landmark walls.

87 Church Street, East Hartford, CT. Walk it and see.

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

08/31/2026

The third floor of the Burnside Co Mill is about to open up, and it has been quiet for a long time.

For years this level held storage and old equipment, keeping the building's memories out of sight. But an upper floor of a nineteenth-century mill was built to do a job, and it is about to do one again.

The entire level is coming available. It can be taken as one continuous sweep of space, or divided into whatever arrangement fits. High ceilings, long sight lines, light from the tall windows that face out over East Hartford.

If you have been looking for a home for an engineering team, a design studio, or a company that has outgrown its spare bedroom, this is the kind of room you wait for.

The building once made paper for the Hartford Courant. The third floor is about to make something new.

Come see it before the rest of East Hartford does.

87 Church Street, East Hartford, CT
(860) 451-4314

08/29/2026

It is one room.

Not the biggest space at the Burnside Co Mill. Not the flashiest. The smallest one, tucked into a corner of 87 Church Street in East Hartford, Connecticut.

That is the point.

A door that locks. A window that looks out toward the Hockanum River. Room for a desk, a chair, a shelf, and whatever you are building. Nobody asks anything of you. Nobody bothers you. You walk in, close the door, and the work happens.

Around you, the mill hums with more than sixty businesses. A cabinet maker. A recording studio. A coffee roaster. A commercial kitchen. Engineers and artists quietly making things. But this room is yours, and the door shuts all of it out.

For a hundred and fifty years this building made paper for the Hartford Courant. It still rewards people who come here to do quiet, focused work.

If you need a place to think, to build, to start something, come see it.

Call (860) 451-4314.

08/29/2026

The Burnside Co Mill has a commercial kitchen on the first floor, and it is ready for someone who cooks for a living.

It sits right off the loading dock, so when a truck backs up with flour, produce, or a pallet of whatever you make, it comes through the door a few steps from where you work. The kitchen is fully permitted and ready for someone who has been waiting for a space that was built for this kind of work. All utilities are included.

This building once made paper for the Hartford Courant, powered by the Hockanum River. Today it holds more than sixty businesses, a coffee roaster, a cabinet maker, a recording studio, artists and engineers, and now a kitchen waiting for its cook.

If you cater, bake, brew, or pack food for market, and you have outgrown a shared kitchen or a home stove, come see the first floor at 87 Church Street, East Hartford, CT.

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

08/28/2026

Not every business needs a big footprint. Some of the best work happening inside the Burnside Co Mill is happening in a single room.

The studios here are compact and affordable, exactly the kind of space a solo professional, a small shop, or a two-person team needs to get off the ground. They sit inside a building that made paper for the Hartford Courant back when the Hockanum River turned every wheel on the floor. The brick is original. The light comes through windows that have stood here since the 1800s.

You share the hallways with a cabinet maker on the first floor, a recording studio on the second, a coffee roaster and a commercial kitchen down the hall. This is not a sterile office park. It is a working building, and the people inside actually make things.

If you need a room of your own, a place to build and work without a lease that feels like a mortgage, come see what is available at 87 Church Street, East Hartford, CT.

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

08/28/2026

There's a room at 87 Church Street in East Hartford that asks very little of you.

A door that locks. A window facing the Hockanum River. Enough room for a desk, a chair, and whatever you're building.

It's the kind of office a solo professional or a two-person startup grows into. Not a cubicle farm, not a shared floor with strangers walking past your screen. Just a quiet commercial space in a building that has been giving people room to work for more than a century and a half.

This mill once made paper for the Hartford Courant. Today it holds more than sixty businesses, a recording studio, a coffee roaster, a cabinet maker, engineers, artists, each with their own door, their own hours, their own way of working.

If you've been working from a kitchen table and you're ready for a room with a river view and a door that locks, come see it.

Call (860) 451-4314.

87 Church Street, East Hartford, CT

08/27/2026

The Hockanum River has been turning wheels at 87 Church Street for more than a century.

When this building was a working paper mill, the river did everything. It spun the turbines that ran the machinery. It drove the pulp beaters that broke wood down into fiber. It kept the presses fed with the power to roll out paper for the Hartford Courant, day after day. Nobody had to explain to the river what it was making possible. It just kept moving.

The machinery is long gone, but the river never stopped. It still runs along the back of the building, past the old stone foundations, past the windows where a cabinet maker now cuts wood and a coffee roaster watches beans turn dark. The current that once powered industry now runs beside a working community of more than sixty businesses.

That is the quiet thing about this place. The river did not retire. It just found a new job.

If you want to build something beside water that has been working for a hundred and fifty years, come see the Burnside Co Mill at 87 Church Street, East Hartford, CT. Call (860) 451-4314.

08/27/2026

87 Church Street. East Hartford, CT.

A hundred and fifty years ago, this building made paper for the Hartford Courant. Pulp came up from the Hockanum River, got beaten and pressed and cut, and left here as the morning paper for half of Connecticut.

Today the Burnside Co Mill makes something else. It makes companies. More than sixty of them work here now, small shops and solo trades and a few startups, each behind its own locked door. A cabinet maker. A recording studio. A coffee roaster. People who needed a real place to do real work.

This is not a sterile office park. It is a landmark with brick walls and river light, and there is room in it for whatever you are building. Come walk the floors and see if one of them fits.

Call (860) 451-4314

08/26/2026

There are two kinds of buildings in East Hartford. The ones you lease a room in, and the ones you remember. The Burnside Co Mill, at 87 Church Street, is the second kind.

The building sits on the state's register of historic places, and you can tell the moment you walk in. The brick was laid before 1870. The beams overhead are timber, not steel. The light that comes through the tall windows is the kind of light that makes a workshop feel like a studio, and a studio feel like a home.

Here is the practical part: the lease terms here are not carved in stone. Short or long, one room or a full floor, we can shape it around what you are actually building. No fluorescent lights, no drop ceilings, no beige walls. Just a real building with real bones.

If you have been looking for a space that does not feel temporary, come walk through. Call (860) 451-4314 to set up a time.

08/26/2026

Behind the Burnside Co Mill, the Hockanum River doesn't just flow past. It works. For more than a century it pushed through Burnside Dam Number Two, turning the turbines that turned the presses and beaters of a working paper mill.

The dam is still there. So is the headrace, the stone, and the water that never stopped moving. What changed is what the building makes. Where the river once powered machinery, it now powers something quieter but no less alive: more than sixty businesses building their own things inside a landmark that has stood in East Hartford since the 1800s.

There is talk of bringing the hydro back. Not as a museum piece, but as real, working generation. Water that has been running through this town since before the building existed, put back to work.

If that's the kind of place you want to build in, come see it. 87 Church Street, East Hartford, CT.

Call (860) 451-4314.

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East Hartford, CT
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