I Used to Work in this Abandoned & Decaying Office Park! This is Not How I Remember It!

Join me as I explore the abandoned office park where I used to work from 2000 to 2007! It's not looking too good!
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[@rightsideupvt]

For some weird reason, I love seeing overgrown properties like this. It's amazing how nature takes back concrete and pavement. It's surprising no one is van living or being homeless there.

[@fleabittenadventures]

I agree. It's amazing how nature takes over in a very short period of time.

[@jmnordman]

A lot of the growth here is invasive plants like tree of heaven, bittersweet, garlic mustard, and so on. Looks like the knotweed menace hasn’t gotten to it yet though - stuff is spreading around CT like the plague and it’s a massive undertaking to get rid of it. If someone’s planning to rehabilitate this office park, they should keep an eye out.

[@mrcat3493]

A number of years ago NatGeo had a documentary about nature reclaiming what humans developed if we all disappeared. it was pretty wild.

[@ebunky]

Reminds me of The Hartford in Simsbury. Building shut down and it sat for years until they finally tore it down. Now just awaiting the highly expensive community housing to be built. Thanks for this video. I definitely would enjoy more as well as mall videos!

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yes. I wish I had been able to see that before it was torn down.

[@Danzig1387]

Ive been following your channel since the beginning, definitely love these abandoned videos! Please do more! Its been nice watching your channel grow. Keep it up!

[@fleabittenadventures]

Thank you! Will do!

[@laurabrochard1146]

I'm with him!

[@lindagoreham2238]

Tom, thanks for showing us around! That was quite a walk you had from your car to your office. I like all content you give us its always interesting!

[@Cassie00111]

yes, he definitely got his steps in going to and from work.

[@fleabittenadventures]

It wasn't too bad a walk. It currently takes me exactly 4 minutes to walk from my car to my desk at my new job.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Every step helps...

[@mrcat3493]

This is great content, I would love to see more abandoned commercial property videos.

[@avgjoeavglife]

I wanna see more of this type of content.

[@SSNESS]

It’s in East Hartford

[@avgjoeavglife]

@@SSNESS Shhh

[@laurabrochard1146]

I agree. More of this

[@fleabittenadventures]

OK. I'll see what I can do. Thanks for watching!

[@fleabittenadventures]

You think so?

[@RayOutThere]

It's really wild to see office complexes go abandoned. I've been noticing many sitting vacant in my area. I guess it's just another aspect of life that's been outdated by technology. I just wish someone would make good use of these buildings.

[@mgratk]

Outsourced to India, China, etc

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yes, especially since that thing that happened in 2020. A lot of people are working from home. It's good for us though. We get more places to film for our channels.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yup.

[@eddiepealock]

Hey @RayOutThere I didn’t know you knew about this channel too

[@ShaneMclane-PrivateEye]

I love these tours, thanks.

[@SSNESS]

My dad abandoned our family back in 1986

[@fleabittenadventures]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@fleabittenadventures]

Sorry to hear that. I assume you are making a joke, but it's hard to tell in the comments section.

[@ShaneMclane-PrivateEye]

@@fleabittenadventures No, I genuinely enjoy them. Thanks again.

[@SSNESS]

@@fleabittenadventures my parents got divorced and he moved to Massachusetts

[@American_Pariah]

I know where this is on Blue HilIs and worked in building 3 between 2005 and 2008. AMS Services used to be there. I didn’t realize that it was abandoned.

[@MervinGriff]

I worked in building #3 when this was newly built in 1982 for the original owners, then the complex was sold in 1996 then again in 2001. its for sale currently.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Wow. I'm surprised so many people recognized this place and actually worked there.

[@MervinGriff]

@@fleabittenadventures I worked there when Hartford National owned it.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

Looks like a nice building, very modern for 1982.

[@mgratk]

Great video, the pond looks really nice actually. Strange going back to places from your past. I worked at a lumberyard from high school through grad school, from about 1985 through 95 or so. It's now abandoned due to the rise of Home Depot and Lowes. It's a really weird feeling seeing it(even though the owner was a mean old SOB and I never missed it a bit when I left). Time marches on.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yes, it was nice. There used to be a fountain, if I recall correctly. I think some of the other buildings on the other side of the building are still in use, so that's why the pond is still largely maintained.

[@terryechoes3192]

I wish I could get permission to just explore these areas. I feel like it would teach you so much about our society and infrastructure and history. Things that are important and that we should learn to understand more about the world.

[@fleabittenadventures]

I would love to go inside, but I'm not going to do anything to get myself in trouble.

[@DavidGlaum]

I enjoy seeing videos about abandoned places.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Me too. I'll try to do some more, if I can find them.

[@cdcVintage]

Im the same age as you and these buildings remind me of an office job I worked at from 2000 to 2003. It was a DOS based program we used and this was before companies were outsourcing and automating. I wish you would have been able to tell us what you did at this job. Thanks for sharing.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yeah, I don't want to go into specifics, but we were using a DOS based system when I started up until about 2003 or so.

[@OriginalNethead]

I know of one office building sitting empty, or it was, right off of 91. I temped in it years ago, when there were still temp agencies. Those buildings get outdated and sometimes the industries they were built for become outmoded. My town has a pile of medical buildings too, and at least one - purpose-built - has been vacant for years. Just sitting there. The employer wanted to add serices or be in a more visible location. Or something. It's been sitting with a "for lease" sign on it for a long while. It would have to be gutted and redone to be used for anything else.

[@Cassie00111]

my local community college used these type of buildings for small satellite campuses but only for English, history, math, the type of classes that don't need labs, gyms or fancy rooms... just a room and a blackboard.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Sadly, I think there's thousands of other buildings like this.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

Yeah, there's a Healthcare center in my town, built 1990, closed 2000, abandoned since (2.5x as long as it was open). Super prime location too. Heard it has a mold problem.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

Nice, perfectly good buildings, beautiful grounds, will prob end up a warehouse or data center. Sad.

[@aleks1939]

Nice video. This could be a fun location for playing paintball. My friends and I used to play all over RI back in the 80s around and sometimes in abandoned structures.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yeah, the layout would be good for that.

[@DanT271]

More abandoned places would be awesome 👍

[@fleabittenadventures]

I'll see what I can do. Thanks

[@davidbowman9494]

I was an insurance adjuster for Liberty Mutual for the better part of my adult life. They moved are offices every time the lease would expire. This office park and your narrative brings back a lot of memories from those exact same years.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Good times! Thanks for watching!

[@GOPRepubliklan]

Yeah they'll hop around and get other towns to compete with tax breaks only to end up with abandoned monstrosities eventually. But it looks good politically. Unless it's a Chinese battery company. But OK if jt's a Chinese tech company (Foxconn/Wisconsin).

[@ronhoover5516]

Wow. I'll never understand why office facilities like this are just left to rot while new ones go up all over the place. I don't get it, but I guess deep down I do, it's a maintenance issue plus the new facilities probably give the property management companies a tax writeoff.

[@GCJACK83]

Both correct, sad to say. As a building gets older, eventually it becomes cheaper to just knock it down and put up a new building on the same plot of land.

[@fleabittenadventures]

I agree. There's no reason I can think of why it couldn't still be used, but who knows, it may have hidden maintenance or structural issues we can't see.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yup.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

A lot has to do with tax code. You can build a new building and get massive tax benefits for the first 5-15 years through accelerated and bonus depreciation. After 39 years, the IRS considers a commercial building completely worthless and used up and you can no longer write anything off. You can start the clock over by gutting the interior down to the studs but few will unless there is a tenant lined up (and they want new, ready to go buildings) so they sit. Other than the land, they are (from an accounting standpoint) worthless to the company/owners.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

This all started in 1986 with tax reform and you'll notice how disposable commercial buildings became afterwards.

[@MyHandleOnYouTube]

Reminds me of executive drive in southington. The Hartford had two buildings like that back in late 90s when I worked there.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yes, the buildings are very cookie cutter.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

You can OWN Bldg 3! Currently up for auction in 2 days with a starting price of just $450,000! Has a full cafeteria/kitchen and is in great shape inside.

[@99thDoom]

I wouldn't mind a few more videos on abandoned places, but don't let it become your main thing. I like your usual stuff, exploring neat retail places, as an alternative to those kind of urbex channels. Also, at 2:55, what did you lose? I'm not sure I'm hearing it right...

[@andysorensen1737]

His desk had a great view out the window shown before he was moved elsewhere in the building.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Don't worry. I'll still post flea market videos on Saturday and malls/stores on Wednesday. Any abandoned type videos will be a third video posted some other day of the week

[@ETHEYtheDREAMER]

My sister worked here in the 90s and as a kid I remember a Christmas party in the lobby (building 1?) in which the families brought kids to meet Santa and get presents and stuff. There was a giant tree there too I think because the ceiling of the lobby was like 2-3 floors up, or more. I also remember her showing me how a Copy machine worked by putting her head down and scanning her face.

[@ETHEYtheDREAMER]

In the mid 2000s though I had a friend work in the long building which I don't quite remember the number. They once had a call regarding someone who's legal name may or may not have been "The Magical Poof."

[@fleabittenadventures]

I don't think that would have been building 1 because the lobby was only one level. Could have been one of the other buildings though.

[@GOPRepubliklan]

M uncle did the same thing but he used his butt.

[@JayVee-521]

I work in one of the nearby offices and I'll occasionally walk through the lot during my lunch break. It really is in desperate need of cleaning up. Every so often there's a car parked at the back bottom door of #3, so maybe things might be happening? Couldn't say for sure though.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Something seemed to be going on in building 3. The third floor lights were on and the parking lot seems well-maintained.

[@Cassie00111]

That pond must have been a natural body of water to last after the building is abandoned. the land would make a great place for a large condo complex.

[@fleabittenadventures]

I'm actually not sure about that. Some of the other buildings on the other side of the pond are still in use, so that may be why it's still in pretty good shape.

[@JinTalzeus]

Are the lights still on in those offices?

[@avgjoeavglife]

Looks like it.

[@fleabittenadventures]

The lights seem to be on on the top floor of building 3. The lights you might have seen when I looked inside were most likely just the reflection of the outside light.

[@avgjoeavglife]

@@fleabittenadventures I dunno, when you put your camera against the window, the lights were on but pretty dim.

[@mark3464]

Very 80s corp feel.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yeah. I would guess that's probably when it was built

[@BuffaloChicken]

More abandoned stuff!

[@fleabittenadventures]

I'll see what I can do. Thanks.

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

"Seeing this pond brings back some memories" Me: Ooh maybe people fishing, or RC boats, wonder what it could be! "They found some guy dead" Me: oh I always like to see personal recollection videos about malls... Never seen one about an office complex. This is interesting too!

[@fleabittenadventures]

Ha ha, yeah. There were good memories too, but that's the one the really stood out for me.

[@fanglanddd7342]

I’m super curious wat kind of work u did there, can u give a hint?

[@GOPRepubliklan]

OFFICE WORK

[@saralomnicky7653]

I think I worked there in 2002!

[@michaelblack7618]

Makes you wonder about building #2

[@GOPRepubliklan]

The Phoenix Airport has 2 terminals: 3 and 4.

[@ambsat]

I'm in CT, but don't think I'm anywhere near that. You don't have to say where you worked but did the company go out of business, or just move headquarters? And was that complex all used for just one company, the one you worked for? Just curious. Must be so weird for you to see it now and imagine how it was when you were there. Time marches on...things change...but so many things seem to be becoming "defunct" lately.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Company moved out of state.

[@zoeazsss5035]

I find it sad and upsetting that the location, or at least the city or town of location is kept private.

[@chrismckenna5361]

Waterside crossing in Windsor

[@zoeazsss5035]

@@chrismckenna5361 thank you

[@brucesumter4327]

wow so cool can you do more of like this video ty video i hope your mom is doing Good??

[@fleabittenadventures]

I'll see what I can find. Mom's doing well. She's not interested in going to abandoned places, so she'll be sitting these out. Thanks

[@brucesumter4327]

@@fleabittenadventures ok ty

[@Cassie00111]

did the business just move or did it go out of business.?

[@jeff-rz3ef]

The employees were reassigned to an HQ location nearby

[@fleabittenadventures]

The company I worked for moved out of state

[@laurabrochard1146]

It's sad 😢. World gone bye

[@fleabittenadventures]

Sure is.

[@lilspliffington3268]

somebody needa turn this into a topgolf

[@fleabittenadventures]

Sure, why not.

[@laurabrochard1146]

You walked onto a Walking Dead set. Run!! The zombies are in the building

[@fleabittenadventures]

They could definitely use this place in a zombie show.

[@BreakTime10101]

Building 1 and 3, no 2?

[@fleabittenadventures]

It's across the street

[@Typh00n120]

Ha I bet this is in Windsor!

[@MervinGriff]

Yep long ago i worked in building 3.

[@fleabittenadventures]

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

[@zoeazsss5035]

Dont know why there is such a big secret about location of abandoned places. Most of the time I dont watch youtube videos bc they dont actuallly say the location. imo it rather sucks not to know.

[@chrismckenna5361]

Waterside

[@Madness832]

Why no #2?🤔

[@fleabittenadventures]

It's across the street

[@DerekDumas]

I know exactly where that is. A former shell of what it once was. All these modern buildings are just. . . Garbage.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yeah, they don't seem to have been built to last.

[@DerekDumas]

@fleabittenadventures none of those structures are. Look at the buildings in east Windsor, next to the ct kids' place. . . Same materials, same builders, and all of them just falling apart. Working with Frenchies, I saw a lot of those commercial buildings. . . I was in monson for the tornado, and all the buildings that were made of granite didn't budge. Heck, CT has a bunch in Stafford and surrounding areas of the state, too. Or the underground tunnels going through the town, all granite. It doesn't rust, hard to break, and you aren't moving it, nor is a tornado. But then I saw this video, and I'm reminded that all those buildings will be nothing without being maintained in a matter of a couple of decades.

[@richardpartyka7068]

Konica?

[@MervinGriff]

nope

[@MervinGriff]

@@jeff-rz3ef you are correct, only 3 miles down the road!

[@jeff-rz3ef]

​@@MervinGrifflearned how to drive in those parking logs up that way

[@fleabittenadventures]

Nope. Close though.

[@madmerlot841]

It's not looking good for CRE anywhere because of offshoring and remote work. This entire park might be demolished someday. Not much use for offices now and I don't think that will change anytime soon.

[@johnsarian_cu]

It's especially true of service industry related companies like insurance. I won't say the name, but I"m pretty sure that was a fair sized campus for a health related insurer. Which the Hartford area is known for. What hasn't been moved overseas will probably soon be impacted by AI, too.

[@madmerlot841]

@@johnsarian_cu Hartford lost a lot of insurance related jobs. I'm sure that office park will never reopen.

[@chrismckenna5361]

Said health insurer only occupied a small part of that real estate for a while and only after they sold off one of there buildings on their nearby main campus

[@fleabittenadventures]

I'll have to take a drive around the rest of the complex. I'm not sure how many of the other buildings are vacant. But yeah, it probably won't be around for too much longer.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yes, there were MANY different insurance companies in there.

[@melissahurt317]

Why wasn't there a building 2????🤔🤔🤔

[@fleabittenadventures]

There is, but it's across the road for some reason.

[@AirplaneDoctor_]

You would think with no security the buildings would trashed or filled with méth heads.

[@fleabittenadventures]

It's a fairly safe area not near much else.

[@aleks1939]

Yep, here in metro Atlanta urban explorers wouldn't dare go near something like this, even if they were armed . You'd get your ass capped by gangs and/or crackheads.

[@SummerLove217]

Think of the homeless veterans that could have been housed in these buildings.

[@lwsadventures5128]

The buildings look so Yuppie/80s monstrosities.

[@MervinGriff]

was built in 1982

[@fleabittenadventures]

Yes, very 1980s design.

[@fleabittenadventures]

Thanks for the info!