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November 17, 2022

Norwich car dealership president, avid outdoorsman buys 162 acres in Andover as private recreation area

COSTAR 0 Shoddy Mill Road, Andover
By Michael Puffer

The president of Scranton Chevrolet of Norwich recently paid $486,000 for a 162-acre property in Andover as something of a private wooded recreation area.

Matchacam Ally LLC paid $486,000 for the residentially zoned property at 0 Shoddy Mill Road, buying it from the Laudano family in a deal recorded Oct. 31.

The principal of Matchacam Ally is Matthew Scranton, of Glastonbury, according to state records. State records also list a Matthew L. Scranton, with the same Glastonbury address, as president of Scranton Chevrolet of Norwich Inc. Scranton was not immediately available for comment.

Sam Lyman, a brokerage manager with Lyman Real Estate, represented the Laudano family. Lyman said the property had been on the market for years before his company got the listing nearly three months ago

The presence of ledge and wetland reduces the site’s developable acreage to about 62 acres, Lyman said.

Lyman said Andover officials had expressed interest in buying the property. But, he said, that would have been dependent on a grant award to the town. The private sale was a much quicker and more certain option.

Cheri Trudon, real estate agent with ERA Blanchard & Rossetto acted as agent for the buyer. Scranton intends to build a house on the property and, perhaps later, build additional homes for family members. An avid outdoorsman, Scranton was attracted to the large property as a place where he and his children can enjoy the outdoors, Trudon said.

“He loves the land, and he wants to explore it with his little girls,” Trudon said. “He loves the terrain, the hills and the bumps. He doesn’t want to clear it out.”

In an email response to questions, Andover Town Administrator Eric Anderson said the site is ill suited to development due to topographical issues, and consequently had sat on the market for about 20 years. The town had made an offer in the hope of seeing it left as open space, Anderson said.  

The town has not yet been approached with any development proposals, he said. 
 

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