Infini-Staff LLC, a professional staffing agency, has leased 900 square feet in Enfield.

Cutting Loose Salon will soon call Somers Crossing home, after two sisters leased 1,300 square feet in the shopping plaza.

Cronheim Mortgage has secured $23.8 million in acquisition financing for a two-building, 135,000-square-foot medical office building portfolio located just off the Merritt Parkway in Hamden.

Washington Trust, a Rhode Island bank, has underwritten a $2.9 million commercial real estate mortgage to 80 Mason Street LLC for the purchase of a 6,324-square-foot office building at 80 Mason Street in Greenwich.

Eagle Rock Advisors LLC has purchased the West Gate Town Homes in New Haven for $12.5 million.

A private investor, Amy Smith Sroka of Westchester, N.Y., has purchased a 4,087 square foot property at 35 Main St. in Essex for $725,000.

Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the “fiscal cliff” issue by year-end.

Over the past year, The Commercial Record has brought you the top headlines in Connecticut, from real estate to banking to business. On the last day of the year, we did some research to find the most viewed stories on our site over the past 52 weeks. Those stories ran the gamut: acquisitions, big real estate deals, and even mortgage fraud grabbed readers\’ attention this year.

A largely unused industrial site in Bridgeport is being prepared for construction of the largest fuel cell power plant in North America, giving a possible boost to the alternative fuel and economic development in Connecticut’s largest city.

Two medical office buildings in Hamden have sold for an undisclosed amount.

Timothy Matlack Warren Sr., chairman of The Warren Group, died peacefully on Dec. 21, 2012, at the age of 89 at his home in Topsham, Maine, surrounded by his wife and family.

Stamford-based Starwood Hotels & Resorts expects to have signed more than 125 new hotel management and franchise agreements by the year’s end, surpassing last year’s deal signings by about 13 percent.

Balan and Barbara Nair have purchased 61 Main St. in Centerbrook for $760,000.

Stephen Press recently received the 2012 Business Sale with Real Estate award from the Greater New Haven Association of Realtors.

Stephen Press recently received the 2012 Business Sale with Real Estate award from the Greater New Haven Association of Realtors.

Stephen Press recently received the 2012 Business Sale with Real Estate award from the Greater New Haven Association of Realtors.

Attorney General George Jepsen and state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Commissioner Daniel Esty were granted an emergency court order today requiring around-the-clock security at the heavily contaminated former English Station power plant in New Haven.

Panera Bread has signed a long-term lease for its first bakery café in Hartford. The restaurant will be on Main Street in State House Square, a 844,000-square-foot office complex in the city’s central business district.

The newest branch of the Flat Black Coffee Co. in Boston\’s Financial District is sleek and comfortable. On the night of its recent celebratory opening event, it was full of well-wishers as its employees busied themselves distributing free coffee and food.