Bogner's Applies For A New Location In Manchester

MANCHESTER, CT — It appears a staple of the Manchester business community has settled on a new location.

Bogner Quality Meats has submitted a special exception detailed plan to the Manchester Planning and Zoning Commission for a meat market and butcher shop at 320 Middle Turnpike West. The 7,100-square-foot building formerly housed A Webster Bank branch.

Bogner's, which has had a presence in Manchester for more than a half-century, has ben looking for a new retail location since the summer, when Highland Park Market bought the longtime Bogner's building at 349 Wetherell St. for $1.25 million. Bogner's had a year to find a new place.

Webster Bank moved out of the location in 2017.

William Bogner Sr. and his wife, Helen, came to the United States and New York from Italy in 1925. Bogner began working for Hebrew National and other sausage facilities and eventually moved to Manchester Helen and sons William Jr, and Donald.

He built a slaughter house by hand and began selling fresh beef and his now-famous sausages to local meat processors and distributors.

In 1965, his sons built their meat processing plant on Wetherell Street Manchester and used their father's recipes to make sausage products still made today.

Bogner's also has a location in Vernon at 1084 Hartford Turnpike.