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Middlebury Taxpayers is a group of property owners tracking how the 2025 revaluation and the $224 million for 2 new schools in Region 15 will affect property tax bills in town. With residential property now over 90% of the Grand List, most future cost increases will fall directly on homeowners. We publish the numbers, follow decisions at Town Hall and the Region 15 board, and advocate for a broader commercial tax base to reduce the pressure on residents.

Drubner Equities
Investing across marinas, hotels, and Middlebury industrial.
Over more than three decades in the real estate industry, David Drubner has profitably invested in most real estate sectors. Today all of his active real estate investments are with operating partners like TPG Hotels and Resorts and Atlantic Management. He is focused on acquiring unique assets with intrinsic, enduring value that can be held for the long term: marinas, hotel/resorts, and select development opportunities. These types of assets should be relatively inflation-protected over the long run and provide additional downside protection through the ability to increase value with active, professional management.
Over the years David has developed relationships with restructuring advisors, lenders, and institutional owners, as well as numerous operating partners across sectors and geographies. He expects these relationships to give access to off-market and distressed situations.
After launching Drubner Equities in 2020, he formed a joint venture with TPG Hotels and Resorts Companies to create TPG Marinas. To date they have acquired 8 marinas, three of which are hotel/resort properties, all in high barrier-to-entry markets in New England, New York, and Coastal Georgia.
He is also pursuing a hotel strategy with TPG Hotels and Resorts, acquiring independent boutique hotels in high-barrier-to-entry, drive-to-destination markets such as coastal New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Carolinas, and Florida.
He is also actively involved in industrial development, specifically in Middlebury, CT. He has partnered with Atlantic Management, a best-in-class industrial property owner/developer based in Boston, MA. They are currently partners in Southford Park, the former Timex Headquarters, where they have approval for a 670,000 square foot warehouse development (currently in the Appellate legal process). They have also received full approvals and sustained several appeals on a 171,000 square foot warehouse project in Middlebury at 1535 Straits Turnpike.

Atlantic Management
50+ years of New England real estate, six million square feet.
Investing successfully requires an in-depth understanding of the market’s complexities, an ability to identify and track trends, the capacity to utilize leverage effectively, and a thorough knowledge of local and regional markets. In short, it requires experience and skill, the very same that Atlantic Management Corporation has been offering its Partners for more than 40 years.
The company was formed in 1972 to provide investors with long-term capital growth through conservatively structured real estate investments. Since its inception, Atlantic Management has remained committed to that goal for its Partners. The willingness to stay flexible but focused has resulted in the identification, acquisition, and redevelopment of properties throughout New England. Atlantic Management today owns and manages a portfolio of over 6 million square feet across the region.
Atlantic Management has a proven track record of performance, demonstrating:
- The expertise necessary to acquire and manage quality investment real estate.
- Strong relationships with both the brokerage community and financial lending institutions.
- An awareness of the market’s direction for formulating future real estate investment strategies and opportunities.
- An entrepreneurial spirit, forever exploring new ways to construct economically sound real estate investments.
Murtha Enterprises / Route 188 LLC
Industrial property in Beacon Falls and Middlebury.
Murtha Enterprises owns and manages industrial properties in Beacon Falls. Its entity Route 188 LLC owns 671 Southford Road, a large LI-200 development site in Middlebury on Southford and Christian Roads.
Collectively, these groups are among the biggest taxpayers in Middlebury, Connecticut.