NORWICH - A long-vacant downtown office building is being renovated and will be returned to use after being sold on March 1.

Gregory Page, a psychotherapist, bought 60 Main St. for $115,000 from its previous owner, Chelsea Properties LLC.

Page said he is renovating the 4,650-square-foot three-floor building built in 1900 to contain five offices. "Our goal is to be open by May," he said.

Page will occupy one of the first-floor offices himself for the practice he has with his mother called Mind Management Services Inc.

"The business was started back in 1991 by my mother," who is also a licensed clinical social worker, Page said.

Page works with addiction and mental health and with many people on probation and parole. "I work with a lot of people with opiates addiction," he said.

Page, who lives in Norwich, said he looked at other parts of the city to locate his office, but wanted to be downtown so it would be near other services that his clients use. "I wanted to make it convenient for my clients," he said.

Eric Reisner, a real estate agent with Lyman Real Estate, who sold the building, said it was originally acquired by Chelsea Properties LLC in 1999 after it had been foreclosed on by the city.

The building was sold in 2006, Reisner said, to Janny Lam, one of many properties the developer acquired throughout downtown Norwich. Lam paid $450,000, according to assessor records. The city foreclosed on it again after taxes weren't paid on it, and Chelsea Properties LLC once more acquired the property for its back taxes in 2013.

Reisner said that around 2004, a pipe burst and the first floor was flooded. Now it has been gutted down to the studs.

The Norwich Community Development Corp. is helping Page get his building reoccupied.

"We bring all relevant city departments to him," NCDC Vice President Jill Fritzsche said. A meeting is planned for Tuesday with representatives of the city's building and zoning departments, the fire marshal and public utilities.

"We try and remove any obstacles in his way," Fritzche said.

The building has an elevator and fire sprinklers. It is next door to a parking garage, where occupants and visitors can park. An ornate wrought-iron railing runs the length of the second floor on the front of the building.

Despite 60 Main St.'s age, it isn't considered historic because of the many changes that have been made to it through the decades.

"I'm looking for tenants," Page said. "I'm looking for other professionals."

"I'm confident that after he's finished doing the work, he'll be able to rent it out completely," Reisner said.