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Hopes Diminish for a Supermarket in North Street Shopping Center

View of Back Country Market and Café

Up in Banksville, the Back Country Market & Cafe has opened! The owners of the renovated North Street Shopping Center still can’t find a supermarket to fill the former IGA space. They sought a P&Z zoning change that would increase FAR and add options for types of businesses for the space. Continue Reading →

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P&Z: Proposed Text Amendment to CGIO Zone Could Signal Major Downtown Redevelopment

A proposed text amendment to the CGIO zone might make possible a 70 unit residential development with significant public parking underground, a public park at the corner of Lewis and Benedict Place, indoor community space for meetings and a pedestrian connector to Greenwich Ave. Continue Reading →

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New Plan for Downtown Darien Redevelopment Project: Less High, Less Deep, Less Large, Yet With Bigger Footprint

One of the conceptual drawings in the new plan, showing what part of the project could look like. These buildings mostly have three stories and pitched roofs above them.

In Darien, the big downtown redevelopment proposal for Corbin Drive and the Post Road, with its huge underground parking garage, some high buildings and a showcase “Village Green” park in the center of town, is being scrapped by the developer.

The new proposal, being presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday night: Much more above-ground parking — made more discreet behind buildings and along the highway — one building near the highway that’s four stories high, and a winding, green public space that snakes into the project to take the place of the larger “Village Green” idea. Continue Reading →

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