![]() ![]() ![]() “Hopefully, when people see what’s happening, office tenants, lab sciences and all who are looking for spaces in this area will be showing up saying ‘We need 20,000 square feet.’” ![]() “We don’t have a specific plan past the first phase of this at this moment, but once we start the project on Phase 1, this vision is going to be part of the entire marketing campaign as what we are doing with the mall,” Levin told the PZB. Levin said potential tenants could include a medical center, a technology innovation center, office space, an additional 200-unit residential project and two more plazas. That would give Centennial 450,000 square feet of commercial space to work with. Levin’s announcement made public a second phase that includes demolishing the entire wing of the mall formerly occupied by Sears. Ultimately, the company’s concept is to essentially to turn the mall inside out stores located in a climate-controlled, indoor environment would be moved into a new take on the old concept of downtown shopping districts, along with plenty of public space for good measure. Levin said that part of Centennial’s vision for the property remains intact. That plan - the first phase of the mall’s makeover - called for 300 luxury apartment units. Steven Levin, the chief executive officer of Centennial, recently revealed new details about plans for remaking the Connecticut Post Mall that weren’t made public last year in the run up to the Milford PZB’s rejection of luxury apartments on the former Sears Automotive Center. Milford mall makeoverĪn artist’s rendition of what Centennial’s makeover of the Connecticut Post Mall might look like. This is not just here: It’s happening all over the country.”Īdding rental units to the Westfield Trumbull property will add to “the diversity of housing stock,” she said. “I don’t see regional mall properties surviving without mixing uses. “Malls are struggling and we need to put more people on this property,” Bakalar said. It could take another year or more before the first residents begin moving into the units, she said. The luxury apartment complex, which Bakalar said will include such amenities as a swimming pool and health club, will take 12 to 18 months to build. The last property was purchased in either 2016 or 2017, she said. The apartments will be built on land that once housed single-family homes that the mall bought up over many years, Bakalar said. Of this group, the Westfield Trumbull Mall is furthest along in the process next month, ground will be broken for 260 market-rate rental units on the mall’s periphery along Main Street, according to Rina Bakalar, the town’s economic and community development director. Other shopping malls considering mixed-use development include Meriden Mall Westfarms, which straddles the town line between Farmington and West Hartford Crystal Mall in Waterford Enfield Square Mall and Westfield Trumbull Mall. Signs outside the Norwalk mall show plans for a fitness facility and some variety of medical component. Even the SoNo Collection, which opened in October 2019 and is regarded by some as one of the state’s premiere malls, has plans for mixed-use development. ![]()
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