Demolition and site work has begun on a six-acre Bloomfield tract near the town center for a 215-unit luxury apartment community.
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Demolition and site work has begun on a six-acre Bloomfield tract near the town center for a 215-unit luxury apartment community.
Currently known as 700 Bloomfield Ave., the studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units will be spread among several four- and five-story buildings. Rent for the units, averaging about 893 square feet, will run about $1,400 monthly, said Ronald Garner, project manager for Fairfield developer Post Road Residential.
Once the last of a half-dozen houses has been razed, Milford, Mass., contractor Plumb House Inc. will begin construction right away, with the first completed units due for initial occupancy in Aug. 2017, and totally completed six months later, Garner said.
Norwalk's Beinfield Architecture P.C. designed the community to feature such amenities as a 16,000-square-foot clubhouse, with media room, lounge and fitness center, he said. Outdoors, an interior courtyard will have a swimming pool and other recreational attractions.
On-site parking will accommodate 320 vehicles, 24 of which will be covered by carports, Garner said.
The tract is sandwiched between Jerome and Tunxis avenues, less than a quarter mile from the town green, police station and a pair of retail plazas fronting Park Avenue.
Post Road was drawn to Bloomfield because of its 35-acre development district, created to encourage new construction and rehabilitation of properties and acreage within the quadrant, Garner said.
“The town has been a peach to work with,'' he said.
Although this is Post Road's first Hartford region development, it has built or is building apartments in other corners of the state. In Stamford, it opened a few years ago the 75 Tresser luxury apartments, 75 Tresser Blvd.
In New Haven, it's close to finishing by November the 235-unit luxury Corsair Apartments, 1050 State St., the first 60 or so of which are already occupied, Garner said.
– Gregory Seay
