A developer of luxury housing has filed a plan with the town of Westport to build a 30-unit residential development on the former site of the Connecticut Humane Society.
455 Post Road Holdings LLC, controlled by Westport developer Joseph Feinleib, submitted a proposal to the Planning and Zoning Department calling for two 2½-story buildings on the 1.76-acre property at 455 Post Road. The plan includes demolishing the 7,195-square-foot former Connecticut Humane Society building and a 1,095-square-foot outbuilding.
Feinleib is the founder of Coastal Luxury Homes, which has developed three other luxury residential projects in Westport and Norwalk.
“We’re excited to be presenting to the town. We’ve worked very hard on this plan,” Feinleib told the Hartford Business Journal. “It’s going to be 30 luxury rentals in an ideal location.”
Under the proposal, one building would contain 25 apartments, while the other would house five townhomes, he said. Together, the buildings would total 64,327 square feet, according to project plans.
The development would include nine one-bedroom units, nine two-bedroom units and 12 three-bedroom units. Six units — two each with one bedroom, two bedrooms and three bedrooms — would be designated as affordable housing.
Project documents describe the design as drawing from traditional New England architecture while incorporating a modern aesthetic.
“Rooted in the setting of coastal New England, the design distills familiar regional forms into a minimal, contemporary composition of Westport,” the plans state. “Located just off the Post Road (Route 1), between East Main Street and Crescent Park Road, the buildings are an abstract and simplified representation of the traditional New England residential vernacular.”
Feinleib bought the property in late July for $3.5 million after the Connecticut Humane Society moved its headquarters to Wilton earlier that month.
