A developer and two investors have proposed knocking down a three-story commercial building on Stratford’s Main Street to make way for a six-story, 60-unit apartment building.
2590 Main LLC plans to raze the 16,554-square-foot building, at 2590 Main St., before erecting the proposed building. The limited liability company is controlled by Stratford developer Will McCallister and Westport investors Joseph Aloysuis Troy III and Anthony Rizza. They bought the building for $2 million from a group that reportedly had approved plans since 2022 to turn the existing building into 38 apartments.
The proposed apartment building would have retail and amenity spaces on the first floor, 14 units on the second to fifth floors and four penthouses on the sixth floor, McCallister said.
He said the building, which would sit on a 0.78-acre parcel, is planned for 60 apartments because it would be located 550 feet from a train station in a transit-oriented district. It would also result in significant tax revenue for the town through the residential sewer use charge applied to each apartment, he said.
“I think Stratford needs it,” he said.
The town’s Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the proposal on May 13.
