The Greenwich Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-1 to approve a proposal to demolish a 217-unit nursing home and replace it with a 170-unit assisted-living facility under the state’s 8-30g affordable housing statute.
Mordechai Blass and Moshe Berstein, New York City-based property owners doing business as Greenwich Woods Realty LLC and Eagleview Holdings LLC, plan to raze the Greenwich Woods Health Care Center at 1165 King St. to make way for a four-story apartment building that would include 51 affordable units, according to a town application.
Parking on the 15.9-acre site would increase from 119 spaces to 294 spaces. The affordable units, reserved for residents earning between 30% and 80% of the state’s median income, would be spread across one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments on all four floors.
The Greenwich Affordable Housing Trust Fund approved a $100,000 loan for the project, which would feature amenities including a theater, gym, indoor pool, pickleball courts, playground, walking paths and a roof deck, the application said.
The town’s Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency has already approved the environmental plan, which calls for renovating two stormwater retention basins, relocating and enlarging a wetlands area, and planting more than 400 trees.
In December 2023, the commission gave preliminary approval to an earlier 8-30g proposal for a five-story, 215-unit building on the site. However, a sewer agreement with Westchester County limits daily discharge to 50,000 gallons through 2066, prompting the owners to reduce the project to 170 units, according to the filing.
