A redevelopment plan to expand a 50-year-old, senior-housing community in West Hartford is pending before town planners.
The nonprofit owner of the 213-unit West Hartford Fellowship Housing at 20 Starkel Road, adjacent to Big Y World Class Market and the town senior center, plans to tear down all but one of 24 buildings on the 8-acre site, officials say.
The landlord would add six additional multi-story buildings with 264 new units, with the one remaining building containing 44 units. In total, the development would contain 308 mostly new or remodeled studio and one-bedroom units, project plans show.
Project executive Mark S. Garilli, of Construction Solutions Group LLC, the landlord’s West Hartford representative, said a fixed pricetag and project financing have yet to be procured.
Pending all town building and wetlands approvals and permits, phased construction would begin next spring and take three to five years to complete, Garilli said.
Fellowship Housing residents would be temporarily housed elsewhere during construction, he said.
Paul B. Bailey Architect LLC of New Haven is project designer, with New Britain’s The Millennium Group as development consultant. A contractor has yet to be chosen.
