[CPEO-BIF] Handy & Harman factory property, Fairfield, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Developer disappointed by rejection

By GENEVIEVE REILLY
Connecticut Post
August 14, 2008

FAIRFIELD - Felix Charney is frustrated and disappointed.

Since buying the former Handy & Harman factory property at 1770 Kings 
Highway nearly five years ago, his company, Summit Development, has 
devoted time and money to clean up the industrial brownfield and prepare 
it for commercial redevelopment.

Now, that work is in limbo.

The Town Plan and Zoning Commission this week turned down Charney's 
application to change the zone classification for the property from 
Designed Industrial District to Designed Commercial District.

In addition to the zone change, Charney sought a special permit to build 
a Whole Foods store and two other retail buildings on the site, which 
abuts a Home Depot.


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http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_10208602

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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