74 Broad Street
It’s time to talk about the Caldor lot. From about the mid-1960s to when Caldor went bankrupt in 1999, there was a Caldor discount store at Broad & Summer, one of the main corners in downtown Stamford. In 2004, a Burlington Coat Factory moved into the space.
The space includes a parking garage (including on the roof) and loading docks, as can be seen in this photo:
The building is roughly square, with the loading dock in an appendage (panhandle) extending to the northeast.
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Now a report has come out that Burlington will open a store at the old Bed Bath & Beyond space in Ridgeway Shopping Center, about a mile north of downtown.
I hope this means Burlington will vacate its space at 74 Broad Street. This would be a great opportunity to demolish the old largely windowless retail building and replace it with something that fits better into this prominent corner, such as high-density residential with ground-level retail.