Looks good. Crazy that an addition to a 1980s building has to go before the landmarks commission, the planning commission, and the zoning board though
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High Ridge Park
full article here: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/stamford-life-time-fitness-appeal-denial-20173091.php
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1011 High Ridge Road
full story: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/stamford-high-ridge-apartments-nuvance-nuovo-20175694.php
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full story: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/stamford-university-zone-uconn-20194552.php
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update on 70 Seaview Avenue
full story: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/seaview-house-marina-stamford-20204135.php
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Update:
Full story here: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/stamford-university-of-connecticut-housing-20213660.php
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120 Hamilton Avenue
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74 broad street https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/burlington-coat-factory-stamford-20258817.php
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In the 1960s, Stamford, Conn. demolished and rebuilt its old downtown, the remnants of its manufacturing base giving way to white-collar corporate headquarters fleeing Manhattan. Over the last several decades, its small population has grown significantly, with the city making up 40% of Connecticut’s population growth between 2000 and 2020. Unlike similar cities in the region, Stamford has allowed for significant development of multifamily housing. Today, its commercial core is roughly evenly split between housing and offices, and the city has recently become majority-renter, with most of its housing units in multifamily buildings.
Stamford is now home to companies ranging from World Wrestling Entertainment to seven Fortune 1000 members, including Charter Communications, Pitney Bowes, and United Rentals. Its core industries are white-collar services such as education, health care, and professional, scientific, management, and administrative services. There are 380 office buildings in the city, containing 19.9 million square feet of space, which is enough space for every man, woman, and child who lives in Stamford to have a ~200 square foot office. This is a remarkable amount of inventory considering that Stamford is in the same metropolitan area as the largest city in Connecticut, Bridgeport—a city that is 9% bigger than Stamford by residential population but contains 75% less office space.
Office vacancy rates in the Stamford commercial core have consistently exceeded regional vacancy over the past decade, with an increase from 15% to 21% in the commercial core between 2015 and 2017 and another spike to 22% in 2023 (Figure 6). These vacancy increases have primarily been driven by tenants leaving Class B and C buildings, while Class A buildings (which make up a small portion of the office stock) have had lower vacancy rates. While citywide vacancy rates appear to be continuing to climb, vacancy rates in the commercial core have mostly stabilized around 22% for the past two years—higher than the 19% national average office vacancy rate in Q3 2024.
Despite the dominance of detached single-family homes across the city’s land footprint, 59% of Stamford’s housing units are now in multi-unit structures. This is a recent trend: 40% of the multifamily rental market has been built since 2010, and as of 2022, Stamford is, for the first time, a majority-renter city (51% of households). Much of the new development occurred in Harbor Point, which was previously less densely built than the center of downtown. A whopping 20% of Stamford’s population lives in the commercial core; in a typical U.S. city, this share is between 1% and 5%.
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30 Oak Street
The 16 apartments were previously built in an adjacent building in Bedford Street. This is a proposal to convert an adjoining largely vacant building in Oak Street into 60 apartments.
https://www.stamfordct.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/42528/638809898194530000
The overall property is approximately 1.37± acres with frontage on Oak Street and Bedford Street. The subject . . . parcel is improved with a 53,388±SF office building, originally constructed in 1980. The building is approximately 85% vacant, with the few remaining leases set to expire by the end of the year.
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Went past by this on the train yesterday and the area looks very different
909 Washington Boulevard
A prominent developer plans to expand a 94-room luxury boutique hotel in Stamford into the remaining portion of an approximately 86,000-square-foot building that once housed the former Stamford Family YMCA.
In 2008, Stamford’s RMS Cos. paid $4.65 million for an eight-story, 43,635-square-foot portion of the building, at 909 Washington Blvd., that the YMCA ran as a 97-room hotel since 1974, according to property records.
RMS refurbished the space into a 94-room Hotel Zero Degrees, which debuted in 2009 and operated until the end of 2019. RMS refurbished the hotel and rebranded it The Lloyd, which debuted in August 2020.
Last week, RMS bought the remaining two-story, 42,653 square feet from the Stamford Family YMCA for $3 million to make room for the hotel expansion, CEO Randy Salvatore told the Hartford Business Journal.
The Stamford Family YMCA was founded in 1868, but closed in March 2024.
The hotel expansion will add 52 rooms and also include a restaurant, 4,500 square feet of meeting space and an outdoor courtyard, said Brandon Salvatore, RMS’ director of hospitality.
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Another boxed McAprtments. I wish they would pay more attention to the architecture in Stamford.
1145 High Ridge Road
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