DANBURY – An industrial stretch that hugs the southern perimeter of Danbury Airport is turning into a distinct segment for the high-end automotive market on town’s booming west facet.
From a 50,000-square-foot storage and restoration middle for luxurious automobiles anticipated to be the most important in Fairfield County when it opens within the spring, to a movie director’s firm that lately started producing $400,000 sports activities automobiles within the shadows of Runway 26, the conversion of Miry Brook and Sugar Hole roads right into a high-end auto hall is seen by leaders because the type of financial growth Danbury welcomes.
“Name it increasing or exploding or no matter adjective you need to use, however there’s super curiosity in business growth on the west facet,” stated Paul Rotello, the Metropolis Council’s Democratic Majority Chief. “It’s nice for enterprise.”
The newest proof of the rising high-end auto area of interest on the jap and southern borders of Danbury Airport got here in the summertime, when a high-end auto seller received zoning approvals to construct a Mercedes-Benz dealership on the nook of Miry Brook and Sugar Hole roads. The hall is already residence to Porsche and Audi dealerships, in addition to high-end auto garages and storage services resembling Speedsport Tuning and Collector Automotive Companies.
“That finish of Danbury has extra high-end automobiles saved than you possibly can think about,” stated Neil Marcus, a land use lawyer who has represented builders within the hall. “It has grow to be a mecca for top finish autos – for automotive storage and meeting and gross sales and restoration.”
In the meantime, different automotive sellers are kicking the hall’s tires. At the least one seller is drawing up blueprints for the previous Sports activities Authority constructing on Sugar Hole Highway, stated Roger Palanzo, Danbury’s financial growth director, throughout a gathering earlier this month.
It stays to be seen whether or not the seller with plans for the nook of Miry Brook and Sugar Hole roads will win approvals from Danbury’s Environmental Affect Fee and Planning Fee, together with approval from the Federal Aviation Administration.
As of Monday, Curry had not submitted blueprints to town’s Planning Division.
Curry Automotive plans to “redevelop a extremely seen web site to a excessive customary with new Mercedes-Benz gross sales and repair middle,” in response to the seller’s lawyer, Meaghan Miles.
A part of the proposal that would definitely make the dealership seen requires 87 spots for “rooftop stock parking and a second-floor car show.”
The thought, in response to Curry Automotive, is to preserve the quantity of environmentally delicate land close to the Kissen Brook that must be paved for parking by utilizing the roof floor. The applicant’s lawyer Miles known as it “a inventive answer to parking and storage.”
Plans name for clearing the concrete constructing, the storage container, and the trailers on the two.5-acre web site, which is used to park development gear and stockpile soil and gravel.
Rotello stated he was impressed up to a degree.
“They had been all enthusiastic about cleansing up a nook that’s a gateway to Danbury however then they confirmed us the renderings with the parking on the roof,” Rotello stated. “Vehicles on the roof. I assume that is how we roll in Danbury now.”
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