Developer Plans To Build 714 Apartment Units In South End: Report

STAMFORD, CT —Building and Land Technology, the real estate developer and owner with a large presence in Harbor Point, plans to move forward with a plan that would build 714 apartment units in the South End on the former B&S Carting site.

In 2020, plans for the project went through the city's Zoning Board, but it has been held up in court over objections from residents through a petition that was deemed valid by the Board of Representatives, according to the Stamford Advocate.

The petition was created in response to the Planning Board making a change to allow for high-density housing, the Advocate said.

Now after a back-and-forth legal battle, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the signatures were not valid, and the Board of Reps. went outside its authority, the Advocate said.

A BLT spokesperson told Patch that the project is expected to begin "fairly soon." There would be 540 units built on the east side of the site, and 174 units on the west side.

"We are appreciative of the Supreme Court’s decision and plan to move forward and begin work on the approved development immediately. The site, a former trash hauling facility, which has unfortunately remained a vacant brownfield in the center of the South End neighborhood, can finally be reincorporated into the fabric of the community," a BLT spokesperson said in a statement to Patch.

"The project itself, which was designed over several years with substantial community and City input, is long overdue. The new project will bring market and below market rate housing and substantial infrastructure improvements to a historically blighted industrial location and strengthen the heart of the South End," BLT added. "The development of this site will also bring millions of dollars in permit fees and much-needed tax revenue to the City – all of which has been lost while this appeal has been pending. The lost tax revenue alone would likely have been sufficient to support the annual debt service needed to finance an entire new replacement public school."

Read more on the project from the Stamford Advocate.