Friday, July 19, 2013

The Downes Building is coming down

In another blow to what's left of Stamford's pre-urban renewal architecture, the Downes Building on Atlantic Street is slated for demolition.








As you can see on the demolition notice, the new building will be "mixed-use," which probably means that the ground floor will be retail and the upper floors will be residential.  Based on recent trends, I figure the ground floor will eventually house:
- a bank
- a Starbucks
- a CVS

The upper-floor apartments will most likely be rented out to:
- hedge funders
- financial workers in blue shirts and khakis
- UBSers
- RBSers
- All of the above


On the bright side, at least Chinese Mirch is safe.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

What happened to the building next to Grand on Bank Street? There was a restaurant on ground floor undergoing a very long renovation, and then one day the whole building was gone.

Streets of Stamford said...

That's a good question - I have no idea what happened there. I went downtown recently and discovered the same excavation site. I'll look into it and see if I can find anything.

George said...

the top of the building will not be residential but hotel. Why don't you do some research instead of spouting nonsense like you do?

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/New-hotels-coming-to-Danbury-Stamford-4520333.php

Streets of Stamford said...

A) Because spouting nonsense is what I'm good at, and B) because it was a joke! Lighten up!!