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Stop & Shop ready to break ground at Pawcatuck Farms
Developer of Pawcatuck Farms expects to break ground next week on Stop & Shop that will be project’s anchor.
The developer of Pawcatuck Farms on Route 2 expects to break ground next week on the Stop & Shop that will be the project’s anchor.
Wayne Fraser, the project manager for Readco, said the company has already obtained a building permit and expects to break ground for the Stop & Shop on July 23. The company expects to finish work on the store, located in the center that already contains the Regal Cinema, before April 1 of next year.
The Newport Federal bank branch planned for the site is expected to break ground in early September and also be ready to open before April 1.
Tuesday, the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously approved elevations for a McDonald’s to be included in Pawcatuck Farms.
Steven Fredericks, a representative of McDonald’s, described the store design as a “New Englandized” version of the fast-food chain’s prototype. It incorporates gray clapboard and cornices at the top of the building.
Originally, elevations were approved for a Chili’s to be included in Pawcatuck Farms, but the company has backed out of the project.
As a part of the McDonald’s approval Tuesday, the McDonald’s sign on the building itself could not be internally lit, but rather must use halo lighting.
Frederick said the company expected to begin building at the end of August or beginning of September. In other action at the PZC:
Plans for a mixed-use development at 17-19 East Main Street in downtown Mystic passed by a 4-to-1 vote.
Commissioners approved a plan that would include a small deli in the building already on the site, and eight high-end, two-bedroom condominiums at the site of a fatal 2005 fire. Plans call for the 18th-century home currently on the site to be rotated 90 degrees and used to house a deli and one apartment at the top, bringing the total number of residential units to nine.
The residential building that will be located behind the building currently on the site, will feature garages on the first floor, and four residential units each on the second and third floors.
Commissioner Paul Holland was the lone objector. He claimed that the one parking space per residential unit set forth in the plans was not enough, and would lead to major issues.
The PZC unanimously approved plans for a wine bar, Tastings, to be located next to the new Starbucks on Hendel Drive. Tulsa Scott, one of the owners of the newly approved restaurant and bar, said Tastings would offer more than 100 wines and light fare, entrees and sandwiches.
Scott described it as unlike anything in town.
Neighbors worried that the wine bar, combined with the Starbucks and Hampton Inn hotel, did not have enough parking. Town Planner Keith Brynes, however, said the parking threshold was met.