DANBURY – Metropolis planners have accepted blueprints for a $7 million Mercedes-Benz showroom and provider middle at the gateway of an rising significant-end car corridor on the city’s west side.
“We have certainly talked over it at duration,” mentioned Arnold Finaldi, chairman of the city’s Scheduling Commission, soon in advance of the board authorized the dealership last week. “Good luck to the applicant with your project.”
The approval implies Curry Automotive can start out get the job done to distinct a 2.5-acre construction elements storage large amount at Miry Brook and Sugar Hollow roads — a property city leaders have described as a gateway for a corridor of substantial-conclude automotive utilizes that stretches from the eastern border of the Danbury Truthful shopping mall south together the perimeter of Danbury Municipal Airport.
“I want to be there the day they knock down that concrete bunker on the web-site,” Finaldi said 50 percent-seriously soon after the acceptance vote on Wednesday, referring to the extremely seen web page that some leaders regarded an eyesore.
“I experienced to glance at that thing each individual morning five or six times a 7 days for 16 decades and I’m unwell of it,” Finaldi ongoing with a great-natured smile. “So I want to be invited there. Make a be aware of it. Continue to keep it off the history but I want to be invited. I want to be there.”
An attorney who has represented Curry Automotive through the very last year of land use approvals agreed.
“I’ll send you a message, Arnie,” Meaghan Miles replied at Wednesday’s assembly.
Curry Automotive, which programs to transfer its Mercedes-Benz dealership from Federal Street on the city’s east finish to the new gateway area, is the most recent significant-stop car enterprise to commit in the west aspect.
North American Motor Automobile, a 50,000-square-foot customized garage and luxurious auto storage facility that opened lately a single-quarter mile south on Miry Brook Street, payments by itself as the largest restoration facility of its type in Fairfield County. It joins other superior close-garages and storage facilities such as Speedsport Tuning and Collector Auto Solutions, as well as a movie director’s corporation that a short while ago began creating $450,000 sports autos in the shadows of Runway 26.
North of the new Mercedes-Benz web page, Danbury approved plans in March by a Nissan-Infiniti dealership to acquire above an vacant retail developing on Sugar Hollow Highway, which is now house to Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen dealerships.
As significantly as Mercedes-Benz seemed like a good fit for the community, it experienced to obvious handful of hurdles such as zoning variances, wetland approvals, Federal Aviation Administration clearance and web page program acceptance.
“We never want vehicles parking all around the position apart from as proven on the accepted system,” said Jennifer Emminger, the city’s deputy arranging director, all through Wednesday’s assembly. “They require to get a place approval for the new motor vehicle dealer’s license from the Zoning Commission, so there is a further action.”
Emminger is referring to options by Curry for a 31,000-square foot-dealership with rooftop parking on the next floor and 22 service bays.
Due to the fact the dealership is envisioned to be a big targeted visitors generator, incorporating 850 car or truck trips to the region on an common weekday and 1,600 vehicle and truck trips on an regular Saturday, Danbury’s traffic engineer questioned Curry to obtain and install movie digital camera detection machines at a few close by intersections “to make improvements to targeted traffic administration and site visitors sign operations at … intersections linked with the proposed improvement.”
In its place, Curry made available the metropolis $50,000 to acquire and set up the devices.
In the close, planners reported their problems about site visitors have been resolved.
“I just want to say job perfectly carried out for creating all all those agreements,” Arranging Commissioner Helen Hoffstaetter instructed Emminger at Wednesday’s conference.
[email protected] 203-731-3342