A New Jersey-based developer has unveiled plans for a large housing project near Hartford, Connecticut.
The Silverman Group has proposed a 600-unit rental development — named The Ridge at Talcott Mountain South — in Simsbury, Connecticut, the Hartford Courant reported. The Ridge will have 488 one- and two-bedroom apartments. The rest of the development will be duplex units and one-family houses ranging from 2,300 to 2,900 square feet.
The developers have designated about 60 units as affordable housing.
In the complex, Silverman plans to build parking for over 1,200 cars, a 5,500-square-foot clubhouse, a gym, game room, dog wash station and other amenities.
Silverman has an existing development next door to the proposed one. Called The Ridge at Talcott Mountain, it was previously part of the 172-acre campus of The Hartford, a leading insurance company, before it sold the site in 2013. The new development will occupy an abandoned parking lot.
Silverman is seeking permission from the town to exceed a current 50-foot height restriction and reduce the width of a trail that runs along the road in certain areas. The community will be cohesive and walkable, according to the company, integrating various housing types while prioritizing the preservation of the natural landscape and the reduction of stormwater runoff.
Simsbury’s Zoning Commission will hold a hearing about the project on Dec. 18. Silverman has laid out an ambitious timeline for completion, with design work and permitting slated for 2024, followed by construction starting in 2024 and anticipated completion by mid-2026.
The proposal also emphasizes the revitalization of the site as a significant component of Simsbury’s economic landscape.
Apartments have been springing up in the area. In West Hartford earlier this year, developers submitted plans to turn two high-profile parcels into mixed-use, multi-family complexes with nearly 700 units combined.
The first plan is for the 57-acre site of the former University of Connecticut campus, whose owner, West Hartford 1, led by investor and developer Domenic Carpionato, plans to build a 492-apartment, mixed-use “neighborhood village,” We-Ha.com reports.
West Hartford 1’s plans, which are now before the town’s Design Review Advisory Committee, call for 392 of the 492 apartments to be in one of five, five-story buildings on the 24-acre east side of the property, the outlet reported. The other 100 units will be in eight, three-story mixed-use buildings on the 33-acre west side of the property, along with boutique retailers, restaurants, a medical office, a spa, and a neighborhood market.
Separately, a developer paid $10.6 million for the 4-acre site of the former Children’s Museum in West Hartford, with an aim to construct a 172-unit luxury apartment complex, the Hartford Courant reported.
New York-based Continental Properties paid $2.7 million per acre for the parcel at 950 Troutbrook Drive. Colliers International in Hartford represented the seller, Kingswood Oxford, in the deal.
Continental plans to build a six-story building with two- and three-bedroom apartments, with amenities including an outdoor pool, dog park, co-working space and rooftop lounge.
— Ted Glanzer