First Selectman: Traditional Buildings, Not Concrete Monoliths, When Corbin District Is Completed

The massive concrete blocks constructed just off the Post Road near Exit 11 are only the cores of future buildings and not what people will see when the project is done, First Selectman Jon Zagrodzky said Friday in his fortnightly column.

Zagrodzky said he’d been called by people concerned about whether the new buildings will look like the concrete monoliths. In the Town of Darien Newsletter, emailed on Friday, March 23, Zagrodzky passed on some of the information he recently received from the site’s developer, David Genovese, principal of Baywater Properties.

(Darienite.com also has an article on the other part of the column, about the recent Superintendent’s Conversation meeting on the topic of bigotry and how to counter it.)

Here’s the full (brief) text of the part of Zagrodzky’s column on the construction site, along with all the pictures accompanying it:

I have received a number of calls about the concrete monoliths going up at the Corbin II project downtown. Rest assured, what you’re seeing is not the final form of this transformative development! It’s just the inner core of what will be surrounded soon by retail and apartments.

I had lunch with David Genovese this past week, and he shared these renditions from the Baywater website. The end result will be amazing — stay tuned!