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Two RTM Districts Meet Thursday to Learn About, Discuss Proposed Great Island Purchase

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To the editor,

Members of the Representative Town Meeting District II and District IV will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 23 in Town Hall Auditorium to learn more about and discuss the proposed Great Island purchase. First Selectman Monica McNally and Board of Finance Chair James Palen, as well as members of the Board of Selectmen and Board of Finance will be on hand to provide information and answer questions. Great Island is in RTM District II and borders neighborhoods in District IV. The meeting will be of particular interest to RTM representatives and residents of these two Districts but is open to the community. Clara Sartori

Chair , RTM District II

Real Estate
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Town to Enter Negotiations to Buy 60-Acre Shoreline Estate, Now on Market for $100 Million

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Darien’s town government will enter negotiations to buy the 60-acre shoreline estate on Long Neck Point peninsula, one of the largest pieces of private land in lower Fairfield County, the Board of Selectmen unanimously decided Monday night. The Great Island estate, owned for more than a century by the Ziegler family and now the Steinkraus family, went on sale in 2016, with an asking price of $175 million, now reduced to $100 million. The Board of Selectmen, after meeting in executive session for about an hour, authorized First Selectman Monica McNally to enter into negotiations for the property. McNally said the board has discussed the value of the land and potential uses the town might have for it. McNally described the tract as “the last and best property of its kind that is available on the East Coast of the United States.”