Monday’s (Nov. 25) regular meeting of Ansonia’s Planning and Zoning Commission — at which the owner of the former Farrel Corp. buildings downtown was scheduled to have an “informal discussion” about the properties’ development — has been canceled.
A memo from the commission’s secretary filed at in the Town and City Clerk’s office at 8:49 a.m. Monday said the meeting had been canceled.
The memo gave no date for a rescheduled meeting. The commission’s next regular meeting will be Dec. 30, according to the city’s website.
Last week a real estate agent representing Washington Management, LLC — the company which bought the former Farrel Corp. properties downtown — said an architect would be showing some of the plans for the redevelopment to the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission Monday as part of an “informal discussion” to discuss any requirements, regulations, or input PZC members have.
But on Monday the architect involved in the project, Kevin Pellon, of Port Chester, NY-based DSB+ architects, told the Valley Indy he is out of the country and asked to be removed from the PZC’s agenda.
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In a message to the Valley Indy Pellon said plans for the properties would be unveiled soon.
Many officials and residents see the 10 acres of former Farrel Corp. land downtown as a key to the area’s redevelopment.
Though business activity has picked up in many storefronts downtown, the Farrel Corp. properties and others — like the Ansonia Technology Park and Palmer Building — form a core of former industrial properties that have been stagnant for years.
The rehabilitation and/or redevelopment of those properties was identified by a consultant hired by the city as a key to growing the city’s tax base in a report earlier this year.