A Google Map showing the location of the property.
SEYMOUR — The property that housed the former Seymour Lumber & Supply Co. at the corner of Route 67 and Bank Street has sold for $575,000.
The new owner is Adib Chouiki of Bank Street, LLC, in Norwalk. According to town land records, the one-acre site has an appraised value of $202,100. Chouiki owns several gas stations, including a Sunoco Gas station in Norwalk.
The owner has not yet submitted any applications or site plans to the town for what he plans to do there. The land has sat vacant since 2014, when the Seymour Lumber buildings were demolished.
The Valley Indy left a voicemail to Chouiki, which had not been returned as of Thursday (March 14).
The sale of the property, previously owned by the Tkacz family, occurred last December.
Seymour’s economic development consultant Sheila O’Malley said Chouiki had expressed interest in building a gas station there. O’Malley said she told Chouiki that a gas station would not be a good fit. O’Malley said the state Department of Transportation (DOT) had indicated taking a right-turn out of the site onto Route 67 would not be feasible, due to it being a high-traffic intersection.
O’Malley noted that since the property is on a state-owned road, anything proposed there would require DOT approval, in addition to approval from town land-use boards.
The property is currently zoned C‑2, or commercial, which typically permits a range of commercial, office and retail uses.
O’Malley said she’d like to see a mixed-use, multi-story building go there.
“I’d like to see something with retail on the bottom and residential on the top,” O’Malley said.
The town, last year, had an architectural rendering created of what the site could look like with a mixed-use, multi-story building when they were talking with the Tkacz family about its future potential.
First Selectwoman Annmarie Drugonis said the Tkacz family had shown renderings to their realtor, but the property was only generating interest from gas station owners.
