For our client, AMS Acquisitions, Redniss & Mead led the project through the land use entitlement process, including applications and presentations to the Water Pollution Control Authority, Architectural Review Board, Inland Wetlands Commission, and Planning & Zoning Commission. We successfully managed the client’s team of consultants and secured the local approvals, enabling the construction of 208 apartments on the 4.75-acre site.

Beinfield Architecture created a unique design that came to be known as the ‘jewel box’, a smaller timber and glass amenity building at the front of the site which evokes a familiar New England shape and style and provides the curb appeal screening the larger building behind it.

We worked closely with the WPCA to prove available sewer capacity, demonstrated protection of the Norwalk River and enhancements to its riparian buffer to IWC, and documented compliance with floodplain management and Special Permit criteria to PZC.