The owner of a half-acre Pine Street lot on which a dry cleaning business stood for more than 50 years is razing the original structure and creating a new retail marketplace there that will offer gourmet, specialty food items.
A new artisanal marketplace is planned for 75 Pine St. Here’s the space, with the old dry cleaners building slated for demolition, on Feb. 10, 2015. Credit: Michael Dinan
Peter Lane of NCLC said 75 Pine St., formerly site of New Canaan Cleaners, by this fall will feature a new building in which more than one artisan has space to create and sell freshly made edibles under a “Grand Central marketplace”-style concessioner model.
“We are going bring in food purveyors and create a little marketplace out of it, so we’re excited about it,” said Peter Lane of NCLC.
“We would love to get a butcher, a baker and a cheese maker—a marketplace of artisans creating specialty foods. It [the space] is kind of unique because each entity will have its own kitchen, cook its own food and then have counter space out front and share some common space. There will be a little seating and a little fireplace inside, so it’s going to be a kind of event space too.”
An application to demolish the 2,352-square-foot, 57-year-old cleaners building was filed Jan. 20 with the town. Lane said he expects remediation on the soil to take about four weeks after it’s down. The new structure—1.5 stories high with a metal roof and in the style of an old train station building, Lane said—is designed to fit into the footprint of the cleaners. Renderings of the proposed new structure are not yet available, he said.
Here’s where 75 Pine St. is:
Craft Butchery from Westport opening another shop here would be a dream.
Sounds like a great addition, but nothing can beat versatile, service oriented Walter Stewart’s with their fresh local offerings. Want something special? Just ask.