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Developer Fine Tunes $250 Mil Train-Station Project

FAIRFIELD, CT-The developer of a proposed $250 million office/hotel development here has decided to scrap architectural drawings and bring in a bulldozer to level a former manufacturing plant.

By John Jordan | Updated on September 10, 2001

FAIRFIELD, CT-The developer of a proposed $250-million project that will entail 1.36 million sf of new development and a new Metro North Train station has reconfigured some of the fine points of the plan to allow greater flexibility to respond to future market demand.

Kurt Wittek, managing director of Black Rock Realty LLC, says that it has decided to demolish all of the existing buildings at the 21 Black Rock Turnpike site, which totals 35.5 acres. Wittek notes that the firm will demolish all three existing buildings on the property including a 225,000 sf former Bullard’s foundry. Black Rock Realty, a joint venture of Wittek and Rugby Realty Co., of Teterboro, NJ, had planned to redevelop the Bullard’s property into a 450,000-sf office building. The joint venture purchased the property in January of this year from UPS Corp., for $5.9 million. The Bullard’s foundry building has been vacant for the past 16 years.

“The foundry building as well as the rest of the buildings on the property will be demolished,” Wittek says. “The (original) plan did not allow us the flexibility we might need.”

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