Mixed-use medical and residential project coming to downtown New Canaan

Avison Young”™s Fairfield/Westchester office has been named the exclusive leasing agent for the newly unveiled New Canaan Medical Arts Center at 23 Vitti St. in New Canaan. The property is being developed by CH Vitti Street Associates LLC, an affiliate of New Canaan-based national real estate investor Cambridge Hanover, and Collins Enterprises of Greenwich.

Avison Young Principal Sean P. McDonnell and Associate Eva Kornreich will market the new development, which will begin construction this month and is projected to be completed in the spring of 2018. Do H. Chung & Partners is the project architect.

The new, two-story, 9,000-square-foot medical center will be built along the parcel”™s 121 feet of frontage, with a public courtyard along Vitti Street for the use of patients and the community. The commercial portion of the project includes 2,000 square feet of medical space on the first floor and 7,000 square feet on the second floor, which can be subdivided. The facility will include automated doors, medical grade HVAC system with HEPA filtration, high ceilings, parking and full-service management and building security.

The project also includes a luxury residential component, consisting of eight apartments, to be developed as a separate building on the site. Each use will have its own distinct entrance, identity, and character, and will be separated by a highly-landscaped parking area and residential pathways.

The mixed-use project is in line with the town of New Canaan”™s new master plan for the Cross and Vitti Streets commercial district, which is designed to improve the streetscape, increase shared parking and permit more mixed-use commercial and residential building development.

Existing structures on the half-acre-plus, nearly 25,000-square-foot site, including two long-vacant commercial buildings, will be demolished to make way for the project. CH Vitti Street Associates LLC acquired the property in February 2016 for $1.525 million in a deal arranged by Principal and Managing Director Sean Cahill of Avison Young”™s Fairfield/Westchester office.