SoNo Collection to reopen May 20

Norwalk”™s SoNo Collection has become the fourth and final Fairfield County mall to commit to a May 20 reopening.

The SoNo Collection in Norwalk. Photo by Luis Flores.

SoNo Collection had only been open for five months before Gov. Ned Lamont”™s executive order closed the state”™s shopping centers in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. The property used its Facebook page to announce the reopening with the message: “We”™re opening Wednesday, May 20th and taking the necessary steps to ensure you have a safe and worry-free visit. We”™ve missed you!”

Since its premiere last October, the 700,000-square-foot SoNo Collection has gotten off to a rocky start. The mall greeted the public without most of its retail tenants in place, including anchor store Bloomingdale”™s. A skein of retailers slowly rolled into the mall in the following months, most recently in March with the arrival of Warby Parker.

The county”™s other malls ”“ Danbury Fair Mall, Stamford Town Center and Westfield Trumbull ”“ previously committed to Lamont”™s approval for the limited reopening of some retail businesses on May 20.