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GGP greenlighted for hotel-less SoNo Collection
Updated, 5 p.m., clarification; 1:22 a.m.: Full story. NORWALK, Conn. – A deal specifying a $3.5 million payment to Norwalk, in lieu of a hotel atop The SoNo Collection, was approved Tuesday by the Common Council. The vote to accept the terms that would allow GGP to build its mall without a hotel, hammered out…
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GGP’s hotel-less mall hitting ‘homestretch’
Correction, 7:31 p.m.: GGP originally said construction would begin in 2015. NORWALK, Conn. – Norwalk could be figuring out a correct economic metric to value to its loss of a hotel right off Interstate 95, Deb Goldstein said. GGP really could walk and abandon its site if the numbers don’t work, Common Council member Michael…
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Norwalk – a sliver, anyway – weighs in on The SoNo Collection
NORWALK, Conn. — The debate continued Tuesday, with three GGP supporters giving one point of view to the Common Council, and a persistent critic offering rebuttals. “It’s boggles my mind that we have to have more of these meetings,” mall supporter Wini Mola said, at the first public hearing on GGP’s request to modify the…
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Norwalk political notes: A candidate; GGP needs a new HQ
NORWALK, Conn. – Here’s what we have for you in political notes this Tuesday: Kassimis running – for Council GGP’s Chicago headquarters being redeveloped… Goldstein’s public comment stuck in transit BoE blamed for Ely fire Malloy assigns resources to New Haven line A McQuaid in government – someone new
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Norwalk Council tackles its $3.5M hotel-less mall issue
Updated, 12:10 p.m.: Clarification about Bloomingdale’s lease. NORWALK, Conn. — The SoNo Collection will not be a purely luxury center, but a Class A mall with a broad mix of retailers, GGP Vice President Doug Adams said Thursday. Also coming out of the Common Council Planning Committee meeting is the news that Nordstrom is committed…
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GGP CEO: Norwalk’s mall may get bigger
Updated, 5 p.m.: Comment from Doug Adams. NORWALK, Conn. — Mall developer GGP is considering expanding the retail component of The SoNo Collection, GGP CEO Sandeep Mathrani said Monday. This, as GGP seeks local governmental approvals to reduce the square footage of the project by getting permission to not build the hotel…
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GGP releases video simulating The SoNo Collection
NORWALK, Conn. — You can get a drone’s eye view of The Sono Collection in GGP’s glitzy new video – including the glitzy interior. GGP execs have tried unsuccessfully twice to show city officials this video. Perhaps they will have better luck at Thursday’s Common Council Planning Committee meeting, where the debate about GGP’s request…
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GGP’s quarterly report inspires talk of asset sales
Updated, 6:20 p.m.: Link to Chicago Business story added. NORWALK, Conn. — There are no sacred cows, GGP’s chief executive reportedly said Monday. GGP, the mall developer poised to begin construction on The SoNo Collection on West Avenue, is in the news Monday with numerous reports inspired by its stock prices and the release of…
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Norwalk mall notes: Stocks, opinions
Updated, 10:30 p.m. Sunday: Comment from Doug Adams; 3:30 p.m., Saturday: New story added. NORWALK, Conn. – Some GGP/mall news for you, mostly a collection of articles on the Internet: Architects: The old mall is dead Unusual trading on GGP Markets Daily predicts negative impact on GGP stock CNBC: Mall trends benefit GGP Rilling points…
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Norwalk mall to box in environmental contaminants at 95/7
NORWALK, Conn. — Contaminated soil will be carted away as part of the construction of The SoNo Collection, while other contaminated soil will remain on the site, “isolated” under the building, a Connecticut Licensed Environmental Professional (LEP) told the Norwalk Zoning Commission last week. The difference is in the level of contamination, said Mitchell Wiest,…
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Traffic engineers look to squeeze a bit more out of General Growth Properties & The SoNo Collection
Updated, 8:37 p.m., Comment from David Westmoreland clarifying the Historical Commission’s proposal for Crescent Street. NORWALK, Conn. — There are now dueling traffic studies for The SoNo Collection. While a traffic engineering company hired by the Norwalk Zoning Commission largely agrees with the traffic study done by General Growth Properties (GGP), making a few recommendations…
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SoNo Collection’s garage’s tube facade not a hit with Norwalk Zoning
NORWALK, Conn. – The tube-laden design for The SoNo Collection’s parking garage facade has been refined but still isn’t getting rave reviews from the Norwalk Zoning Commission. “I think you’re definitely attempting to grapple with this issue and I appreciate that, it’s just that we don’t really understand it,” Zoning Commissioner Roderick Johnson said to…
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Norwalkers laud The SoNo Collection at Zoning Commission public hearing
NORWALK, Conn. — Speaker after speaker stepped to the microphone to sing the praises of the proposed SoNo Collection mall at Wednesday’s Zoning Commission public hearing. With about 40 people present in the City Hall community room for the continuation of a hearing that began last week, 12 of 15 people who chose to speak…
