By Bob Weingarten

Lynn Carlson Popat and Vijay Popat are honoring Westport’s heritage by displaying a Westport Historical Society plaque identifying their home at 16 Woodside Ave. as a house designed and built by architect Charles Cutler in 1922.
The house at 16 Woodside Ave. was built in 1922. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Bob Weingarten for WestportNow.com

Cutler was a well known Westport architect who designed residential and commercial properties including the Westport Bank & Trust Company building, currently occupied by Patagonia.

He was recognized by the federal government as two of his designed properties, the Green’s Farms Elemantary School and a Tudor house at 12 Old Hill Road, have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Popats purchased the property at Woodside Avenue in 2004 and considered demolishing the house and building a new house but reconsidered after a discussion at a P&Z meeting. 

The house at 355 Wilton Road is in the process of being demolished. Built in 1930, the 1 1/2-story cape had 1,369 square feet, was situated on a 1.5-acre property and changed ownership in May for $490,000. It was the WestportNow Teardown of the Day on April 26, 2011. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

By Judy Szablak

It’s another solid week in the Westport real estate market.
This Hunt Club area contemporary at 28 High Point Road is listed for $1,899,000. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Photo courtesy of William Raveis Westport

Although we have about a one-year supply of properties available, homes are selling at a nice pace. There were 14 single family home sales reported in this last week alone.

Unfortunately, the condo market has been slower than we would like, and needs every bit of assistance that we can find.

There is some buzz going on with the mortgage brokers about the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae loan limits that were part of the 2008 stimulus package and are set to roll back on Oct. 1.

By James Lomuscio

The prospective buyer of Geiger’s Garden Center is hoping that Westport’s new zoning regulation promoting affordable housing can help a planned development take root at the nursery.
Geiger’s Garden Center at 1135 Post Road East would become a mixed use commercial and residential development under proposed plans. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Lawrence P. Weisman, the attorney representing the undisclosed buyer under contract for the 2.5 acre site at 1135 Post Road East—opposite Green’s Farms Elementary School and the Post Road East shopping center anchored by Barnes & Noble—presented a pre-application review to the Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) last week.

It called for a mixed use commercial and residential development with 10 two-bedroom apartments, three of which would be leased or sold as below-market rate or “affordable.”

Laurence Bradley, director of the Planning and Zoning Department, described the presentation as “a first” under the new regulation.