A brick wall which had surrounded the property on the southwest corner of Westport’s Post Road East and Compo Road South for decades has been reduced to a large pile. The 1.56-acre property was purchased last April by Fairfield County Bank which plans an office building and drive-in bank branch there. (See WestportNow April 15, 2008). With the new bank, three of the four corners of the busy intersection will be occupied by banks with Winslow Park on the fourth corner. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Jennifer Jackson for WestportNow.com
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Really sad that this is happening. Fairfield County Bank, is building here really the best thing to be doing for your business right now? This is one Westporter that will not be doing business with your bank. You probably won’t miss me or even care. But I don’t think I am the only one in town that feels this way.
How nice it looks with no building. Too bad about the bank’s desire to put one there.
I am certainly not one in favor of the many banks that have popped up around town over the last year or 2—BUT—i don’t think we can blame all of that on Fairfield County Bank—ALL BANKS SHOULD SHARE THE BLAME. Even the bank you bank at! And instead of holding these businesses accountable—- that are just trying to stay in business—how about holding our town officials and representatives accountable? They are the ones we trust to make the right decisions for our town—can’t say I am too impressed at all. And frankly, I think the McMansions with 3.5 people living in each one to be much worse than the banks!!! I mean what about the “playland” going up at Bayberry and Cross Highway? Now that is something to get angry at…..
Horrid, sickening, the thought of that corner denuded of trees, that lovely old wall gone, an ugly and soulless bank building towering over the intersection now.
This location is central, highly trafficked and very visible and the way it is developed will either have a positive, or very negative impact on this area of town. I have voiced my concerns to Frankie Smith,
the bank manager of Fairfield Bank on Bay Street that this new building reflect the New England/Coastal aesthetic and heritage of Westport. Other concerns of mine are retaining as many of the old-growth trees as possible, and minimizing signage, particularly plastic or lighted signs. The Ridgefield Bank (Fairfield County Bank’s parent company) has done a beautiful job with designing their flagship in Ridgefield to look as though it has been there always. Let’s hope and encourage them to show the same sensitivity here in Westport.
Hasn’t that brick wall been hit and repaired several times? I don’t share the opinion that it was a “lovely old wall”. Not that I’m a fan of asphalt, but the brick wall didn’t contribute much to the landscape either.
I think the biggest problem is going to be traffic, not so much the volume, but the complexity. That’s a busy intersection, and extra entrances and left turns won’t help.