A site application proposal includes discussion of a demolition of the house at Westport’s 535 Post Road East, near the Westport Fire Department. Built in 1900, the one-and-a-half-story house previously converted to a store front. It is situated on a 1.61-acre property leased by Terrain, which opened in 2011. The company, which earlier said it would preserve the house, now is proposing to demolish it to provide additional parking. The application will be reviewed by the Westport Historic District Commission at its Tuesday meeting. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
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1. Please watch this video I did about the situation regarding this house.
http://youtu.be/LvL1UwZb1MQ
2. Also this is an old photo of the house. A new one would be more representative. It has been preserved and should not be knocked down.
If you have any questions email me at
matthew@westportd1.com
And write P&Z and tell them not to tear down this house for a few parking spots. lbradley@westportct.gov
Matthew, thank you for posting that.
in lieu of a formal petition, consider my name part of one.
Sandi C. Martin
Westport
and sent an email to lbradley@westportct.gov
This is disgusting! Terrain was granted 2 OKs by the town and P&Z exactly BECAUSE they were going to SAVE the house, and now, for 8 parking spots, they want to remove the house. They should have thought of that before they expanded their outdoor garden area and outdoor eating area that took up all those parking spots.
If P&Z allows them to remove this house, it would be another slap in the face of the history of Westport. If O’Keefe/Curran was able to run a car dealership for decades(which dealt in selling cars so they REALLY needed all available spots) and was able to keep the house on the land, what is wrong with Terrain and their management?
Despicable and deplorable comes to mind…along with backstabbing, as they are going back on their word (twice given and twice granted)…and I’ve been in this town for 30+ years…getting P&Z to agree to something twice is pretty amazing.
Terrain already restored the exterior, now they want it gone?
Don’t allow them to destroy this house.
Space is tight, it would seem. How about some alternative suggestions for the Terrain management?
Perhaps finishing the restoration and relocating the cafe to this spot, where the cafe would have much more charming outdoor seating with cooler grass and porch locations.
If it’s parking and backroom space they want, there’s also other close options. They could likely negotiate an excellent deal on the former IHOP and have storage of bulky items and their delivery vehicles park there, freeing up even more on site space and parking. They could sell clearance, remnants there occasionally.
There’s costs to doing business, but it would seem there’s also benefit to be gained in not alienating portions of the potential customer base. Hopefully they can make lemonade out of lemons here.
Elizabeth that’s a great idea. Have the cafe at the house, which would give Terrain a reputation of working with the community and not just another corporation only concerned with the bottom line.
Thanks for putting up a current photo. Now it looks like a real house.
As one of the owners of the property I plan on doing everything possible to prevent the tear down of this house which my family protected for over 40 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Terrain is attempting to side step the commitments made to us during the lease negotiations.I welcome any input from the folks of Westport
Tom, if they only lease it, how do they have sway over what happens to the building?
How can they get the OK to tear down property they don’t own?! What the heck?!
PLEASE, good people of Westport who work here, serve the community, and make their homes: PLEASE preserve our history so that future generations will understand why so many of us came here in the first place! It we continue to destroy our past, cover up our tracks to remove our footprint, so to speak, there will be little trace of who those who lived here, not because it was an affluent and artistic community, but because their roots were here or they traveled here to make a better living for their family…we have no right, really, to extinguish their past. It’s all part of who we are today, the ol’ timers as well as the transplants.