Nothing Spells Class Like an Inversion of "ER" to "RE"

Mr. Stamford has a post up on the Atlantic Centre project finally beginning this week with the demolition of the boarded up stores next to the downtown post office. I noticed the fence go up and the signs posted last week. Laziness in posting is putting me behind in what is developing as a growing Stamford Blog scene.

Atlantic Centre, with a Ritz Carlton hotel, condos, a restaurant in the old post office, & retail space joins Trump Parc and Highgrove as part of the insane amount high end luxury housing under construction in Downtown Stamford right now. RBS can only fill so many rooms, I'm interested to see if the market can fill all these new units.

The project was surrounded with controversy last year as it came up for approval. The plan broke Stamford's building height cap however was allowed after a donation was made to the Mill River Collaborative. The plan utilized the old post office as a restaurant, and it while preserved most of the building it did involve demoing a later addition and sealing it with a glass wall. Some of the St. John's Tower units who up to this point were lucky not to face a view of one of the other bleak urban cylinders now had a parking garage butting up against them.

In addition to those legitimate concerns there was a strong anti-development feeling against the project that found it's home in the Stamford Advocate forums.

My opinion, if some one wants to drop a million plus to live in walking distance of P.F. Chang's more power to them.