The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission on Feb. 5 approved a plan by IJ Group LLC, controlled by Norwalk developer Jason Milligan, according to the city’s principal planner Bryan Baker. A narrow five-story office building currently sits atop an expansive ground-level retail floor on a 1.43-acre site at 24 Belden Ave., which IJ Group owns. The present structure contains about 45,000 square feet of office space and another roughly 45,000 square feet of retail space, according to an application filed with the city. IJ Group plans to renovate the office and retail spaces and build a five-story, 71,775-square-foot apartment building on one side of the present office-retail structure, and a five-story, 61,491-square-foot hotel on the other side, on the corner of Burnell Boulevard and Belden Avenue. Milligan said he plans to start the project in the summer, pending the permit approvals, and finish it in 18 months.
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