By Andy Brophy

WESTPORT–A $100 million development proposed on Greens Farms Road is heading to a public hearing of the town’s Conservation Commission on Wednesday.

The hearing will take place at 7 p.m. in Town Hall and is expected to be continued to Oct. 6. Meeting materials are here.

The proposed development calls for 55 Greens Farms Road–one of two three-story, 60,000-square-foot office buildings on the 21.9-acre property at 55-57 Greens Farms Road–to be demolished and replaced by a residential building that would have 250 units, 30 percent of which would be set aside as affordable housing, according to the application and Timothy Hollister, a Hartford attorney who represents TC Greens Farms LLC, the property owner.

In June, the owner’s representatives asked the Conservation Commission to reduce the wetlands portion of the property by about 20%, from approximately 11 acres to 8.6 acres. The commission approved that request.

Jeff Wieser, one of four Representative Town Meeting members in District 4, where the development is proposed, said Thursday that he had “heard little from district constituents regarding the project at this stage.”

Andrew Colabella, another RTM member in District 4, said he too had heard little about the proposed development.

“I haven’t seen anything concrete,” Wieser said Thursday evening. “It’s too early for me to comment. I don’t have enough details or enough information.”

Several residents on Greens Farms Road said Thursday evening they weren’t aware of the proposed development.

Members of TC Greens Farms LLC are not identified in the application. The LLC, which is affiliated with The Trammell Crow Company, a global development firm, bought the property in February for $25 million. The LLC’s address is identified on the application as 200 Park Ave. Suite 2001 in New York.

The Trammell Crow Company, founded in 1948, “has developed or acquired 3,000 buildings valued at $90 billion and over 700 million square feet,” according to its website.

“As of June 30, 2026, TCC had nearly $30 billion of projects in process in its pipeline,” its website says.

In Westport, 55 Greens Farms Road–the southern office building at 55-57 Greens Farms Road–would be demolished, while the northern office building would undergo exterior and interior renovations, according to the application.

Hollister said the residential building would have a mix of one- and two-bedroom units. He declined to identify the square footage of the proposed residential building, saying that falls under the purview of the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission, which also would have to approve the project before construction could begin.

“We’re still really in the wetlands and watercourses stage,” Hollister said. “Obviously we’ve put together what we think is a good plan, and we’ll take it one step at a time. Wetlands is the first step.”

However, the proposed development would mostly take place on parts of the property that already are developed “minimizing disturbance to previously undeveloped portions of the property,” the application says.

The development would directly disturb 80 square feet of wetlands due to an existing culvert being replaced, according to the application.

“Otherwise all regulated activities are located in non-wetland upland review areas,” the application says. “No proposed regulated activity will have an adverse impact on any existing significant wetlands or watercourse function.”

The project, according to the application, also would:

• Remove debris and invasive plants from an onsite stream channel that may be impeding flood storage and conveyance;
• Further stabilize land banks;
• Increase on-site flood storage and comply with FEMA flood storage requirements;
• Create a multi-use trail surrounding the northern parking lot;
• Upgrade the existing access loop road;
• Create an emergency access drive;
• Create two landscaped outdoor gathering areas.

Members of the Conservation Commission are scheduled to visit the site this morning at 9 a.m., in advance of Wednesday’s public hearing.

If approved by the Conservation Commission, the LLC would seek to subdivide the property into two lots and sell one of the lots, according to the application.

The application identifies the cost of the proposed development as +/- $100 million. 

Andy Brophy

Andy Brophy is an experienced Fairfield County journalist. Andy was a staff writer at The Connecticut Post for 10 years. He also wrote for the Norwalk Hour, Fairfield Minuteman, Fairfield Patch and weekly newspapers in Westport, Fairfield and Norwalk. When not reporting, Andy enjoys playing chess and listening to pianist Art Tatum. ^_.