Correction: during the editing process, the building planned for demolition was misidentified. The developer plans to demolish 57 Greens Farms Road and build in its place a multi-family residential building.
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 57 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,” Colabella 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, 57 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. .
While the application is filed under 55 Greens Farms Road, the proposed demolition is the southernmost building, which is 57 Greens Farms Road.
See Exhibit B in the application filing, here: https://play.champds.com/ATT/westportct/2026-08/09b3a6d85c916431cc39ae869482c652cb430030.pdf
Tenants of 57 Greens Farms Road, my company included, have been notified.
This proposal should set off alarms well beyond the immediate neighborhood and RTM district.
Greens Farms Road is not an isolated local street. It is part of the corridor connecting I-95 Exits 18 and 17 by way of Bridge Street, the historic Cribari Bridge and Riverside Avenue. Adding 250 apartments at 55–57 Greens Farms Road—potentially hundreds of residents and their vehicles—could significantly affect traffic throughout that corridor.
The issue is not the inclusion of affordable housing, which represents 30 percent of the proposed units. Nor should anyone assume the project’s net traffic impact before comparing it fairly with the existing 60,000-square-foot office building that would be demolished. The issue is that this enormous development and the proposed replacement of the Cribari Bridge cannot responsibly be evaluated in separate governmental silos.
The public needs to see the developer’s complete traffic study, including the assumed occupancy and traffic generated by the existing office building; projected daily and peak-hour trips from 250 apartments; anticipated routes toward Exits 17 and 18; and the number of vehicles expected to travel west on Greens Farms Road toward the Cribari Bridge. The study should also examine construction traffic, emergency access, I-95 diversions, navigation-app routing and the consequences of making the bridge more accessible to larger and heavier vehicles.
This is especially urgent because CTDOT and FHWA are now preparing a revised Environmental Assessment for the Cribari Bridge project. That assessment must reflect present and reasonably foreseeable development—not an obsolete traffic baseline that ignores a known $100 million, 250-unit proposal on a road feeding directly into the bridge corridor.
The Conservation Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission, RTM, First Selectman, CTDOT and FHWA each have different responsibilities, but none should be allowed to say that the larger traffic picture belongs entirely to someone else. Decisions made separately could combine to produce consequences no agency ever examined: more congestion, more cut-through traffic, more heavy vehicles, greater danger for pedestrians and cyclists, and increased noise and pollution within one of Westport’s most historic residential neighborhoods.
Before either project advances, the public deserves a coordinated, corridor-wide traffic analysis addressing how this development and every Cribari Bridge alternative would affect one another. Once approvals are granted and construction begins, discovering that no one studied the combined consequences will be far too late.