Former Briarwood College campus in Southington eyed for age-restricted housing
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Former Briarwood College campus property in Southington, at 2279 Mount Vernon Road.
A New Haven-based developer is seeking a zone change that would allow it to redevelop the former Briarwood College campus in Southington into an over-55 residential community with 150 units.
PGX Holdings LLC has filed an application with the Southington Planning and Zoning Commission seeking to change a zoning district boundary from R-40 to ARCHZ, an age-restricted cluster housing zone.
The application was the subject of a public hearing that began on March 4. The hearing was left open and will be continued on March 18.
In May 2021, PGX Holdings purchased the property for $3.5 million from Briarwood Real Estate Limited. The property was later listed for sale in May 2022 for $6.9 million, but it never sold.
PGX is controlled by Moises Grunblatt, who lists a New Haven business address, and Carlyle Equities LLC, state records show.
The 32.75-acre property at 2279 Mount Vernon Road was known as Briarwood College from 1966 through early 2010. It later became Lincoln College of New England, which moved out of the property in 2018 and shut down in 2019.
According to the application, the existing seven buildings on the property would be converted into 150 studio and one-bedroom apartments that would be restricted to tenants aged 55 and over. The units would range in size from 350 square feet to 1,000 square feet.
The developers said they also plan to incorporate a small percentage of affordable “workforce housing units,” but did not specify how many units that would include.
In addition to seeking the zone change, the developers told the commission they have filed an application with the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) seeking a variance to allow for the use of existing structures for the over-55 community; to have more than two attached units; to allow for 100% of the units to be attached; to allow for increasing the number of units per acre to 5 from 3.5; and to allow the units to be rentals.
The application seeking a variance is on the agenda for the ZBA’s meeting scheduled for Tuesday but is likely to be postponed until the Planning and Zoning Commission makes a decision on the zone change application.
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