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‘A Special Place’: New Canaan Couple Buys the Roger Sherman Inn

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A longtime New Canaan resident and his wife, who recently purchased the Roger Sherman, say they’re looking to update the property while preserving its history. Uanderson Benedetti said he and his wife, Brianna, “want the property to be a gathering spot for everyone in New Canaan, and even all of Connecticut and Northern Westchester.”

“My family loves this community, and we think the Roger Sherman deserves a special place in it,” Benedetti said. “We’ll try to update it as much as possible while maintaining its history and story.”

When asked by NewCanaanite.com why his company, 195 Oenoke Ridge LLC, purchased the property, Benedetti described it as somewhat of a “passion project.”

“It’s not something that we needed to do, but we wanted to,” he said. “I saw the value in reinvigorating the property to make it something that fills a gap in this community.”

Benedetti listed the following as ideas he’s had for potential renovations or business opportunities that could come to the Roger Sherman: adding hotel rooms, revitalizing the inside and outside of the restaurant, offering events such as pilates or movie screenings on the front lawn, expanding seating on the deck, and opening the restaurant for extended hours. The Roger Sherman will partner with several local businesses and offer a variety of amenities, according to Benedetti. 

“The goal is to make it a place of shared experiences,” he said.

Business

‘Core Burn Pilates’ Plans to Open on Elm Street

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Core Burn Pilates, a boutique studio, is planning to open a location in New Canaan this summer. The new Core Burn Pilates studio will be located on 142 Elm St., currently a vacant space. The previous occupant was a retail store, Lilly Pulitzer (now at 78 Elm). Founded in 2010 by Tamara Slupchynskyj—a co-owner of the New Canaan location—Core Burn Pilates has 12 studios across Connecticut including Greenwich, north Greenwich, Rowayton and Westport, according to the business’s website. The company also has studios in New York and North Carolina.

Business

Gulf Station Property Sells for $5 Million

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

June 9

183 South Ave., Unit 25 and Garage Unit 33

$1,358,000
Shannon O’Brien to Andrew Weitzel

June 11

30 Knapp Lane 

$945,000
Benjamin Tudor to Victoria Porfido

June 12

794 Oenoke Ridge

$5 million
Farrokh Debo, trustee, to William Timlen

36 South Ave. $5 million
Kasur LLC to New Canaan Gas Realty LLC

19 Fawn Lane

$4,325,000
Thomas Johnson, co-trustee, to 19 Fawn Lane LLC

June 13

205 Main St., Unit 9

$1,325,000
Andrew Brode, successor in trust, to Charles Brode, successor in trust 

424 Valley Road

$1,150,000
Ann M. Hiden Revocable Trust to Elizabeth Hiden 

Business

Town To Focus on Ridding Elm Street of Double-Parking Trucks

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Once the oversized dumpsters in the parking lot behind The Playhouse are moved to a better area, and there’s also a new ramp connecting that lot with the alley that runs alongside Le Pain Quotidien, enforcement officers will focus on getting double-parking delivery trucks off New Canaan’s main drag downtown. As it is, delivery trucks exacerbate congestion on the one-way stretch of Elm Street throughout the day. That segment of Elm and the commercial block of South Avenue both will change to paid parking later this summer, reversing a decades-old system. (When that happens, the town will convert the paid spots in the Park Street Lot to free.)

“We are going to be trying to push them, and we do that now,” Parking Manager Stacy Miltenberg said Tuesday during a regular meeting of the Board of Selectmen, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. 

She continued: “We try to move them. We try to direct them where we can.

Business

‘It’s Going To Hurt Merchants’: Parking Commission Pushes Back on Elimination of 15-Minute Spots on Elm Street

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Members of the appointed body that oversees New Canaan’s parking department this month pushed back on part of a larger plan that will see the one-way stretch of Elm Street converted to paid spots. Specifically, members of the Parking Commission during their May 7 meeting objected to plans to eliminate—rather than increase—the number of free 15-minute parking spaces on Elm Street while the town converts those free spots to paid. “If we are not interested in revenue, what is the argument against short-term parking?” Commissioner Katie O’Neill said during the regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “Because as I see it, we are adding a surcharge on coffee shops, on sandwich shops. All the sudden now if you are picking up a $15 sandwich it’s going to be $15.50 or whatever.