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Former ‘Silvermine Market’ Owners Seek New Space in New Canaan

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The longtime former owners of the Silvermine Market in New Canaan are seeking a commercial space to set up shop again. Mainly serving breakfast and lunch, Lou Aloupis—who ran the market along with chef Scott Kaluczky for 20 years through 2025—told NewCanaanite.com that the pair are “trying to find a new location to do what we did there somewhere else.” (A new restaurant is planned for the space at 1032 Silvermine Road following the building’s sale earlier this year.)

“After 20 years, the building’s old and it was time for us to go,” Aloupis said during an interview in New Canaan on a recent morning. “We love what we do, we’re passionate about what we do, we’re committed and convicted. Now it’s just a matter of finding the next location.”

Through the economic downturn of 2008, Hurricane Sandy and the pandemic, Aloupis said, the Silvermine Market kept reinventing itself to accommodate its customers and, as a result, forged deep ties with the Silvermine and wider community. That’s the main reason they’re seeking to reopen.

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New Restaurant Planned for ‘Silvermine Market’ Space

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Closed since November, the Silvermine Market—located across the street from an established art gallery and school bearing the same neighborhood name—is to relaunch this year as a more upscale bistro, the property’s new owner said. With a hopeful opening this fall—following a sorely needed and extensive renovation—the new restaurant will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and is designed to be “calm and nice,” according to Pavel Jansa. 

“It will be a small, cozy restaurant,” he told NewCanaanite.com. The new restaurant will incorporate the word ‘Silvermine’ into its name and likely will feature live piano-playing, Jansa said. Style-wise, “it’s going to be pretty much the same” though there will not be a bank of fridges such as seen in “a regular deli,” he said. “It’s going to be more, more upscale, cleaner,” said Jansa, a Weston resident.

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Boutique Beauty Studio Planned for South Avenue

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A boutique beauty studio is planned for a vacant commercial space in downtown New Canaan. The new business at 21 South Ave. will offer “personal care and cosmetic services along with retail sales of beauty and grooming products,” according to documents filed with Planning & Zoning. “The front portion of the space, immediately accessible from the main entry, will be dedicated to retail merchandise, customer reception, waiting area, and two beauty service stations with integrated retail shelving,” according to a proposed business description. 

It continued: “These retail functions will occupy the first portion of the premises in compliance with zoning requirements. The interior service areas will include a private full-size treatment room, an airbrush tanning room, and additional service rooms for appointment-based aesthetic services.”

The business’s operations will be “quiet in nature, with typical daytime and early-evening business hours, and customer visits will be primarily by appointment,” it said.

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Adirondack Store: ‘We Plan To Continue To Expand and Build Our Brand’

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The owners of a popular store in downtown New Canaan say they’re working with their landlords, as they have in the past, amid a highly seasonal retail environment to ensure continued investment in the community. When it began fitting out its space on Elm Street, The Adirondack Store “invested in a 10-year commitment to New Canaan,” owner Christopher English said. “And we just wanted to put it out there that the blurb of what was put in, the court documents, is really not represented correctly because it says that the rent is $11,250 a month—that was the rent the first month that we opened,” English said, referring to this news article. “Our rent is actually $23,416.67 a month and continues to go up. So we have invested over $1 million in rent since we have been in New Canaan.

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Eviction Notice Served on Elm Street Business

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The owner of a commercial building on Elm Street last week filed papers to evict a tenant there, saying rent hasn’t been paid since October, court records show. According to a complaint filed Feb. 6 in state Superior Court, the tenant at 39 Elm St. failed to pay $11,250 that month and every month thereafter. The address is the same as the Adirondack Store, which is listed as a non-appearing defendant in the case.