Business
Dry Cleaning Drop-Off, Tailoring Services Planned for Former ‘Maddie’s’ Space on Pine Street
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The owner of a recently vacated commercial space on Pine Street is seeking permission to use it as a drop-off for dry cleaning and tailoring services. Maddie’s, a burger and sandwich shop at 78 Pine St., closed in December after 18 months in business. According to a site plan application submitted to Planning & Zoning, property owner Moon Chun will not place dry cleaning machines in the new space. (Family business Sanda’s Cleaners already occupies the eastern half of the building, though the application doesn’t specify whether or how the new business will work with the existing one.)
Under the New Canaan Zoning Regulations, businesses in the Business A zone follow the same rules for non-office use as the Business B zone. Site plan approval is required for a change of use for “specialty retail shops” as well as for “[l]aundries or dry cleaners, provided chemical dry cleaning is done off premises” (see pages 82 and 85 here).
Chun said in the application: “The space will be open to the public for retail use.