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‘Carpet Trends’ Seeks P&Z Approval Ahead of Spring Opening on Main Street

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A family-owned business moving into a long-vacant commercial space in downtown New Canaan is seeking formal permission from the Planning & Zoning Commission to provide its residential and commercial flooring and related services. Carpet Trends is planning to open a satellite showroom at 97 Main St. next month. The former Garelick & Herbs space has been vacant for about eight years. Under the New Canaan Zoning Regulations, P&Z site plan approval is required for retail businesses with a gross first-floor area of less than 5,000 square feet operating in the Retail A Zone (page 77).

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‘A Family-Friendly, Community-Oriented Business’: Carpet Trends Is Coming to Main Street

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A family-owned, multi-generational provider of residential and commercial flooring and related services is coming to downtown New Canaan. Carpet Trends will open a satellite showroom at 97 Main St. this spring, according to owner Tyler Rogers, whose grandfather launched the business in 1956 in Rye, N.Y.

“We do some work in New Canaan and the surrounding area now, and we thought given the similarities between Rye and New Canaan, the location that [Realtor] Betsy [DiMatteo] helped me find, there was a lot of things that lined up, and it’s easy for us to service this area from our existing warehouse with our existing labor with our existing stock. We’re known for the stock that we carry, which is discounted high-end to low-end products that we buy in bulk. So when designers are shopping and they’re looking at the high-end products or they’re looking for whatever products, they come to our stock wall and see if they can get a good discount for a high-quality product because we have it in stock.