Business

Citing Misrepresentations, Building Officials Issue Stop-Work Order on Beval Saddlery Renovation

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New Canaan building officials have issued a stop-work order on interior renovations to a Pine Street business after the property’s owner told them the project hadn’t been authorized and that misrepresentations had been made on a permit application for the work. It isn’t clear how far along Beval Saddlery is with an estimated $150,000 renovation at its 50 Pine St. location. Work must now stop, following a letter sent last week from Chief Building Official Brian Platz of the New Canaan Building Department to Mark Walter, owner of Beval Saddlery. “At the owner’s request I will reinstate and validate the now void permit with or without modifications, or I will order the building restored to its condition prior to the issuance of this permit,” Platz said in the letter, dated Oct.

Real Estate

Century-Old Parade Hill Road Home Coming Down

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A 100-year-old, single-story ranch on Parade Hill Road is slated for demolition and its owner has applied to construct a new home there that will more than double its living space. The red house at 119 Parade Hill Road—just past the turn as you come up the hill toward Oenoke Ridge—sits on .17 acres, according to tax records. It includes 625 square feet of living space (all in one room) among its approximately 1,450 total gross square feet. There’s an unfinished basement of the same dimensions. Purchased seven years ago for $460,000, it last was assessed at $357,000, according to the New Canaan Assessor’s office.