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‘Exceeded All of My Expectations’: Look New Canaan Marks One Year in Business

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Look New Canaan, an eyewear vendor and optometry practice located on 21 Forest St., has reached its one-year milestone. Owned and operated by Dr. Jennifer Stewart, a Rowayton resident with more than 15 years of optometry experience, the retail shop and practice provides patients of all ages with eye exams, custom lens fitting, ocular disease management and more. Stewart said that her first year has been “more than she could have ever expected or planned on.”
“It’s been an unbelievable first year,” she told New Canaanite. “Patients have been really great, and the town has been so supportive of us. It really exceeded all of my expectations.”
In addition to the wide range of services offered at Look New Canaan, Stewart said she believes that the location has been a major factor in her success.

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‘I Still Pinch Myself’: Optometry Practice and Eyewear Boutique ‘Look New Canaan’ Opens on Forest Street

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Dr. Jennifer Stewart had owned an optometry practice in Norwalk for a dozen years when she sold it in 2022 and for about 18 months focused on industry work—speaking, consulting, writing and virtual presentations—as well as on her two young boys, now eight and 11 years old. “I wanted to be a room mom and go on field trips,” Stewart recalled with a smile Wednesday morning from the comfortable, modern and welcoming retail floor of her brand-new optometry practice on Forest Street. “So I did that and I wasn’t sure what I’d do, and then I started to miss patient care,” she said. “I started to miss all my patients and being in an office. I teach practice management and I teach business.