Twining / L&M designs
Design for "Winchester Green" apartments and retail on a vacant lot within Science Park, complete with a new interior street grid.
The money’s in. So the next apartment complex slated for a fast-changing stretch of the Dixwell-Newhallville border is ready to rise.
The complex is called “Winchester Green.” Or at least it will be once a planned 283 mixed-income apartments plus 12,800 square feet of stores rise on a gap-tooth surface lot within Science Park at 315 Winchester Ave.
Two national developers — Twining Properties and LMXD — have teamed up to build the complex.
They announced Thursday that they have finally nailed down the $90 million they need to build the five-story project. They stated they will now begin construction with a hoped-for opening date of “early 2026.”
The funding comes from investors as varied as a unit of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Key Bank to the not-for-profit arm of New Haven’s housing authority, the Glendower Group. The latter is helping raise $10.5 million for the project because it includes 57 apartments “reserved for households earning an average 50 percent of area median income.”
The state and local governments have also pitched in with tax breaks and infrastructure bucks, to help demolish contaminated old Winchester rifle factory buildings and create new streets and a public plaza. Read about that here and here.
Within just a few blocks of the project, new complexes are on the rise elsewhere on Munson Street and Henry Street with hundreds of apartments each. Click here to read more about the Winchester Green developer’s broader “Winchester Center” building plans.
A news release announcing the funding and planned start of construction quotes Dixwell Alder Troy Streater calling the Winchester Green “a breath of fresh air.”
“It will be great to see the 21st ward and the area where I grew up become a vibrant community,” Streater is quoted as saying.
Where the planned new 283-unit building (circled in red) would rise on a now-surface lot on Winchester Avenue.