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20, 34 Fair St.: Garages demolished, housing to come.
A development team has knocked down two vacant Fair Street garages — as builders move forward with plans to construct 168 new apartments on the housing-rich downtown edge of Wooster Square.
That’s the latest with 20 and 34 Fair St.
On Jan. 8, the city’s Building Department issued certificates of approval for the demolition of two service garages that had long stood at those addresses.
Those two properties are owned by a holding company controlled by the Norwalk-based Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, which is partnering with Darren Seid of the New York City-based development firm Epimoni on plans to construct a new six-story, 168-unit apartment complex at that site. The development will also create a “greenway” on Fair Street — a publicly accessible walkable connection that will reopen for the first time in years a stretch of Fair between Union and Olive Streets.
On Wednesday, Seid — whose company also built the 299-unit Olive & Wooster complex right across the street — confirmed that those Fair Street garages were knocked down in the past two or three weeks, following asbestos abatement at those properties.
Next up, he said, is the “site work package.” In particular, he said, the developers will be using a so-called “rammed aggregate pier” system, by which the builders will take the currently crushed and compacted materials at the site and then “auger down in a cylinder-like hole” and use the existing fill in those holes to boost the bearing capacity for the soil. The goal: to use that existing fill to bolster the foundation system, and to haul off site as little as possible.
Seid said he expects construction to wrap up on these new apartments sometime in 2026.
Looking east on Fair towards Olive: existing apartments on the left, demolition site to the right.
