CONSTRUCTION UPDATES
May 3, 2022
On Friday May 6th from 7:30am - 1:00pm, we will have a concrete pour at The Corbin District construction site. During this time, there will be a section of Corbin Drive in front of the Post Office that is closed in both directions. Entrances to Corbin Drive will be open at both the Boston Post Road intersection allowing for entrance to the Corbin parking lot that services both the office and retail tenants as well as the Old Kings High South intersection allowing for access to the Post Office Parking lot and mail drop boxes through the lot entrance closet to Old Kings Highway South. All sidewalks along Corbin Drive will be open for use during this concrete pour.
We appreciate your continued patience throughout the construction process. Should you have any questions, please feel to reach out.
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David Genovese
March 15, 2022
March 4, 2022
We are pleased to share that the third concrete pour for the first phase of The Corbin District has been scheduled for Monday, March 7th, weather permitting. To execute this work, we will be coordinating the delivery by concrete trucks from 9:00am to 2:00pm. During this time, we will need to close Corbin Drive from the Boston Post Road intersection to the far end of the 10 Corbin Building. Please note the sidewalk in front of the 10 Corbin building will remain fully open.
While this section of Corbin Drive is closed, the Darien Police Department will be onsite to provide assistance with the flow of traffic. Tenants and visitors approaching Corbin Drive from Boston Post Road will be directed to use Center Street to Old Kings Highway South to access Corbin Drive. From that direction the parking lots into the Post Office, the 10 Corbin office building and retail shops will be accessible. Detour signage directing traffic will be posted as well. Please keep in mind that access to the back lot is also available from Boston Post Road through the alley between Helen Ainson and Mathnasium.
We would also like you to be aware that the concrete trucks will be parking in the spaces adjacent to the Farm Stand area, along Old Kings Highway South while the work is taking place. Although those parking spaces will not be available, traffic lanes in both directions on Old Kings Highway South will be open and usable at all times. We have been coordinating this effort with our construction team and have hired the Darien Police to help monitor traffic. It is our intention to make the process run as smoothly as possible for all.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
David Genovese
March 1, 2022
We thought it would be helpful to provide a general construction update, though the work over the next month or so should be minimally disruptive. As you may have seen, the carpenters are working hard on The Tibbetts Building, and they should make fast progress on this building so that we can complete it by September of this year.
At the same time, the concrete installation team will be working hard over the next month on forming and pouring the walls for the front two buildings, 1044 Boston Post Road and 15 Corbin Drive. We expect to pour the last section of the foundation slab for 15 Corbin Drive within 4 weeks. The steel for the structure of these buildings has been manufactured and is waiting in the Carlucci Welding warehouse to be installed. From here, we should move quickly, with a goal of completing the retail spaces of 15 Corbin Drive and 1044 Boston Post Road by the end of 2022 so that we can relocate Bank of America and our retail tenants in January 2023. With this move, we can get onto Phase 2 of the project!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on (203) 656-0500.
Thank you for your support and patience!
David
February 20, 2022
Now we will start to rock and roll!
Tomorrow, Monday, we will pour the foundation for The Tibbetts Building at 35 Corbin Drive. This building will become the home of @baublesdarien and Darien Dry Cleaning, two small stores, and just four luxury apartments (two on each floor). Each of the new buildings in The Corbin District has been designed by @beinfieldarchitecture to appear as if it was built by a different builder and designed by a different architect, and to look as if it happened at a different time than the others around it. The buildings should complement each other and not compete with each other for your eyes’ attention. Two of the smaller buildings will be constructed of wood and heavily soundproofed but all other buildings will be built of steel and concrete (as we and PG Properties built Grove Street Plaza, 1020 Boston Post Road and Mead House at 745 Boston Post Road). This is more expensive to do but the only way we know how to be highly confident that the larger buildings with apartments and retail, restaurants and fitness uses on the first floor are, to our standards, soundproof.
The Tibbetts Building should go up fast and be ready for occupancy in the fall.
Over the next four weeks we will be forming walls for the other two buildings on a Corbin Drive, as well as the last foundation slab. We should pour that last foundation within five weeks. The steel is in and @carlucci_welding is ready to erect.
Lastly, Corbin Drive will remain open both ways tomorrow. This pour should be minimally disruptive.
February 10, 2022
We are pleased to share that we are re-scheduling the first foundation pour for the first phase of The Corbin District. Our construction team has scheduled the foundation pour for Wednesday , February 16th, weather permitting. To execute this work, we will be coordinating the delivery by concrete trucks from 6:00 am to 9:00 pm. During this time, we will need to close Corbin Drive from the Boston Post Road intersection to the far end of the 10 Corbin Building. Please note the sidewalk in front of the 10 Corbin building will remain fully open.
While this section of Corbin Drive is closed, the Darien Police Department will be onsite to provide assistance with the flow of traffic. Tenants and visitors approaching Corbin Drive from Boston Post Road will be directed to use Center Street to Old Kings Highway South to access Corbin Drive. From that direction the parking lots into the Post Office, the 10 Corbin office building and retail shops will be accessible. Detour signage directing traffic will be posted as well. Please keep in mind that access to the back lot is also available from Boston Post Road through the alley between Helen Ainson and Mathnasium.
We would also like you to be aware that the concrete trucks will be parking in the spaces adjacent to the Farm Stand area, along Old Kings Highway South while the work is taking place. Although those parking spaces will not be available, traffic lanes in both directions on Old Kings Highway South will be open and usable at all times. We have been coordinating this effort with our construction team and have hired the Darien Police to help monitor traffic. It is our intention to make the process run as smoothly as possible for all.
The steel for these buildings is ready to be installed, thanks to the team at Carlucci Welding & Fabrication, and the framers are ready to begin work on The Tibbetts Building once we get that slab poured. The unseasonably cold weather experienced we have experienced over the last few weeks set us back a bit, but the situation is looking better now! Thanks for your patience and understanding.
January 17, 2022
Unfortunately, the cold weather isn’t cooperating, and we are going to have to reschedule the pouring of our first foundation slab at The Corbin District. The nights have been too cold, and our steel rebar has to be warmer (45 degrees or higher) for the installation to be acceptable. The heating system for the steel will be installed in the next few days and we will shoot for an early February pour. There is still a lot of prep work to be done so we won’t lose much time. Updated foundation pour date will be posted as soon as we have it scheduled.
Thank you for bearing with us and for your patience and support throughout the construction process.