MANSFIELD – -
The Storrs Center has another new tenant as Cosimo's Restaurant Group has signed a letter of intent to be a part of the $220 million complex next to the University of Connecticut.
The restaurant group, located in New York State's Hudson Valley, operates five restaurants in that region. The restaurants focus on "creating traditional, yet imaginative New World Italian Cuisine." The group joins Campus Cuts and Body Language as the most recent commitments to the center. There are a total of eight letters of intent for the project.
Nick Citera, partner with Cosimo's Restaurant Group, said he believes Storrs Center will provide the right mix of college students, UConn faculty and staff, retirees, and other Mansfield residents "to make our restaurant successful." Citera said he also likes the projected combination of commercial and residential tenants which "should result in a dynamic neighborhood."
Mansfield Downtown Partnership Executive Director Cynthia van Zelm said, "the growing list of restaurants expressing interest in the project indicates that Storrs Center is shaping up to be a dining destination for residents and visitors alike."
The Vanilla Bean Cafe, a widely known restaurant in Pomfret, plans to open a 100-seat cafe. The center would offer a mix of shops, restaurants, housing and entertainment in a village setting. Construction on the first phase of Storrs Center isn't expected to start until 2010. The first phase of the project, north of Dog Lane, would feature 25,000 to 30,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and commercial space and about 114 rental apartments.
— Peter Marteka
The restaurant group, located in New York State's Hudson Valley, operates five restaurants in that region. The restaurants focus on "creating traditional, yet imaginative New World Italian Cuisine." The group joins Campus Cuts and Body Language as the most recent commitments to the center. There are a total of eight letters of intent for the project.
Nick Citera, partner with Cosimo's Restaurant Group, said he believes Storrs Center will provide the right mix of college students, UConn faculty and staff, retirees, and other Mansfield residents "to make our restaurant successful." Citera said he also likes the projected combination of commercial and residential tenants which "should result in a dynamic neighborhood."
Mansfield Downtown Partnership Executive Director Cynthia van Zelm said, "the growing list of restaurants expressing interest in the project indicates that Storrs Center is shaping up to be a dining destination for residents and visitors alike."
The Vanilla Bean Cafe, a widely known restaurant in Pomfret, plans to open a 100-seat cafe. The center would offer a mix of shops, restaurants, housing and entertainment in a village setting. Construction on the first phase of Storrs Center isn't expected to start until 2010. The first phase of the project, north of Dog Lane, would feature 25,000 to 30,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and commercial space and about 114 rental apartments.
— Peter Marteka
Repeat : This is in Storrs.
andrewsjajs (11/09/2009, 4:37 PM )
How anxious are the two previous commentors to a. miss the location and b. miss the previous commentator's quote pasted here, so they could trash Hartford? Wow - and hey, by the way - Hartford has a lot of good stuff going on, and violent crime is down so I'm not sure how accurate your comments would be even if you had the right location for this story - hint: Storrs is in Storrs, CT! And that would be - oh, yeah - UCONN, which doesn't have any campus in Hartford - but, now that the two are linked by mistake - sounds like a good idea!! Might bring more learnin' to these commentators!!
efpk (11/09/2009, 8:51 PM )