Weird wrote:
"I know Bethel well, there was a little pizza shop downtown there that had phenomenal pizza. Worked there for several years."
Yup. "Famous Pizza". Still there, although they recently moved from their "corner" location to a couple of doors down.
I don't live in Bethel, but not all that far away. I ran trains through there during the Conrail years.
Most of the info I've seen posted in this thread is just flat-out WRONG.
When you talk about towns like Greenwich, Darien, Westport, Fairfield, New Canaan -- THEN you are talking about ritzy suburban posh towns.
Bethel is just a small-town suburb of Danbury, small city just to the north.
It was never "a wealthy suburban town" until around the 80's or so, when "spillage" from wealthy towns below started moving in. I still wouldn't call it "wealthy". Just another Connecticut town not on "the gold coast" to the south.
There's a reason the developer is "pinning the target" on Bethel and not on Weston or Westport or Darien -- those towns are rich, and Bethel isn't. The wealthy towns can fight back easily. For Bethel it will be tougher, but they still might do it.
I don't think there's a building there that's over 3 stories tall.
They definitely don't deserve a 5-story "project".
Hope they fight it... and win.
By the way, $500,000 won't buy you much in Fairfield county any more. Just a few notches above "entry level". Take a look at Weston or Redding at zillow, find me a bargain, ok...?
