LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 17
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Issue 8
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February 24 – March 2, 2023
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Details Emerge on Wilton Mall Plans 296 Apartments, 88 Townhomes by Dylan McGlynn Saratoga TODAY
Paramount Development principal Tom Settle (left) and Wilton Mall general manager Mike Shaffer (right) discuss plans to construct 296 apartments and 88 townhomes on the property of the Wilton Mall on Tuesday. Dylan McGlynn photo.
THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’ City Council Implements Modifications by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — Addressing potential solutions to the lengthy and at-times volatile public comment sessions during recent council meetings, the city is looking to change meeting start-times from early evenings to late afternoons. It will also relocate public comment sessions from the traditional meeting-start to meeting-end and extend each
speaker’s allotted time limit by adding additional minutes. “All meetings will now start at 5 p.m.,” city Mayor Ron Kim announced while proposing the changes during the council’s Feb. 21 meeting. “We (will be) starting a little earlier to get to some of the standard business that has to be done by our City Council.” City Council meetings are typically held on the first and third Tuesday of each month. See Story pg. 9
WILTON — Officials from the Wilton Mall, Macerich, and Paramount Development met on Tuesday to discuss proposed plans to add nearly 400 apartments and townhomes on the site of the mall’s former Bon-Ton location. The group included Wilton Mall General Manager Mike Shaffer, Tom Settle, Principal at Paramount Development, and Tawney Farmer, Macerich Vice
President of Development. Shaffer said the project can be a “catalyst” for attracting new uses to the mall. “The project is really about economic revitalization, and ensuring that we continue to contribute to the Town of Wilton the way we have historically, and also continue to make this a vibrant shopping center with mixed-use and new uses that are essential in today’s environment for malls of our nature,” said Shaffer. See Story pg. 14
Summer Events ANNOUNCED
Photo: SPAC. Full Schedule: See pg. 25
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