Wooster Sq. Apartments May Be Solar Powered
by Allan Appel » New Haven Independent »
The developers of the Greene Street Apartments — 23 one and two-bedroom units slated to emerge from the old St. Michael’s School and Convent buildings at 234, 240, and 250 Greene St. in Wooster Square — promised to stay true to history and true to the sun.
That was their pitch Wednesday night to the members of the Historic District Commission, which ultimately must award the developers, Michael Massimino and his Branford-based Mass Development LLC, a certificate of appropriateness if the rehabbing and re-purposing of the old buildings is to proceed.
Developer Massimino and attorney Caleb Hamel.
That’s because the buildings are in the heart of the city’s Wooster Square Historic District. Every change visible from the public way in these districts is subject to the HDC’s approval.
The project’s site plan is to go before the City Plan Commission next week. It was not yet formally on the agenda of the historic commissioners on Wednesday night. Massimino and his team — Guilford-based architect John Cruet, the project’s lawyer Caleb Hamel, from Susman, Duffy & Segaloff, and architectural historian Marguerite Carnell — showed up anyway for a get-to-know-you chat…
