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The Board of Selectmen at its most recent meeting approved a pair of contracts for electrical equipment needed for the widely anticipated renovation project at the Playhouse on Elm Street. Shuttered since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 100-year-old brick movie theater is undergoing major interior work for a reopening later this year. The […]

The Board of Selectmen last week approved an approximately $385,000 contract with a Ridgefield-based firm for demolition and abatement work at The Playhouse. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kathleen Corbet and Nick Williams voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with Alden Bailey. The work will involve “selective construction, demolition and abatement services,” according […]

Town officials this month approved an approximately $175,000 contract with a Ridgefield-based firm for interior demolition and abatement at the movie theater on Elm Street. The Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 in favor of the $175,381 contract with Alden Bailey Restoration.  “This will open up the area and allow the architects and the engineers to […]

The Board of Selectmen at its most recent meeting approved a $93,500 contract with a Stamford-based company to make exterior repairs and upgrades to the daycare facility at The Schoolhouse building on South Avenue. The selectmen voted 3-0 at its Sept. 6 meeting in favor of the contract with J. Antonelli Roofing for the work […]

Town officials voted last week to sell the existing projector and sound system in the Playhouse movie theater on Elm Street.  The Board of Selectmen at its regular meeting Sept. 6 voted 3-0 in favor of selling the 11-year-old equipment to Niskayuna, NY-based Integrity Entertainment Systems for use in a refurbished Massachusetts theater. (The new […]

The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved a two-year lease for the New Canaan Police Department to relocate to a building downtown during the widely anticipated renovation of its South Avenue headquarters.  The building at 39 Locust Ave., longtime home of New Canaan Public Schools, will be vacated by the district following the academic year […]

The Board of Selectmen last week approved a $62,100 contract with a Ridgefield-based company to repair the gazebo in Waveny Park. The company, Alden Bailey, has all supplies in stock to do the work, according to Bill Oestmann, superintendent of buildings in the Department of Public Works. The gazebo’s roof needs repair “and the structure […]

The town will hold two meetings this month to solicit public input on a plan to have a New Jersey-based company operate the Playhouse on Elm Street. The movie theater closed in March 2020 due to the pandemic, and became available to a new tenant nine months later, when Bow Tie Cinemas terminated its lease. […]

A public hearing is planned to allow residents to voice their opinions on a plan to...

Town officials last week approved an approximately $34,000 contract with a local architecture firm to draw up accessibility improvements to and around the movie theater on Elm Street.  The Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 during its June 7 meeting to approve the $33,925 contract with Architectural Preservation Studio, DPC, which has offices in New Canaan […]