Talk:Stamford Town Center

For the June 2005 deletion debate on this article, see Votes for deletion/Stamford Town Center. -- Jonel | Speak 05:35, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Removing six pictures of blank walls
There is no need to clutter the article with pictures of blank walls. The point can be made with one picture, not seven. I've removed six (shown below). I like having pics in our articles, but the inclusion of these, all to make the same point, could be interpreted as an attack on the mall, which would be counter to WP:NPOV and WP:UNDUE. Noroton (talk) 16:19, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I removed the pictures in the gallery. With no articles to link to, they should be deleted eventually. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 04:49, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Interesting take on this part of Stamford's "new" downtown. Why no mention of the delays in getting the place opened back in the spring of '82?' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.206.169.66 (talk) 22:26, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

....."the mall's site was part of the Landmark urban renewal project and previously was the location of tenement structures that once lined Greyrock Place,"..... That is incorrect. The mall was indeed part of Stamford's urban renewal project that started back in the late 1960's. However, the site where the Town Center is now located sat vacant for close to a decade before construction was started. The land was used for a huge carnival and street-fair during the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. What's more, Greyrock place wasn't completely "lined" by tenement structures either. There were other buildings along that block, including the the old Stamford Day Nursery, and the old Board of Education, which were on opposite corners of the south side of Broad Street at its intersection with Greyrock Place. Also, Main Street in Stamford used to run west to east (and vise versa), from the Greenwich border through the center of town, to the Darien border. The Town Center cut off Main Street in the center of town. Now, Stamford has West Main Street, and East Main Street which are disconnected because of the mall's location.

As to the delays in getting the place opened that spring of '82' I was working in JC Penney's at the time, and I heard it had something to do with the emergency exits not being within fire code standards. The delay lasted only a week or two as I recall. Personally, I think someone in the building inspector's office didn't get his "tribute," and that's why it didn't open on time.

Overall, "urban renewal" turned the once family-friendly "small town" of Stamford into a concrete jungle, with congested traffic, and transplanted out-of-towners, who come there to live for a couple of years until the companies for whom they work transfer them back from where they came. And who, act as if they own the place! Even the current mayor is an out-of-towner. Property values went sky high. But, so did the cost of living, including TAXES, and so did the crime rate. Companies that were enticed to bring their corporate headquarters to Stamford's downtown area were given ten year tax deferments. Two of them, GTE and Champion International left town and went out of business after causing infrastructure changes(at taxpayer expense)to roads and traffic patterns surrounding their facilities. There are parts of Stamford that remain "good" to this day. Mostly the parks, beaches, and residential neighborhoods near the water(s), and up in the northern parts of the city. But central Stamford, from Ridgeway Center down to the Broad and Atlantic Street area, no longer boasts the beautiful colonial and Victorian houses that once lined Summer and Bedford Streets. Gone too are the garden apartments along Summer Street, and in its stead a corporate complex extends itself for a full city block. Overall, urban renewal was needed in Stamford. But, they way they went about doing it destroyed what was once a "hometown" feel in Stamford, and you can thank FD Rich for that.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.206.169.94 (talk) 14:16, 19 September 2014 (UTC)