New Hotel in Stamford's Harbor Point Could be 22 Floors

Stamford doesn’t have much in the way of tall buildings south of I-95 but that may soon change if Building and Land Technology gets approval to build a new hotel consisting of twin 22-story towers at the tip of Washington Boulevard and overlooking Stamford Harbor as part of the 80-acre redevelopment project.

If approved the new hotel buildings would have between 130 and 140 rooms as well as 60 condominium units, according to a report in the Stamford Advocate.

Planning for the massive, mixed-use redevelopment project began in 2008. The four-phase, 10-year project will include more than 4,000 new housing units, 400,000 square feet of retail space, offices and two hotels plus more than 11 acres of new parkland and waterfront trails, according to the developers’ website.

Building and Land Technology is reportedly in talks with "an operator of boutique hotels" which has reviewed the hotel design, according to the Advocate report.

The hotel was originally approved to be 13 stories with 257,805 square feet of space but the developers have since revised the design to include two slender 22-story towers, in an effort to offer more units with waterfront views, according to the report.

Two office buildings with more than 400,000 square feet have already been completed at Harbor Square. Tenants in those new buildings include consulting firm McKinsey & Co. and merchant energy company, Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy, according to the report.

Even at 22 floors, the new towers would not come close to rivaling the new 34-floor on Broad Street/Washington Bloulevard as Stamford's tallest building.