A prospective buyer of the former South Street School property in Simsbury plans to open a medical practice there while also attracting fitness and wellness-related tenants, according to a proposal filed with the town.<\/p>\n
The applicant, Dr. Wynee Lou, is in the process of purchasing 507 Hopmeadow St., a property locally known as the South Street School. Lou intends to establish a medical practice at the site and said potential future uses could include fitness studios, aerial yoga and other wellness-oriented businesses, planning documents said.<\/p>\n
The building has been owned since 1992 by 507 Hopmeadow Group, which is controlled by Susan Comer, who lists a Bloomfield business address, according to property and state records. The property has an appraised value of about $1.2 million.<\/p>\n
Town planning documents state the property has struggled to maintain full occupancy since the school closed in the early 1970s and has recently had difficulty attracting office tenants.<\/p>\n
To support the redevelopment plans, Lou has filed a zoning text amendment seeking to allow personal service uses \u2014 including yoga studios, health and fitness facilities, and exercise studios \u2014 in Simsbury\u2019s Professional Office zone.<\/p>\n
The proposal does not list a project cost or specific future tenants.<\/p>\n
The project is scheduled to be discussed at the Planning Commission\u2019s May 12 meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prospective buyer of the former South Street School property in Simsbury plans to open a medical practice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":["post-631953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}