The location
Noroton Heights is the working corner of Darien — the side of town with the train station, the shopping centre, the commuter traffic and the everyday errands. 101 Noroton Avenue sits on it, on its own corner lot.
- Available
- 1,911 SF
- Ground floor
- 1,497 SF
- Parking
- On-site dedicated
- To the train
- 0.2 mi
- Asking
- $45 /SF modified gross
Parking is the thing most Darien storefronts cannot offer
A customer-facing business lives or dies on whether people can stop. The parking here is on the building's own lot and dedicated to it — unlike a storefront on a main retail strip, where parking is shared, metered, or simply somebody else's problem.
Here a customer pulls in, parks, and walks ten steps to your door. For a service business where people arrive with children, with equipment, or with an appointment they are already late for, that is not a nicety. It is the difference between a second visit and a one-star review about parking.
The ground floor reads as a storefront, not a suite
1,497 SF at street level, direct entry from the lot, a vaulted ceiling, a built-in reception counter, a kitchenette, and daylight on three exposures. The floor is largely open with a small central core, so it takes a reception area, treatment or consultation rooms, a retail floor, or a studio layout without being fought.
414 SF on the second floor -- one open room with exposed beams and its own bathroom, reached by a private stair. No elevator. It can be taken with the ground floor or left off.
The building is free-standing. It is not a bay in a strip centre and it is not a suite behind a shared lobby. It reads as a small New England colonial, which is a different first impression from a glass door between two other glass doors.
The kinds of businesses that fit here
Personal service
Studios, salons, wellness and fitness — uses where clients arrive by appointment and need somewhere to put the car.
Health and practice
Therapy, counselling, dental, chiropractic and allied practices that want privacy, quiet and a door of their own.
Retail and commercial services
Shops and service counters that want visibility on a commuter route with parking attached.
Food, prepared or retail
Specialty food, bakery, prepared food and counter service, subject to the usual fit-out and permitting.
Who walks and drives past
- 0.2 mi — Noroton Heights station on Metro-North's New Haven Line. Commuters pass this corner twice a day, five days a week.
- 0.3 mi — Interstate 95, Exit 10. Easy to direct a customer to, and easy to leave from.
- 1.5 mi — downtown Darien and the Boston Post Road.
- 5 mi — Stamford.
The rent, stated plainly
$45.00 per square foot per year, modified gross. The landlord carries the property taxes, the landscaping and the snow removal. The tenant carries utilities and cleaning. That works out to $5,614 a month for the ground floor and $1,553 for the second. Both floors together are $7,167 a month.
The landlord is open to partitions, a reconfigured layout and flooring changes. Raise what you need before signing and it can be built into the deal.