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, with 94 feet of frontage on Noroton Avenue and 140 feet on Maple Street.
- Available
- 1,911 SF
- Ground floor
- 1,497 SF
- Parking
- 15 spaces
- 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. Fifteen dedicated spaces on the building's own lot is a ratio of 4.40 per thousand square feet — well above what a storefront on a main retail strip typically gets, 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.
Above it, 414 SF as a single open room with its own bathroom — an office, a quiet room, or storage that is not in the customer's eyeline. 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.