GREENWICH, CT — Plans for a 4.5-story multi-family residential building with affordable units at the former site of a beloved dessert shop have been submitted to the Greenwich Planning & Zoning Commission.
The building is larger than a previous iteration that was submitted as a pre-application review in September 2025.
That proposal featured a 37-foot-high and 5,896-square-foot, three-story mixed-use structure with permitted commercial/retail use on the ground floor and six residential units on the second and third floors at 121 E. Putnam Ave. in Cos Cob, the former site of Chocoylatte Gourmet.
"The property owner has reconsidered its plans," John P. Tesei, attorney for the applicant KRM Realty LLC, said in the project's narrative.
The latest proposal, named "The Putnam Lofts," calls for the construction of a 53-foot-high, 16,696-square-foot multi-family residential building with 14 residential units, of which five, or 30 percent, will be "affordable" under the state's 8-30g statute.
Tesei noted there would be 14 parking spaces, with eight located in a lower-level garage and the remaining located outside.
The property is 10,041 square feet, and previously housed a gas station before Chocoylatte Gourmet, a gourmet dessert and coffee shop, opened in July 2019.
Chocoylatte closed in February 2020 after a car crashed into the storefront, killing the 47-year-old driver and severely damaging the building.
The business never reopened, and the building was eventually demolished.
The proposal is expected to go before the Greenwich Planning & Zoning Commission in the coming weeks.
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