Health & Fitness
Second I-95 Milford Plaza Expected to Reopen April 20
The I-95 Milford Southbound Service Plaza is slated to have its "soft opening" on April 20 with a ribbon cutting ceremony currently scheduled for May 2.
Interstate 95 will become even more traveler friendly when the Milford Southbound Service Plaza, just past exit 41, is slated to open on April 20.
Mike Modine, Director of Operations for Project Service, LLC, said the soft opening will precede a ribbon cutting ceremony which is currently expected to occur on May 2.
Project Service, LLC in cooperation with the Connecticut Department of Transportation is embarking on a project to renovate all 23 of the state’s aging service plazas.
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The Milford southbound facility will be similar in architecture and design to its sister plaza on the northbound side, just past exit 40, which opened March 15.
The northbound plaza offers food, retail, gasoline, and diesel fuel services.
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Amenities include a comfortable and spacious dining room with large windows and flat-screen televisions, free Wi-Fi, ATM’s, pay phones, restrooms, a tourism kiosk, a state police office, truck idle reduction technology, separate parking for cars and trucks, solar energy panels, outdoor picnic tables, and a dog walking area.
McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Subway feature dine-in and drive-thru service.
Additional vendors include Good-to-Go Organic Health Foods, Sbarro’s, Robek’s Premium Smoothies, and Fast Freddie’s Convenience Store.
can be found inside the Statement Shop with products from Melissa and Doug, Pez, Wiffle, Munson’s Chocolate, WWE, and fresh flowers from a Chesire farm. The store also sells Fairfield, Yale, and UNH merchandise, sunglasses, and other items.
Fuel and diesel services are provided by Mobil.
While the southbound plaza will also feature Subway, Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonald’s, Sbarro, Statement, Fast Freddie’s, and Mobil; the other vendors will be different.
Panda Express, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Carvel, and Cheeseboy: Grilled Cheese to Go will all open in that location; the first of their chains to open in a Connecticut service plaza.
Both facilities closed for renovations in December 2010 but the southbound plaza took longer to reopen since the former building was completely demolished.
The southbound plaza will be the fourth in Connecticut to reopen after renovations. The first two reopened in North Haven along the Wilbur Cross Parkway in 2011.
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