Stew Leonard's Site Development on Hold: Report

ORANGE, Conn. - In December 2015, town officials announced that IT company Tangoe would be relocating to a proposed new 4-story office building on land owned by Stew Leonard’s on Marsh Hill Road.

Fast-forward six months later, and it’s back to the drawing board as Tangoe officials announced that the planned relocation is on hold, The Orange Times Editor Joseph Cole reports.

This means, once again, that the valuable Stew Leonard's property remains without a tenant or a concrete plan for now.

Tangoe is a software company with more than 2,000 employees in 15 separate offices. The company had hoped to be in its new home by January 2017, but a management change led the company to pull out of its agreement with Scinto, The Orange Times reports.

Shelton-based developer Bob Scinto holds an option to develop the land, which is still owned by Stew Leonard’s, The Orange Times reports.

The Orange Times reports that a veterans support group may also be interested in the land now.

In 2010, Stew Leonard Jr. announced that he had abandoned plans to construct his dairy store in Orange after a group of neighbors, called Save Our Neighborhood, continued to appeal his plans in court.

Neighbors battled Leonard for more than a decade, and at one point, Leonard vowed to fight to build the dairy store in Orange and he even remarked that he had put that stipulation into his will.

But Leonard reversed course and continues to build new stores in other states, including New York.

Read the full The Orange Times story here.

Patch file photo of a Stew Leonard’s store