Project redevelops office park

Thousands of apartments, condominium units, cottages, and lofts are are likely to be built in what has long been a sprawling corporate office corridor in Windsor, Connecticut, north of Hartford, The New York Times reports.

The $1 billion development, called Great Pond Village, is the latest example of suburban employment centers trying to evolve into lively, pedestrian-oriented places where people will live and not just work. As planned by Urban Design Associates of Pittsburgh, the 653-acre site will contain 4,010 new housing units, about half of them rentals.

Winstanley Enterprises, a developer based in Concord, Massachusetts. is teaming up with the property owner, the Swiss-Swedish industrial concern ABB (Asea Brown Boveri), to build the mixed-use project on a brownfield site previously used for researching, testing, and producing nuclear fuel for Navy submarines and commercial power generation.

Hartford Business reported in December 2010 that the housing would be “clustered more densely than Windsor zoning regulations presently allow.”