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Within a year, four retail stores and two professional offices are expected to occupy 40,000 square feet in the former Fairfield Department Store in Fairfield under a plan announced last week.
The retailers would be on the ground foor, each occupying 5,000 sqare feet, and each office will have 10,000 square feet of class A space.
"The building will change dramatically in its style of appearance, but the physical structure will not change," said Jeff Giannone, a partner at Westport-based Tucker Investments, one of three Fairfield County firms that have signed a contract to buy the property.
Rcdcvelopment calls for renovating the building facade and expanding structured municipal parking, in addition to reconfiguring the store. The facility's core will be uplifted, with an office lobby and elevator to the second floor, Giannone put the estimated cost at $6 million to...