Business & Tech
From Lab to Luxury Condos at Mystic Site
The long vacant waterfront site on Harry Austin Drive where once stood a razor factory and more recently, Mystic Color Lab, is set to be developed as luxury condos
For the last several years, the owners and developers of 2 Harry Austin Drive in Mystic were in no hurry to develop the site.
That’s changed.
The luxury condo project appears to be moving forward. Approved for that use by the town planning office, the developer and architect brought their plans to the Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday; an informal preview of the plan and got a warm reception.
The plan for condominiums by developer Edgewood Mac LLC, calls for four separate buildings with parking under the raised buildings per requirements by FEMA. The site is in a flood plain. The site, as many long-time residents will recall, once housed the Mystic Color Lab. And well before that, it was a razor factory.
The developer, represented by attorney Theodore Ladwig, said there would be 12 units in one building and 15 each in the other three buildings. The architectural design includes “steep roofs, New England architecture in stick style” with very large windows and long balconies.
Plans also call for a “heavily landscaped park, like a Tavern-on-the-Green with a great space in the center,” the commission was told.
Ladwig said the developer hopes to retain the same feel and historic characteristics of the original building.
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