From today’s Greenwich Time: October 21, 2026:

Lodgings on Stamford's Atlantic Street

A hotel long in the works for downtown Stamford got a zoning administrative review on Oct. 19. Old Towne Hotel would be located at 160 Atlantic St., where an historic Stamford Savings Bank building has been used more recently as offices. The hotel would be 11 stories with 92 guest rooms and suites.

To my eye, topping off the existing landmark with a lump of a hotel tower that could as easily be a corporate headquarters building achieves nothing good aesthetically, but hey, it’s Stamford, so why not? What really caught my eye, though, besides the ugly building itself, is the length of time it’s taken the developer to get to this stage: seven years, and probably at least another year before ground-breaking. Even the luxury/po’folks towers (see next post) at 275/290 Mason Street, despite being tied up in court battles and P&Z disputes, are underway after just 3 years.

The article below gives the details of this of this Stamford project was published September 17, 2023, and at that time the application was already four-years-old, with, as it turns out, at least two more to go:

Newest plan for Stamford Savings Bank-to-hotel conversion includes better parking, traffic control

STAMFORD — The Zoning Board appears to finally be heading toward a vote on a long-discussed downtown hotel project.
The board on Sept. 11 closed a public hearing on an application to renovate the old Stamford Savings Bank building into an 82-room boutique hotel with a ground-floor restaurant and rooftop patio. Board members could vote on the proposal as soon as their next meeting Monday.
The historic 1940 building was valued at about $3.27 million at its most recent appraisal last year. Formerly the headquarters of now-First County Bank, it was acquired in June 2019 by Old Town Square LLC, a company run by business partners Nagi Osta and Shalinder Nichani. Osta runs the self-titled Nagi Jewelers, a High Ridge Road family jewelry business.
“The last set of plans which we got delivered Friday night were really helpful in this application,” board member William Morris said. “It really cleared up a lot of the questions that I believe several of the board members had that they weren’t sure, but now we know what we’re voting on.”
The Zoning Board first received the application for the Old Towne Hotel more than four years ago. The project received its first public hearing last December, and the development team has been shoring up design concerns at the board’s request since then.
…. Additionally, during public hearings [note the plural, some speakers complained that the proposed hotel was too tall. The proposal would build the red-brick building up to about 160 feet high.
Lydon said the development team has reached an understanding with the mall and agreed to conditions including using part of the building’s westward frontage as a staging area for vehicles. If the project is approved by the Zoning Board, Lydon said, city officials will write up an agreement for the different parties.
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Zoning Board chair David Stein noted that there are no existing measures in place for property owners to protect the bank.
“Whoever owns it can tear it down and build something different there, so what this application does is maintain that bank. It keeps it there and incorporates it as part of a larger development, but the alternative is that (the) bank gets torn down,” Stein said.