Anchor institutions place pressures on their surroundings. Hospitals, in particular, create tensions with their host communities. Stamford’s Westside is the most diverse and economically-challenged neighborhood in the city. Stillwater Avenue, the community’s main commercial corridor, is poised for transformation as the region’s primary hospital doubles its footprint.
OUR RESPONSE
A new Health and Wellness building provides fitness, education and training along an open space setback linking the hospital expansion to an existing community garden.
The Results
New mixed-income housing has replaced obsolete public housing towers that were arrayed around the broader geography.
