The two Chelsea stars were excellent with Palmer coming in for a lot of praise after the match For Manchester United legend Gary Neville, Palmer was the best footballer on the pitch. Another member of the Blues’ forward line, Nicolas Jackson However, supporters still acknowledged his contribution to the 3-1 win at Stamford Bridge Jackson can be frustrating to watch at times. Even Palmer got annoyed with Jackson during the Liverpool game which is something Chelsea supporters clearly recognise When the 23-year-old was substituted in the 72nd minute for Jadon Sancho Stamford Bridge clapped him off while shouting his name Another frustrating afternoon of Nicolas Jackson but Stamford Bridge claps him off and shouts his name as he walks around the pitch after being subbed off anyway.He's always lively even when not showing the quality It is the kind of support Jackson needs after a difficult spell at the club. While the Senegal international was able to score a brace against Djurgarden last week and a goal in Chelsea’s last Premier League outing before Liverpool Thankfully, that is over now and so is Palmer’s following his penalty versus the Reds. Enzo Maresca will now be hoping his two attackers can get Chelsea over the finishing line and back into the Champions League One of Jackson’s biggest strengths is his movement The former Villarreal man makes some excellent runs sometimes Jackson can go too early and stray offside which is what happened against Liverpool over the weekend the striker was flagged offside four times which is the highest number recorded in the Premier League this season Most times flagged offside in a Premier League match this season – 4◎ Chris Wood vs Fulham◎ Abdoulaye Doucouré vs Brighton◎ Dominic Calvert-Lewin vs Leicester◎ Kai Havertz vs Chelsea◉ Nicolas Jackson vs Wolves◉ Nicolas Jackson vs Liverpool#CHELIV pic.twitter.com/YydyYAW61d and his dangerous runs are going to become even more meaningful and hopefully lead to more goals he still obviously has time to work on that You will also start receiving the Star's free morning newsletter Carmelo Anthony answers a question during a Naismith Hall Fame Class of 2025 inductee news conference at the Final Four of the NCAA college basketball tournament Saturday Carmelo Anthony waves to fans during the first half of an NBA basketball game between the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics (AP) — Carmelo Anthony is joining NBC Sports as a studio analyst when NBC and Peacock begin their NBA coverage in October The announcement was made on Saturday afternoon during NBC’s coverage of the Kentucky Derby Anthony will be enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in September He was a 10-time NBA all-star and is currently 10th on the NBA all-time scoring list with 28,289 points NBC Sports said in a release that Anthony is expected to be in the studio one or more nights per week through the playoffs After leading Syracuse to an NCAA title in 2003 mostly with Denver and the New York Knicks AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account The views expressed here are the author's own A lot of talented children have probably been asked by a parent to entertain family and friends No big deal and a good way to get used to performing for others But when Jason Bonham was a small child and got called in to entertain the family friends he played his drums for could be anyone from Jimmy Page to some of the guys from the group Bad Company That's what happens when your father is drummer John Bonham one of the original members of the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin When he was 17 he was a member of the band Air Race The group signed a record contract with Atlantic Records who has marked a few places in music history himself has stepped in from time to time to help keep his father's memory alive Tuesday, 7:00 pmBedford-Katonah, NY Thursday, 9:00 amGreenwich, CT This production of Legally Blonde: The Musical is part of A Shared Stage Productions featuring an all-abilities cast that brings together actors this project is dedicated to fostering inclusion through theater creating a collaborative and enriching experience for participants of all abilities we aim to inspire friendships and meaningful connections Experience the shared stage at one of our four performances from May 23-25 all-moms lineup of showgirls ready to rock all things maternal to the grooves of a live band All right!Sunday Smoke Show is a recurring cabaret revue in the newly refurbished cigar lounge at Connecticut Cigar Company in downtown Stamford Get up close and personal with the finest performers from Connecticut New York City and elsewhere while enjoying craft cocktails and premium hand-rolled cigars in a warm intimate space sure to raise the temperature till everyone boils over PLUS we're getting saucy -- for this special occasion a tasting of Teremana Small Batch Tequila (founded by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is included with each ticket Performances by:Ella Blu (NYC)Isa Ardiente (Philadelphia)Ladybird Vixen (CT)Miss AuroraBoobRealis (NYC) and gather your friends to party like the Rat Pack with our delicious divas sure to light your fire Connecticut Ballet’s Spring 2025 season will celebrate female ballet choreographers with INSPIRING WOMEN a program of works exclusively commissioned by the company during its 44-year history This thrilling tribute to the artistry of female dancemakers will be performed Saturday May 10 at 7:30pm at The Palace Theatre in Stamford INSPIRING WOMEN will include a world premiere by Jolet Creary founder of EQuilibrium Dance Theatre & director of 860 Movement in Hartford The program also features revivals of Lila York’s 1990 piece Strays to Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto the 2021 work by former ballet mistress Eve Chan based on the famous Walt Whitman poem of the same name and former Connecticut Ballet dancer Carlyn Hudson’s 2022 humorous ballet A Piece That Might Never Happen About a Peace That Might Never Happen to music by Franz Schubert Artistic Director Brett Raphael pointed to the gender divide in the ballet world as an impetus for the company’s focus “It’s a statistical fact that women have been historically underrepresented as choreographers (and directors) in the repertoires of major ballet companies women made up only 27.4% of the choreographers commissioned by U.S Connecticut Ballet has always valued the work of talented female creators.. we celebrate their contribution and hold their work up for our audiences to appreciate.” Tickets are available for Saturday, May 10 at 7:30pm at The Palace Theatre (61 Atlantic Street, Stamford) palacestamford.org. For further information, visit connecticutballet.org Focusing on the struggles and burdens of war and the need for unity in the face of injustice this event will feature FCCs professional singers who will donate their time and talent to this cause Together our precious community can make a difference to the people of Ukraine Suggested donation: $20 per person (any amount will be accepted) Want to end your week with an amazing  bang Say goodbye to that work week responsibilities and stress Ladies grab your friends as were hosting a fun sexy dance workshop in jazz - burlesque with drinks and appetizers Will teach you some fun moves a mini routine while enjoying drinks and appetizers with area women Maybe a way to make friends connecting to other women So let loose -get creative and learn some fun moves No experience needed -why not dress up come have some fun What’s stopping to  let your creative spirit blossom Women empowering other women is an amazing thing Plus ending your week with something for you Your access to this service has been limited If you think you have been blocked in error contact the owner of this site for assistance ****You have attempted to log in with incorrect information too many times –although your information was correct and it blocked you—please contact the web team at [email protected] or go to https://cea.org/website-issues for assistance If you are a WordPress user with administrative privileges on this site please enter your email address in the box below and click "Send" You will then receive an email that helps you regain access Wordfence is a security plugin installed on over 5 million WordPress sites The owner of this site is using Wordfence to manage access to their site You can also read the documentation to learn about Wordfence's blocking tools or visit wordfence.com to learn more about Wordfence Click here to learn more: Documentation 6 May 2025 14:18:20 GMT.Your computer's time: document.write(new Date().toUTCString()); Figure 13 was updated to remove 1450 Washington Blvd Neither building is an office-to-residential conversion This publication is part of a broader series examining the potential of office-to-residential conversions across six U.S. case studies The project is part of a cooperative agreement with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the research team is composed of contributors from Gensler the remnants of its manufacturing base giving way to white-collar corporate headquarters fleeing Manhattan its small population has grown significantly with the city making up 40% of Connecticut’s population growth between 2000 and 2020 Stamford has allowed for significant development of multifamily housing its commercial core is roughly evenly split between housing and offices and the city has recently become majority-renter with most of its housing units in multifamily buildings and the broader regional context of a housing crisis makes office-to-residential conversions extremely attractive despite no significant government incentives seven such projects have gone ahead since 2020 Yet opposition from suburban homeowners to multifamily housing—and a bevy of legal and administrative tools to fight conversion projects—continue to hold back the city’s residential potential Affordable housing is a particularly vital need considering the high share of housing-cost-burdened households in the area Today, Stamford is home to a cluster of white-collar corporate headquarters, many of which moved to Stamford from Manhattan, located only one Metro-North express stop away. Stamford began to attract corporate headquarters in the 1960s, when it undertook a major urban renewal development effort demolishing its old downtown and replacing it with a mall and office buildings Stamford bet that it could lure companies from New York City with the promise of cheaper and more flexible office space and a ready supply of executives residing in wealthy neighboring residential communities such as Darien and Greenwich Today, Stamford incorporates characteristic features of a city such as highly accessible industrial facilities, high-rise offices, and multifamily properties, alongside typical suburban single-family zoning (which still covers 82.4% of the city’s land) The city is activated with 14 public and private marinas including sandy beaches at Cove Island Park Stamford has the second-largest grand list (property tax base) by assessed value in the state of Connecticut The aggregate Stamford property tax base is stronger than ever having grown 14.9% in real terms between 2012 and 2022 While commercial real estate (office and retail) value on the grand list has declined 10.3% over that period residential growth (both existing value and new product) has more than made up for these losses multifamily housing has become a critical component of Stamford’s tax base growing from 6.5% of the taxable grand list in 2012 to 14.1% in 2022 Where the full city boundary covers 37.6 square miles between the Long Island Sound and the Connecticut-New York border the commercial core—the unit of analysis for our study—is a mixed-use 1.3-square-mile region including the city’s downtown and burgeoning South End district (Figure 2) The commercial core is bisected by Interstate 95 and the Northeast Rail Corridor which serves the central Stamford Transportation Center Large and newer office buildings tend to have large floor plates and form a corridor along I-95 and smaller and older buildings are largely clustered in the northern section of the commercial core Multifamily units are scattered throughout the commercial core though there is a notable cluster in the South End near the waterfront which has grown rapidly over the past two decades through major development projects such as Harbor Point With 173 office buildings totaling 11.6 million square feet (Figure 3) and 116 multifamily buildings with 12,300 units (Figure 4) the Stamford commercial core has an equal share of office and multifamily rental square footage (Figure 5) The commercial core has the highest share of multifamily space relative to office out of any of our six case study cities The office market in the Stamford commercial core has struggled for over a decade while residential demand has boomed given chronic regional housing shortages with offices experiencing additional vacancy (particularly in Class B and C buildings) Inflation-adjusted gross rents for offices in the commercial core grew at a slow rate in the years leading up to the pandemic while declining in the regional office market inflation-adjusted rents have declined at a rate of 3% per year in the commercial core and 3.5% per year throughout the region (Figure 7) The growth in the multifamily market has been caused, in part, by growing pressure within the tri-state region housing market. The housing gap in the region grew from 494,000 units to 541,000 units between 2012 and 2023 Stamford has captured some of the excess demand from the New York City market offering a nearby alternative for urban living vacancy rates are at 5%—the lowest they have been in the past 10 years (Figure 11) Stamford’s commercial core is much more diverse than the city as a whole and state of Connecticut Fifty-four percent of the commercial core population is people of color compared to 48% of the city population and 30% of the state population The commercial core is 25% Latino or Hispanic—a slightly lower proportion than the city but significantly higher than the state’s proportion of 17% Stamford’s commercial core also has a higher poverty rate than the state: 13.5% of commercial core residents live below the poverty line compared to just 9.9% across the city and state (Table 2) Source: Brookings analysis of ACS 2022 5-year estimates  Note: Poverty rate used here is defined as the share of people in housing units Work prepared by The Brookings Institution and Eckholm Studios as part of a cooperative agreement with the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development the city of Stamford has initiated some modest text amendments to its zoning ordinance to further streamline the development review process for office-to-residential conversions a number of ambitious bills have been introduced to make policy and financial changes that would ease or promote office-to-residential conversions but most have not passed the legislature due to resistance from residents concerned about the addition of multifamily units in low-density residential areas the demand for housing in Stamford remains so immense that seven conversions over 50,000 square feet have moved ahead since 2020 Pragmatic observers of Stamford’s market fundamentals and fiscal picture are highly aware of the unique importance of office-to-residential development low-density office parks with mid- to high-rise housing However, across the city, office-to-residential conversion remains controversial in many of Stamford’s more suburban quarters One recent proposal to replace a low-rise office park complex with apartments has become ensnared in litigation while a neighboring proposal faces vocal resident opposition Even office-to-residential proponents acknowledge that there are real negative traffic impacts related to growth outside the downtown The fight is over whether these impacts can be avoided or not given population growth and whether these impacts are truly worse than the alternative which is endlessly bidding up the cost of housing in Stamford we're still stuck in the mindset that commercial is a net positive the right kind of residential can be a replacement for the commercial in a way that continues to deflect away from the single-family burden One reason for the popularity of special permits to convert offices into housing compared to other pathways is that they cannot be appealed by petitioners The board of representatives is…anti-development You can’t get good zoning board members appointed Stamford has some zones that allow office-to-residential conversions by-right. Still, the permitted densities are relatively low, so the vast majority of office-to-residential conversions in Stamford occur through a special permit process outlined in Section 10.H and 10.I of the city’s zoning regulations This process involves submitting an application to the planning department (Land Use Bureau) which is followed by a 35-day referral period in which the application is reviewed by that department as well as other agencies such as the traffic bureau and planning board the application can be placed on a zoning board agenda for a public hearing including the referral period and zoning board hearing zoning text amendments to further streamline the special permit process and reduce affordability requirements for conversion projects are under consideration by the zoning board how these approaches can scale to the magnitude of the housing crisis without significant cooperation from the board of representatives which is largely resistant to new multifamily development activity it is worth nothing that Stamford is a waterfront city and many parcels are in more than one category of flood zone Buildings that have very minimal footprints (for example as little as five square feet) in a flood zone may be prohibited from converting to multifamily residential and there is no standard federal-level administrative procedure to request exemptions there are very few public tools available for developers to finance office-to-residential conversions (Table 3) While Connecticut has a historic preservation tax credit it is limited in scope relative to the credits many peer states offer financing is not a significant barrier to office-to-residential conversion in Stamford Rent growth is sufficiently high to offset construction costs and a number of experienced regional developers have made projects work without any form of public subsidy The main obstacle to future office-to-residential conversion in Stamford is the political and policy climate described above—not underlying project economics CT Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Note: Work prepared by The Brookings Institution Despite political concerns about new multifamily housing at least seven office-to-residential conversion projects have been completed since March 15 and at least two projects are in the planning process (Figure 13) this waterfront office is in the planning process for conversion into 52 residential units (Table 4) Despite a simple and straightforward textbook capital stack (Table 5) the project has been stalled for years as the developer navigated flood zone regulations that added millions in extra costs to address Source: Authors’ analysis of CoStar real estate market data and interviews with local stakeholders Source: Authors’ interviews with local stakeholders Empire Residential purchased and converted this downtown historic building into 27 apartment units The building was originally built as a hotel in 1915 and later turned into 41,000 square feet of office space in the 1980s and fifth floors into apartments while keeping the ground floor as retail (Table 6) Empire Residential financed this conversion with a traditional mix of construction debt and developer equity (Table 7) Source: Authors’ interviews with local stakeholders  We assessed the architectural conversion viability of 25 high-vacancy buildings in Stamford we used CoStar data to identify buildings with vacancy rates in excess of 20% The CoStar data were then triangulated with input from qualitative interviews about potential conversion candidates and additional factors such as year built and office class in order to identify the buildings best suited to make up a representative set of properties for architectural conversion viability analysis three buildings were selected for detailed architectural studies based on results from the initial analysis and input from interview participants Buildings were assigned a percentage score to denote their architectural compatibility for conversion and grouped into the following categories:  From the analysis, we then projected out the number of units that would be created by converting all the scored buildings. We also projected the greenhouse gas savings associated with unit creation via conversion rather than new build activity. A full explanation of our calculation methodology is included in Appendix A.   13 buildings account for 51% of the total building area analyzed the average compatibility score of the buildings studied in Stamford is slightly higher than the average score of the 1,400-plus buildings Gensler has studied While most of the buildings have the desired rectangular form as unit planning becomes more challenging and floor plate efficiency may be reduced Floor plate size and core-to-window depth varied across buildings had large floor plates and core-to-window depths making it difficult to utilize the deep space for rentable area had smaller floor plates and shallow core-to-window depths which could result in a constrained unit mix Good walkability and connectivity through public transport such as trains and ferries positively impacted the scores of all buildings analyzed and entertainment venues positively impacted scores while the lack of schools downtown within walking distance was a negative factor Facade types also impacted the overall scores variably Stamford is dominated by buildings with ribbon windows and curtain facades which generally score lower as they have an elevated chance of needing replacement Curtain wall facades were observed in buildings constructed after the 1970s such as 1 Landmark Square and 281 Tresser Blvd is located centrally at the intersection of Atlantic Street and Tresser Boulevard it is a 16-story structure with a gross area of 502,886 square feet The building features a floor plate composed of two overlapping rectangular forms with a central core Although the centrally located deep spaces cannot be used for units the floor plate achieves a reasonable level of efficiency and yields units close to market size (total yield in Table 8 A developer could utilize the deep spaces without direct access to natural light for amenities and/or storage provides excellent access to views and daylight The ground floor and mezzanine area are most likely suitable for retail with part of the ground floor allocated to the residential lobby and service areas 1600 Summer Street sits on the northern edge of downtown Stamford at the intersection of Summer Street and Fourth Street it is a six-story structure with a gross area of 240,466 square feet The building features a rectangular form with a central core and a relatively large floor plate Although the core-to-window depth is larger than ideal (creating some deep spaces unsuitable for units) the rectangular form facilitates systematic unit planning resulting in a reasonable level of floor plate efficiency (Figure 16) A developer could use the deep spaces without direct access to natural light for amenities or storage Even the ground floor can be converted to residential use with the introduction of garden-style units sits on the northern edge of downtown Stamford near the intersection of Summer Street and Oak Street it is a four-story structure with a gross area of 50,445 square feet The building features a rectangular floor plate with two circulation cores at either end and an almost ideal floor plate size A developer could introduce a double-loaded corridor connecting the two cores which allows for good floor plate efficiency (Figure 17) Two vertical shafts at the center of the floor plate can be retained for mechanical risers and a developer could consider the interstitial space between them for amenity or storage use The majority of the façade consists of a curtain wall with the top floor featuring a band of ribbon windows which increases the risk of a costly façade replacement All sides provide good access to views and daylight with part of it allocated to the residential lobby and service areas Stamford remains in very high demand as a place to live with extremely strong fundamentals for quality of life The disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic only strengthened this demand Data from cell phone location-tracking technologies indicate that estimated unique visits to Stamford on a typical Thursday in fall 2023 are up over 20% from the fall 2019 level (Table 11) this surge of demand means that housing affordability for both renters and owners in Stamford has become an existential crisis We don't have starter homes in Stamford anymore Office-to-residential conversions represent a rare opportunity to introduce multifamily housing supply in a state known for its detached single-family housing stock Such conversions neutralize one of the primary concerns about growth—parking—because residential conversion is typically a significant reduction in people per square foot within a building and office buildings therefore have far more parking than they need to accommodate residential use and even a place as overburdened with underperforming office product as Stamford does not have broad consensus that residential conversion is an attractive solution Department of Housing and Urban Development under a cooperative agreement The authors thank Hanna Love for her 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