Redevelopment of the blighted Marisa’s restaurant in Trumbull is finally underway.
“We are excited to make it all happen,” said developer Michael Cerreta, owner of Bridgeport-based Cerreta Builders, which is transforming the once-popular eatery building at 6540 Main St. into a new 16,000 commercial plaza.
Plans to revitalize the deteriorating building have been roughly two years in the making, but Cerreta and town officials broke ground on the site Thursday after receiving the final approvals from Trumbull’s planning and zoning commission a week earlier.
With site work already underway, Cerreta said he expects a 14-month build for the project, which will feature roughly eight tenants, including an anchor restaurant.
The Bridgeport developer said he is already in talks with potential tenants. The site already has an operating Dunkin’ Donuts next to the vacant restaurant space, which developers plan to keep in the final mix.
The new project will be the latest addition to Cerreta Builder’s holdings in Trumbull. The group also owns and renovated the plaza near the Marisa’s site, which is home to the Mex on Main restaurant and several other tenants.
“We’re happy because next door we want to tie this together,” Cerreta said. “Finally, the last marquee piece is here to tie it all in.”
The site was home to Marisa’s for almost two decades before the Marini family converted it into the Cast Iron Chop Shop in 2016. The restaurant relocated to New Haven the following year after developing its own buzz.
Since then the restaurant space has remained vacant.
The project is much smaller than original plans, which called for 24,000 square feet of commercial space....
from Business https://www.ctpost.com/business/article/Former-Marisa-s-restaurant-shopping-center-14056642.php
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