A 25.5-acre assemblage of three parcels — 2 and 3 Albany Turnpike in Canton and 29 West Avon Road in Avon — is listed for $6.29 million by Amodio & Co. Real Estate, which has branded the offering "The Rose Ridge Collection." The parcels are owned by LLCs controlled by Peter, Andrew and James Rose. The Canton side sits in the town's East Gateway Design Village District, which permits retail, restaurants, offices, hotels and recreation uses, plus multifamily housing subject to requirements including a business component covering at least 15% of the project footprint and 15% income-restricted units. The Avon parcel is zoned R-40 residential — no general retail or restaurant use there. The listing pitches possibilities from a big-box anchor to retail pads with medical office fronting Route 44 and townhomes or apartments behind, explicitly mirroring the large mixed-use development directly across the corridor.
What it means for the street: this is the clearest signal yet of where Canton-Avon commercial growth goes next. The zoning on the Canton side is already written to force exactly the mixed commercial-plus-housing pattern towns across Connecticut have been converging on, and the marketing language leans on proximity to The Shops at Farmington Valley and the corridor's household incomes. Whatever gets approved here — a single big-box tenant, medical office, or housing-heavy mixed use — will change traffic patterns and trade areas for every business on Route 44. Owners in the corridor should watch the coming application cycle closely; the buyer's first filing will tell you what the next decade of that stretch looks like.