DANBURY — Proprietors of a 102-calendar year-aged horse farm have presented to sell their residence to the metropolis for open up area — a prospect that local officers say could allow for for schooling alternatives or even extend close by parks.
If accepted, the deal would include things like a 5-calendar year lease-back again strategy that would make it possible for Ed and Lucy Prybylski to preserve jogging the Satisfied Trails Farm for another four to five a long time. The pair introduced a “negotiable” inquiring rate of $1.75 million.
“I sense strongly that this would be a terrific financial investment for the town,” Ed Prybylski mentioned Thursday when an hod committee of the Metropolis Council talked about the proposal. “We have experienced realtors occur to us with people today who want to invest in our farm. In our hearts we think it is crucial it to be in the fingers of the city so we can be a component of it.”
Associates at the committee conference, like Metropolis Council President Vinny DiGilio and Mayor Dean Esposito, have been unanimously in favor of pursuing the house on 36 Mountainville Highway, adjacent to Rogers Park, Tarrywile Park and the Old Quarry Character Heart.
“I’ve acknowledged Ed my complete everyday living, I grew up on Mountainville Street,” Espositio stated. “I played on their house as a child. When Ed and Lucy approached me to have the town buy the property, I considered it was a property run for us.”
The Prybylskis said they’ve been contemplating offering the assets to the city the past yr and imagine this is the ideal time in their lives to get it performed.
“I would volunteer to create applications for use of the home for the metropolis,” Ed Prybylski reported. “You could broaden the Nature Center that is at the rear of us or grow on Rogers Park. In the summer time Rogers Park is packed and it desires space for growth for our little ones, for the animals and out of doors actions. There are so many alternatives.”
Esposito and DiGilio called the land acquisition a acquire-get for the town.
“There is a great deal of likely with this assets,” Esposito said. “You acquire a quick stroll on the house and you assume you are in upstate New York. You can maintain it as a farm with the driving rink there and also use it for instructional uses. We should not wait starting negotiations on this assets. We should just take it to the next amount and get some appraisals done and items like that to get this into our possession.”
Ed Prybylski’s grandparents ordered the Mountainville Highway farm in 1921 and grew vegetables. The couple has owned it for 37 decades, purchasing it from Ed Prybylski’s mom and dad and turning it into a 16-acre horse farm that has house to board as quite a few as 42 horses. The couple teaches lessons to riders and trains horses.
Danbury Finance Director Dan Garrett stated the city has funding in put to acquire the assets. He mentioned the 1st move would be to research likely point out and federal grants to offset the cost.
Between the opportunity utilizes for the city instructed at the conference ended up growing the close by parks, holding the horse farm, keeping educational systems for youth (farming, horticulture and forestry), and presenting older instructional utilization by partnering with Western Connecticut State’s science department and vet-tech software.
DiGilio explained the ad hoc committee’s report would be submitted to the full Town Council at its future meeting. At the time negotiations are performed among the mayor’s business and the sellers and there is one thing tangible in place it will be offered to the full Metropolis Council.
“This residence is a great healthy for us,” DiGilio reported. “We have alternatives and options when it comes to funding. This is very good for the city and fantastic for our citizens.”
