Shortly after Waterbury proclaimed the Brass Mill Centre, life was indeed being slowly sucked from Wolcott Street. Wolcott Street has plenty of history, and it shows. Kmart and it's grocery subsidiary sit beside each other, since widowed. ![]() Jo-Ann Fabrics operating out of a former Kmart Foods a now defunct grocery subsidiary of Kmart stores. Little Caesars, a former companion to most Kmart stores, purged post Sears merger due to their own financial woes. Needless to say, the mall closed it’s doors shortly after business moved a lot of Wolcott Street traffic to up the road to the new blossoming mall.Ī visible Little Caesar's label scar. Formerly home to the Naugatuck Valley Mall a smaller enclosed mall which predates the Fall 1997-built Brass Mill Centre, essentially luring all it’s anchors (Sears and Filene's) and leaving it, like most one-level malls in a super-regional mall area, near dead. But Wolcott Street, along CT-69, is a fascinating place to see a spotted retail evolution caused by those changing times caused by the Brass Mill Centre. While I’ve been cautioned and often preferred to stay away from the Brass Mill Centre, due it’s unsavory area, or any of the dilapidated neighborhoods for that matter. It’s a bummer and I cannot wait until it’s over so we can resume progression on our regular projects here at The Caldor Rainbow.īeing the anxious one I am, I've violated my own tenant in deciding to deeper explore a retail strip I’ve been fascinated with for a while now Wolcott Street in Waterbury. As a result, malls are decked with people and decorations for Christmas, there are more obtrusives cars, people, and importantly security counter-measures. Since it’s the single most heavy shopping season of the year, I’ve decided that my main focus, anything retail, is in focus by too many others this holiday shopping season. Over the month of December, I’ve kind of made a deal with myself: wait until at least a week or two after the new year to tackle some projects on the radar.
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