If you’re holding your breath waiting for the return of the Compo Acres paint palette — first reported in Wednesday’s “06880” — you can exhale.
Unfortunately.
Alert “06880” reader Suzanne Sherman Propp tracked down the property owner (Equity One in New York City), and the man responsible for the Westport shopping center property (Glenn Wilson, Northeast Regional Manager).
She wrote:
Hi! My name is Suzanne Sherman Propp and I’ve lived in Westport since 1966. I’ve always been a huge fan of the light blue Compo Acres Sign in the shape of a paint palette that was leaning up against the tree at the corner of the Post Road and Compo Road North. Can you tell me what happened to it?
His one-sentence reply:
We had that replaced and I believe it was thrown out.
Equity One’s tagline is “improving retail real estate in urban communities.”
Suburban communities — not so much.
The Compo Acres paint palette is gone…
…but we do have this huge granite slab not far away.
We had that replaced and I believe it was thrown out.
– Suzanne Sherman Propp
- Suzanne Sherman Propp