When the first resident of The Lofts moved in four years ago, it wasn’t the lackluster surroundings of the South End apartment building — converted from a shell of the former Yale & Towne factory — that sealed the lease deal.
Quite a different view awaits the first inhabitant of the new Vault Apartments — one block over — scheduled for Tuesday.
In a figurative sense, developer Building and Land Technology comes full circle this week, opening the last of four apartment residences planned for the 20-acre site of Yale & Towne, once the city’s largest employer.
In the literal sense, the job is only half done, with the original master plan hammered out by BLT, its predecessor developer and the city of Stamford envisioning 4,000 residential units in all.
